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  • Re: "Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels)" by Ilona Andrews

    From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jan 6 17:43:20 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Hamish Laws <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 2:59:46 PM UTC+11, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 1/5/2024 8:38 PM, Hamish Laws wrote:
    On Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 11:12:58 AM UTC+11, Lynn McGuire wrote: >> >> "Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels)" by Ilona Andrews

    https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Strikes-Daniels-Ilona-Andrews/dp/0441017029/ >> >>
    Book number three of a ten book paranormal romance dark fantasy series. >> >>
    I'd classify it as urban fantasy rather than paranormal romance,
    there is some romance but it's not really a romance book (different
    focus)
    The difference is, if your book spills over into the romance market,
    your sales go up by 100X.

    I think it's the single biggest market segment, I'm not sure it's quite
    that simple though

    I think Ilona (the collective) identifies the Hidden Legacy series as >paranormal romance but not the Kate Daniels (even though there is
    romance in all of them) maybe Iron Magic qualifies as a romance - it
    started as a joke where they produced a cover for a book with the
    character and a lot of fans were "take my money now")

    I would say that their "Edge" books were also PR as are the related
    Innkeeper books. _Iron Magic_ is definitely PR (as well as a redemption story.)
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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Jan 9 00:41:47 2024
    Ted Nolan <tednolan> <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Hamish Laws <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 2:59:46 PM UTC+11, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>> On 1/5/2024 8:38 PM, Hamish Laws wrote:
    On Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 11:12:58 AM UTC+11, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    "Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels)" by Ilona Andrews

    https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Strikes-Daniels-Ilona-Andrews/dp/0441017029/

    Book number three of a ten book paranormal romance dark fantasy series. >>> >>
    I'd classify it as urban fantasy rather than paranormal romance,
    there is some romance but it's not really a romance book (different
    focus)
    The difference is, if your book spills over into the romance market,
    your sales go up by 100X.

    I think it's the single biggest market segment, I'm not sure it's quite >>that simple though

    I think Ilona (the collective) identifies the Hidden Legacy series as >>paranormal romance but not the Kate Daniels (even though there is
    romance in all of them) maybe Iron Magic qualifies as a romance - it >>started as a joke where they produced a cover for a book with the
    character and a lot of fans were "take my money now")

    I would say that their "Edge" books were also PR as are the related
    Innkeeper books. _Iron Magic_ is definitely PR (as well as a redemption story.)

    I'd say that all of their published work (that I'm aware of) is paranormal romance, but not all of it is urban fantasy. PR seems to encompass any romance with "fantastic" elements, whether science fiction, fantasy or horror.
    Their (IA) signature is strong female characters who don't cease being strong female characters when they fall in lurv. You can be virtually certain that the series (not the individual novels) is going to end with the prospective couple err...coupling, with plenty of mishaps and distractions along the way.
    What they've so far avoided is having the page count dominated by the more physical elements of the romance (choke, Anita Blake, choke).

    Robert
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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Jan 9 05:09:07 2024
    In article <uni4ob$173hh$[email protected]>,
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    Ted Nolan <tednolan> <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Hamish Laws <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 2:59:46 PM UTC+11, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>>> On 1/5/2024 8:38 PM, Hamish Laws wrote:
    On Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 11:12:58 AM UTC+11, Lynn
    McGuire wrote:
    "Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels)" by Ilona Andrews

    https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Strikes-Daniels-Ilona-Andrews/dp/0441017029/


    Book number three of a ten book paranormal romance dark fantasy series. >>>> >>
    I'd classify it as urban fantasy rather than paranormal romance, >>>there is some romance but it's not really a romance book (different >>>focus)
    The difference is, if your book spills over into the romance market,
    your sales go up by 100X.

    I think it's the single biggest market segment, I'm not sure it's quite >>>that simple though

    I think Ilona (the collective) identifies the Hidden Legacy series as >>>paranormal romance but not the Kate Daniels (even though there is
    romance in all of them) maybe Iron Magic qualifies as a romance - it >>>started as a joke where they produced a cover for a book with the >>>character and a lot of fans were "take my money now")

    I would say that their "Edge" books were also PR as are the related
    Innkeeper books. _Iron Magic_ is definitely PR (as well as a redemption
    story.)

    I'd say that all of their published work (that I'm aware of) is paranormal >romance, but not all of it is urban fantasy. PR seems to encompass any romance >with "fantastic" elements, whether science fiction, fantasy or horror.
    Their (IA) signature is strong female characters who don't cease being strong >female characters when they fall in lurv. You can be virtually certain that the
    series (not the individual novels) is going to end with the prospective couple >err...coupling, with plenty of mishaps and distractions along the way.
    What they've so far avoided is having the page count dominated by the more >physical elements of the romance (choke, Anita Blake, choke).


    I would say a characteristic of Andrews's work is that the couples are true partnerships. Compare to, um, say Sookie Stackhouse: It doesn't seem to matter who she is in love with this week, he will be marginal support in
    her latest danger. Curran on the other hand may be absent, and Kate may
    be coping with tons of stuff, but you can be sure what whatever he's doing,
    it is 100% in support of her, and when he shows up, he will be coming in hot. --
    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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