Miranda Phipps

I’m trying to keep my pinky toe in the writing world.  It’s been tough the past few weeks due to work becoming busier again.  (Usually there’s a bit of whining from me when there are more hours than I want, but not these days with many employers letting people go.  I’m glad to be earning my keep–and my weekly paycheck–so I find myself saying yes ma’am, I’ll certainly take that project.)

I did manage to inhale Elizabeth Hoyt’s latest:  To Beguile a Beast.  The bits told in Abby’s point of view were especially well done, I thought. 

I never quite got used to the hero’s singular “eye” looking at the heroine.  Completely accurate of course and very much a product of my own, difficult to break, readerly assumptions.

A lovely cover, too.  Hoyt’s really been lucky in her past few covers–great art and delectable colors.  Some people get worked up about the whole half head thing, but I far prefer to see a victim of the art department’s guillotine than some raggedy mulleted professional wrestler type.

I also dove into Teresa Medeiros latest release.   (Target had so many of my favorite authors at 25% off!  Woot!) 

I somehow missed her last historical (Some Like it Wicked), so my most recent experience with her writing was her venture into vampire-land.  Those were much darker books, and it was fun to be lightly delighted by Medeiros again.  This reminds me that I must now go back and read those vampire books having watched Buffy.  I have a feeling that Adrian (was Adrian the vampire broher?–I think so) may bear some resemblance to Spike, and I’d love to see Spike gain his HEA if only vicariously.

In terms of my own writing, Margie Lawson’s keeping me busy with her many rhetorical devices.  My reward?  Understanding what Neil Gaiman meant when he referred to lilotes in his journal the other day.  Miranda scores!  Now just to use it in my own writing.