The Opposite Bastard (New Writing)

Macmillan New Writing. 22 February N/A The Opposite Bastard is a dark comedy of manners. An uproarious and moving commentary.
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For the time being Kate and Andrea are working on their own new independent investigation company, and as "luck" will have it, Andrea has been hired to investigate some deaths at a location which Raphael is overseeing. And the fun goes from there. Andrea's narrative voice is not that dissimilar from Kate's, which makes sense since they're not that different when you get down to the basics. And I'm not complaining. From that regard it brought some good continuity to the narrative style already present in the series.

Andrea is a bit more unstable and emotionally expressive though, and more trigger happy I don't recall as much as I'd like since I read this 4 years ago the above written back then as well , but I'll just say that I loved this novel. I thought the first half was stronger though, as Andrea was unhinged, kicking ass and taking names, including some sequences that are right at the top of my favorites in the whole Kate Daniels series.

I'll say though that I hate Raphael with a passion, not only his personality and his actions, but the actual character. More than that I hated how he influenced Andrea and changed her. There's a big contrast, at least to me, of the coolness and badassness when Andrea is by herself doing her thing, and her lesser form she somehow transforms into when Raphael is around.

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This was a big part of why I preferred the first half of the novel, since the later part featured their dynamic in a much more pronounced manner. Even more so when you compare it to the relationship of Kate and Curran, who are awesome by themselves but just as good if not better when they share a scene. Needless to say, Raphael has been on my list of characters that need to die since his introduction.

Andrea is a good enough character to surpass these perceived limitations, and I'll certainly welcome another story about her.


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We managed to witness this world through a different set of circumstances, through a different character's eyes with different wants, worries, and challenges. That alone was worth the ticket of admission, but the novel satisfied more than that while retaining the formula that has worked so well and made Kate Daniels the success it's been. Well, that's all I have for you guys.

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Well of course, how about a signed copy! Posted by Bastard at 8: Each city has its own music. I mean that literally—blues and hip hop and jazz and rock differ from town to town—but also figuratively. Cities have different rhythms, different styles of driving, different prides and language patterns. Writing urban fantasy is at its best an exercise in writing the city's music, transcribing its crazycool dreams and sometimes nightmares into monsters, magic, and mayhem.

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That's difficult enough for cities that actually exist, places a person can walk around and breathe and come to know. New York's real; you can taste it like wine on your tongue. Boston you shoot more than sample. London rolls smoky in the mouth. Beijing you drink like baijiu: The country kills you. It's possible, I mean, to know a real city. But I had to go set my books in a world that's not Earth.

I did that for good reasons—I wanted to depict a society where magic is woven through life, rather than Something Scary Out There. I imagined a city, and built it. I couldn't just go there to walk around. So, for the next book, why not go to the opposite extreme?

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Which meant a horizontal city, a city that sprawled, a city of low roofs and occasional massive buildings, a city of heat and open space. My wife's from Los Angeles, so I'd visited before, and, Tennessee boy as I am at heart, the place bowled me over with difference; Beijing did the same when I lived there. And both cities had trouble with water, which fed into ideas I'd been worrying over about debt and dependency. So far, so good. I started paying more attention to Los Angeles when I visited, and I dredged up old memories of Beijing, some pleasant.

I stole stuff wholesale, reconfigured, warped, revised. Cackled, sometimes, to myself, when I thought no one could hear. What can I say? I wrote this book in stolen half hours when any reasonable person would have been sleeping. If you can't cackle at your own work at one o'clock in the morning before a long day at the office, when, I ask, are you allowed to so cackle?

And at the end of all that cackling and warping and cutting and rearranging, I found myself with a city that owned its own rhythm, and its own horror. A city in which my characters could live—which Caleb and his friends could love, hate, and want to defend. Now I have something to destroy. You can buy Two Serpents Rise at: Monday, October 28, Guest Post: And so do a lot of my characters. I think initially I got it from my mother.

A lot of kids swear for the forbidden aspect but as I grew older it stuck with me. But the fact is, words have power. For a long time, this word made me uncomfortable. I know many women who will say anything but that word. It carries a lot of baggage. When used by certain people in certain circumstances, at the least it feels dismissive and at worst threatening. I respect those who still refuse to use it, but for me, it was important to reclaim cunt.

To say it over and over and over until it stopped sounding shocking, to use it and take the power from it. And that ends up in my writing. Although I throw around a lot of curse words in my work, I tend to choose them with care. Different characters will lean toward different words. For Peri in Lineage , a mercenary, she tends toward plain, harsh language like fuck, cocksucker, occasionally cunt.

Ryann in Hunter is something else entirely: Zara in Bloodlines and Exhumed is among my favourites, because she simply enjoys the words. Including the forbidden c-word. I blinked, just in case I missed some look of irony but nope, he was serious. And it still makes me giggle. But all of that is subjective. You know what word draws me out of books? Does this language put some people off of my books? You might very well be my grandfather.

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My grandfather is ninety-nine years old and insists that I should cut the swearing out of my books as none of the popular writers meaning female popular writers have that level of cursing in their work. So I might always wallow in obscurity because of my cunty fucking language. Posted by Bastard at When I first saw Tim Marquitz's call for stories for Manifesto: UF , I read it and thought I couldn't possibly write an urban fantasy short story.

I mean, what did I know about the genre? I was totally intimidated by the blurb: This is our manifesto How could I help define a genre I didn't understand at all? Were they looking for something like Ilona Andrews's Kate Daniels series? Alex Bledsoe's Tufa series? Clive Barker's Cabal stories?

Romance, angels, demons, fairies, and cities? I got out of there before my brain exploded. Sometimes I overthink things and that is precisely what I did with the Manifesto anthology. Other projects took my attention and I more or less forgot about the anthology until my little message bar popped up on Facebook one evening and it was Tim. He offered me several very broad suggestions, and I realized that I might be able to write something for him. I looked at the guidelines again. The word "badass" kept jumping out at me.

I realigned my thinking and put urban fantasy in the context of badass. I had an idea for a traditional fantasy story, but I thought that the story could work just as well in the present day. I reshaped the background and the characters to write "Naked the Night Sings. I allowed convention to fall by the wayside and let the story run free. When I was done, I saw that my story slid closer to Barker's style of badass--urban fantasy mixed with horror. Definitions and categories are utilized by marketing and bookstores to show people where to look for the stories that they like.

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