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earlgreytea68 announced that she published her first book. It's here. Also there's a free prequel novella for those who want to dip their toes in first.


Three things struck me after reading the book:

1) It's... quite enjoyable? I got the book purely on the strength of earlgreytea68's fanfic (and also that the novella was sufficiently intriguing) but fanfic is very different from original fiction. It's a good surprise and I'm interested in reading the sequel.

2) The teenage protagonist; the urban fantasy; young love; searching for acceptance/self-identity; getting powerful; saving the world. Um, yes. I'm all for that. But there's a lot of that. Everywhere.

3) It's almost too easy to buy books online? I used to be the sort who spent hours browsing in a bookstore. (I don't like small bookstores all that much - perhaps I look naturally shifty and someone is always watching or bothering or questioning me - and stop chatting to me; give me Kinokuniya any day, where I can go from Serious Books to histories to knitting books to manga, from English to Japanese to Chinese books.)

Nowadays I don't have as much time to spend in bookstores, and my book-buying has reduced significantly too. I do download free Kindle books, but it's always been, hm, it's like downloading from Gutenburg. The previous time I bought ebooks from Amazon, it was Mary Renault's Alexander the Great books and I thought about it for a few days and even checked local bookshops to see if they had a physical copy. (They did not.)

This time I simply bought it without any agonising. And then it was on my Kindle. (Just like all the times I put fanfic on my Kindle.) I can see how tempting it will be, one day to just buy and buy and then it's all in your Kindle (or your cloud account or something) and then you have bookshelves full of books you bought ten years ago and no physical sign of the books you bought last week. Unexpected development.


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Fic:

Knight Magic, Sherlock/Harry Potter merged/crossover, John/Sherlock, by suitesamba.

Paparazzo, Tony Stark/Peter Parker, Iron Man/Spider-Man crossover, by basingstoke. And the sequel Tabloid