throw another bear in the canoe

Just for the record, Bear wrote all the sex scenes.

And she knows it.

Even the ones in your books.

Oh, really, now. Faskinatin'.

Especially the ones I haven't written yet.

That goes without saying.

Ok, after reading the review-by-dad, I think I really need to make a B&N run to get Blood and Iron. I like complex, I like challenging, and damnit, that sounds both.

I think that, like stepping on the biggest, baddest, tallest, fastest roller coaster, I'm looking forward to one hell of a ride.

Conveniently!

You can read the first three chapters at my website.

http://www.elizabethbear.com/promethean.html

Done ...and now, with keys in hand, I'm on my way to B&N.

Sometimes my love of books is a pain in the ass *grin*.

Hee. We are wicked and tricksy, we authors.

"And after 9/11 the point of view of anyone or anything desrtoying New York and hurting New Yorkers is simply unacceptable to me!"

Says a reader who lives in... Missouri.

...

I know, I know. Barrel, fish, hand grenade, unsportsmanlike. I'll leave her alone.

Oddly enough, I grew up within a hundred miles of the city, and my editor is a lifelong Manhattanite...

Ha-hah! I just finished B&I Tuesday (haven't had time to write a review yet) and I wondered if anyone had flipped out about that, (I'm sure some people would, a few of them prolly read fantasy, and a few of those might stumble on this book, was the thinking). (oooh, for free publicity, send a copy of just the ending, pretending to be someone who hates it, to the likely-to-be-outraged personality of your choice; am leaving out details or examples so I don't accidentally start another political argument)

Oh, yeah. Also, I get a lot of defensive reactions from people who would prefer a nice binary worldview.

WHAT?! You mean the world isn't all black and white?!

ZOMG WTF BBQ!

*wrist to forehead* "Rhett, wherever shall I go? Whatever shall I do? Whatever will become of me? The world is not all black and white!"

"No, Scarlett, there's a whole Pantone chart of colors out there. Get over it and go on with your life. I have."

That's also funny, 'cause I certainly see *some* things in more or less "good and evil" terms (the fear that someone will link me w/well-known public figures who use those terms overmuch and inappropriately notwithstanding), and think sometimes I do indeed know w/reasonable certainty, that my side is right, and nothing about Blood and Iron made me particularly defensive. Not saying I agreed w/all the philosophy expressed, but . . . ::shrugs:: .

I do want to reread the last 60 pages or so before commenting further, cause by that point I was determined to finish and find out what happened, and there was a lot that really needed thinking over rather than hurrying through.

(Oh, and it will be a positive review; I was gonna not say this and hopefully leave you wondering for a couple of days, assuming I get to it faster than my House of Chains review I talked about doing a month ago, but my conscious got the better of my sense of mischief, dammit.)

I only sweat the Publisher's Weekly and Booklist reviews.

I don't write books so people can agree with them. Hell, if I write books that agree with themselves, I'm doing something wrong. You're cool.

She's entitled to her opinion. *g*