Comments for Anne Lyle

Comment on The Prince of Lies: finished cover by Erica

Erica — Sun, 26 May 2013 23:49:53 +0000

It is a lovely cover. It’s neat to see some fantasy book covers with illustrations of the characters on them that don’t have the “cheese” factor that some of the books back in the 1970s and 1980s did. It would be sort of frustrating to achieve your dream of getting a book published and to have the cover be just awful . Lots of the fantasy covers these days are simply bland or generic, which is better than 1980s cheesy, but the ones for yours really draw the eye and capture the feel for the stories very nicely.

Comment on The Prince of Lies: finished cover by Anne

Anne — Wed, 22 May 2013 05:29:21 +0000

Certainly not! It just makes the cover more dramatic to focus on a single character – and ultimately it’s Mal’s story, not Coby’s, so he still gets top billing. She takes a back seat for a few chapters at the beginning of the book whilst I focus on him and Sandy, but has more than enough action of her own later on

Comment on The Prince of Lies: finished cover by Erica Wagner

Erica Wagner — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:12:18 +0000

Nice! Look forward to reading it, though I hope poor old Coby gets some screen time too and won’t have to be completely in the background as a new mom.

Comment on The Prince of Lies: finished cover by Anne

Anne — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:44:46 +0000

You’ve read the blurb, right?

In this trilogy, yes. Once introduced, I wanted to explore this aspect further. Not necessarily a trend in my writing generally, though. I also like low-magic fantasy!

Comment on The Prince of Lies: finished cover by Paul Weimer (@princejvstin)

Paul Weimer (@princejvstin) — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:40:30 +0000

Its shiny, Anne! And this does suggest a continued tonal shift toward the more…arcane?

Comment on Epic fantasy? What does that even mean? by Wilford J. Goodman

Wilford J. Goodman — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:05:54 +0000

To me, it seems like there may be two main types of horror, only one of which is anything like “dark fantasy.” There is what I think of as “supernatural horror,” which is horror with fantastical elements, and then there is “crime horror,” which usually deals with serial killers and whatnot. “Supernatural horror,” of course, is what I, as a fantasy nut, would usually prefer to read of the horror genre, but I’ve read some good “crime horror” too.As far as drawing distinctions between dark fantasy and horror…is that really necessary? I’m sure any good author writing within either of these genres would tell you that they hope to blur the lines between genres, not sharpen the distinctions.

Comment on What next? by Erica Wagner

Erica Wagner — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:45:02 +0000

Congrats on finishing. Look forward to seeing it and to hearing about your new book. Secondary world fantasy is indeed fun, for all the reasons you stated.

Comment on What next? by Anne

Anne — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:22:34 +0000

Thanks! I’m always nervous about a new book – will readers like it as much as the last one? Responses to The Merchant of Dreams have been split pretty evenly between “even better” and “not so good”, so I’ve resigned myself to the same with The Prince of Lies

Comment on Friday Reads: Red Seas Under Red Skies, by Scott Lynch by Anne

Anne — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:18:21 +0000

I reckon you should go for it! I’m still holding out for some fanart of my characters, although most of the shipping is canon

Comment on Friday Reads: Red Seas Under Red Skies, by Scott Lynch by Mitchell O. Owens

Mitchell O. Owens — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:20:30 +0000

On the (as-ever) excellent recommendation of @codalion, I finished reading The Lies of Locke Lamora (by Scott Lynch) last night. A wonderful, very fun and very satisfying book. Locke and Jean are also extremely shippy. I was pleased by the end to find that many of the characters I found likable (but wasn’t sure if I was supposed to like) did seem to have been intended that way — not all authors can pull that off, so it was fantastic.Should I draw fanart? Should I draw fanart of Locke and Jean being extremely obvious boyfriends all over the place? Because I kind of feel like I should.Nooooooooo augh I have to finish my commissions first and then my Chess Fortress series and probably somewhere in between there, draw some Moran/Moriarty because I am slightly self-indulgent.THERE’S ONLY ROOM IN MY DAY FOR SO MUCH FANART, SIIIIIIGH, my life, it’s so hard.