il signore della foresta

[sergebroom]

"Va oltre qualsiasi cosa potessi immaginare," disse Theodora, con gli occhi castani che brillavano.

Cordelia Hardcastle strinse il braccio della cugina e sorrise, anche se non condivideva completamente il suo entusiasmo nei confronti delle numerose attrative a disposizione dei privilegiati visitatori del Giardino Zoologico di Regent's Park.

What is this? you may be wondering. A few days ago, Sue's publisher sent her a few copies of their Italian edition of Lord of the Beasts. For some reason, they decided to use the title from another of Sue's novels, The Forest Lord, of which Beasts is an offshoot. Also, they published it, not as a romance novel, but as a fantasy. True, it is a fantasy novel, but it's interesting that they seem to have thought it'd do better this way.

"It is quite beyond anything I had imagined," Theodora said, brown eyes sparkling in her plain and honest face.

Cordelia Hardcastle squeezed her cousin's arm and smiled, though she could not entirely share Theodora's fascination with the many diversions available to the privileged visitors of the Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park.

Comments

[sajia.livejournal.com]

Well, I read it (though mislaid it), and I feel Susan could do better than the romance ghetto. To be honest it felt more like a treatise on animal rights than a bodice-ripper, and I mean that in a good way.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

It's not surprising because Sue comes from an F/SF background. She has written two novels in a fantasy series that she called The Stone God. It was in the Luna imprint, which aimed to attract F/SF readers, but, since it was put out by Harlequin, booksellers tended to put the books in the romance section. The fantasy readers couldn't find them. That plus the lack of any advertising in places like Locus led to the failure of the whole imprint.

But...

Sue has had two Kit & Olivia short stories published in anthologies (one of which also had a story by Making Light's Jim Macdonald). They are murder mysteries set in a late-19th Century Europe where magic works. She's hoping to start work on a full-length novel some time next year.

"Murder Entailed"
http://www.susankrinard.com/murder.htm

"...Or Forever Hold Your Peace"
http://www.susankrinard.com/OrForeverHoldYourPeace.htm

[readinggeek451]

Luna's still around. I tend to shelve their books in our F/SF section, not general fiction (where the romances are) because they "read" as F/SF to me, not romance.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

That's because you know your stuff. The Borders store we frequent the most did put them in the F/SF section, but only because we pointed out where the books really should go. That's one single store. I expect that this inappropriate shelving occurred almost everywhere else in North-America for most of Luna's authors, which led to something of a blood bath, and to a severely attenuated Luna imprint.

Mind you, People like Catherine Asaro and Mercedès Lackey didn't have that problem because they are associated with F/SF, not romance.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

You're not showing us the whole cover of the Italian edition?

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Alas, I don't have it scanned. Anyway, while it's nice, it's pretty standard, showing a very green and very thick forest, with some stone steps snaking up thru the woods, and the foreground shows a woman in profile.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

What diversions are available to the privileged visitors to the London Zoo? (I was last there in 1968, when the great attraction was the polar bear cub Pipaluk.)

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

The story is set in the 19th Century so I expect that the diversions that you encountered in 1968 were a bit different. Or were you around back then too?

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

My time machine is broken, alas.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

What about extraordinary longevity?

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Alas, no.