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[mistymassey]

Today in 1959, a small plane carrying Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens crashed. The day became known as the Day the Music Died, and gave Don McLean the perfect line for a song.

Now that you're all depressed, cheer up - there's good readin' out there for you! As I mentioned yesterday, Mad Kestrel makes her mass market appearance in stores. But that's not all!! My pal David B Coe has a book making its mass market debut today, too! The Sorcerer's Plague, Book One of David's Blood of the Southlands, is out there, just waiting to go home with some worthy reader.

So what are you guys waiting for? It's going to be cold tonight - perfect night for reading!

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[arhyalon.livejournal.com]

Hey!

So, last night, I finally had a free half an hour. I broke out the copy of Mad Kestrel that I got for Christmas and sat down with it. When I got to page twenty, I started laughing. I had not realized that Kestrel had music related wind powers. She and Miranda should get together (They'd either get along great or hate each other.) In the earlier versions of the book, Miranda did a lot of just whistling for the wind...prearranged songs she had set up but I took that out to make the flute more important. She can still do it...it just doesn't appear in the book.

Anyway, I'm two chapters in and really enjoying it. Hoping to get some more reading time tonight!

[madkestrel.livejournal.com]

You know, maybe we could co-write a crossover short story one of these days....

*grin*

[arhyalon.livejournal.com]

While it is only just barely mentioned in the novels, Prospero's house does stretch into a number of other dimensions. (Miranda was an Amber roleplaying character before she moved into her own book.) So, there is no reason that she and her brothers could not walk out into Kestrel's world and run into her. ;-)

I almost wrote a Prospero pirate story with these guys once. It probably would not have had Miranda in it, though, as she would not have been much into the pirate scene. But some of her brothers sailed with Frances Drake as well as during the Buccaneer period.

We'll have to keep the idea in mind. Maybe some good milieu will come along!

[arhyalon.livejournal.com]

One additional comment: I was trying to figure out what Miranda would think of Kestrel and I had the following funny thought: If Miranda thought Kestrel was a human being, she might be annoyed to share mastery of the winds and she'd think her all the wrong class. But if she thought Kestrel was a supernatural creature, she'd like her just fine. She expects supernatural creatures to be strange. ;-)

(I should specify,pre-book Miranda. By the time the series is over, she's changed a bit. )