AAPI Book of the Day, Urban Fantasy Stories
I know, I know. Why wouldn’t I pick The First Binding? I mean, it’s amazing and epic, and the writing is beautiful and lush. But I’m betting you have already read it. Or maybe are still reading it. (It is, after all, 41 hours of audio !) Okay, fine....
Meet Your Fighter, Urban Fantasy Stories
As Roxy struggles through her Trials to join the Seattle Slayers, she is guided by some of their finest. Meet Akhil the Lightbringer. “He set down the cleaver and fanned out his hands about shoulder-width apart. He began humming and I found myself relaxing. The...
Meet Your Fighter, Urban Fantasy Stories
Meet Your Fighter, Kotori. They call her the Fox. She’s an illusionist and she hates rookies. She’s Roxanne’s new sensei. This is how Roxy meets her: I felt a little sick to my stomach. “Cage fights to the death? That’s your entertainment?” Samuel...
Meet Your Fighter, Urban Fantasy Stories
Meet Your Fighter, fae princess Cordelia of the Hinterlands. She is one of the first people Roxy meets on her quest to join the Seattle Slayers. Cordelia does everything right. She fights like every motion is effortless, she can handle close quarters in a melee round...
Asian Urban Fantasy, Futuristic Fiction, On Writing, Urban Fantasy Stories
MEET ROXY AND THE SEATTLE SLAYERS When you write contemporary fantasy, your mind goes to strange places. I started picturing this post-apocalyptic Seattle where magic governed and vampires ran rampant terrorizing the local population. A lot of things began to flow...
Asian Urban Fantasy, Urban Fantasy Stories
I stayed up late one night last week to finish Monkey Around by Jadie Jang. For a SF Bay Area native like me (who also happened to go to Cal) Monkey Around is an insider story filled with delightful local secrets. Add that to the fact that I also love contemporary...
Asian Urban Fantasy, On Writing, Urban Fantasy Stories
I read a lot of Urban Fantasy. I read broadly but UF is probably my favorite. As a reader, I was totally unaware of publishing trends. But in the last few years I’ve had to learn a lot more about publishing and then I started to hear that “urban fantasy is...
