Elaine Cunningham
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10:17 am
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BEYOND MAGIC is up on Amazon.com
 As you can probably tell from the cover, Beyond Magic is a paranormal romance anthology. As such, it's quite a departure for me. I've written two urban fantasy books--the Changeling Detective books--but they were not romances by any stretch of the genre. But this one qualifies; the relationship is an integral part of the story, and yes, there's a steamy scene or two.
You might expect a fantasy writer to lean heavily toward fantasy elements, but my story, "Beyond Dreams," has no vampires, werewolves, or other supernatural creatures. In tone and topic, it falls a lot closer to Kay Hooper's psi mysteries than to, say, Laurel K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series. If you like the TV show "Medium," you may also enjoy Cassie O'Malley's story.
I hope you'll consider giving it a look.
Tags: beyond dreams, changeling detective, paranormal romance, urban fantasy
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12:19 pm
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I can has COPYRIGHT?!! Srsly?
Yesterday I receive two ARCs of Beyond Magic, a Paranormal Romance anthology coming out this September. There are three novellas in it--one by Tor regular Susan Kearney, mine, and Kassandra Sims's. This is the first paranormal I've done, and I'm always happy about an opportunity to try something new (thanks, Anna!), but what REALLY tickled me was the copyright page.
Since I had to share the news, I opened the book to the copyright page and showed it to my son.
"Check this out! Look at the copyright!"
He stooped (he's 6'5") and squinted at the page. "Hair Express, Inc?"
"No! That's Susan Kearney. Some authors incorporate. Keep reading."
"Oh. Elaine Cunningham."
He looked up and grinned, understanding immediately. The copyright did not say Wizards of the Coast, or LucasFilm Licensing, or Sony Corporation (for the EverQuest book). Just an author's name--a statement that these characters are legally MINE. Not mine and the Literary Agency East, Ltd, joint copyright on the Changeling books. Just mine. After 17 years of writing shared-world fiction, that's a novel experience, you should pardon the expression. In fact, the emotion that copyright page evoked ranks only a few notches lower than The Call I got from Mary Kirchoff, then managing editor of TSR Books, accepting the proposal for what would become Elfshadow, my first book.
Life is good.
I can also has new toy. The Cunningham men bought me a new scanner for Christmas, but I didn't take it out of the box until this morning. (So sue me. I've been busy.) It's terrific--very fast, good quality reproduction. So I scanned in the cover of the ARC. Here it is:
 This is definitely a paranormal romance cover, but hey--that's what's inside. My story is pretty evenly balanced between mystery/plot and relationship. It's difficult to separate the two, but in general I think there's a stronger reliance on plot than on sex/chemistry--moreso than one might expect for this sub-genre. I hope paranoramal readers don't see this as a fault, but time will tell. I'm pretty happy with the story, and I'm looking forward to diving into a book-length story focusing on one of the secondary characters. I wrote a first draft about twelve years ago, but I never finished it because at the time, it just didn't seem to fit any publishing catagory. Nowadays it would be easily recognizable as urban fantasy. It's really more of a dark fantasy thriller--think early Dean Koontz, even--than a paranormal romance, but in these days of cross-genre fiction, I think it's close enough to work as a linked novel.
We'll see.
Tags: paranormal romance
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