Writing Life and What to Read After Harry's Done...
So, you're wondering what to read now that you're done with Harry Potter's series and (if you're at all like me, The Dark Tower series), I have a few suggestions, since I face the same dilemma. I'm actually feeling a bit of gloom since the only thing I look forward to at the bookstore is BLEACH's next installment and The Harlequin to be released in paperback.
Lately, I'm reading more and more cyberpunk. For some reason I'm devouring it with an enormous appetite that is both scary and strangely fascinating. As soon as I'm done with one, I'm ravenous for another one, so if you want to recommend any authors to me that write cyberpunk, let me know. Email me.
Anyway, I digress. Here are some of my new favorite authors and some suggestions to fill your TBR stack. My is seriously being worked now that I'm not writing as much due to the resumption of school. Yep, I'm a teacher and grading, lesson planning, and after school activities erode my writing time.
Science Fiction:
Lately, I'm reading more and more cyberpunk. For some reason I'm devouring it with an enormous appetite that is both scary and strangely fascinating. As soon as I'm done with one, I'm ravenous for another one, so if you want to recommend any authors to me that write cyberpunk, let me know. Email me.
Anyway, I digress. Here are some of my new favorite authors and some suggestions to fill your TBR stack. My is seriously being worked now that I'm not writing as much due to the resumption of school. Yep, I'm a teacher and grading, lesson planning, and after school activities erode my writing time.
Science Fiction:
- Anything by Philip Dick is worth purchasing and reading thoroughly. I love him. His sense of irony and wit is so fantastic you barely notice it until POW it's too late. My personal recommendation are Minority Report and Other Stories and Paycheck. Though my all time favorite is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
- As I mentioned it before, I'm reading a ton of cyberpunk. So, I also recommend Richard Morgan's breakthrough novel, Altered Carbon. There are four novels in this series already, but he totally ROCKS!
YA Fantasy:
- One fantasy series that's totally sucked me in is the Ranger's Apprentice series. I'm totally taken with Will, an orphan (echos of Potter), but that's where the similarities end. This scrappy apprentice has the guts and the drive that puts his superiors to shame. What really shines in this tale is the storytelling. It's marvelous.
Fantasy:
- I'm reading, well, re-reading The Wizard of Earthsea series of novels. They don't take me long to digest and to read. These are classic tales, and ones I enjoy over and over again. This series is what Harry will be in a few years.
In between that massive chunks of reading, I'm also working on Cybil's third novel. Any day now I'm to receive the final edits for SILENCED, the first novel in the Cybil Lewis series. I'm excited and a buzzing it beginning to generate around the first novel in this anticipated, hybrid story. With any luck and a great deal of support, Cybil will make a long lasting impression on the sf reading public.
Anyway, hopefully these titles will help you fill the whole in your heart by Harry Potter's final release. This is an excellent time to try new authors, ahem, and to re-read old favorites.
Enjoy.
Nicole
