GenreLand discussion

I have seen other challenges use this as a prompt, and some people get a little creative with the interpretation if their area is not a hotbed of literary talent. "Local" can be defined very broadly.

We're very lucky here in Northern Colorado. I may go with a Connie Willis title or something from Carrie Vaughn, Kevin Hearne, or Laura Resau.

What authors do you have in your neck of the woods?

I'm going to finally get to Jason Bovberg's zombie books.

Jewels wrote: "I'm going to finally get to Jason Bovberg's zombie books."

Yeah, I want to finish that trilogy next year. I think it will be really funny if I'm right about the radioactive pine beetles from outer space.

Stina wrote: "Jewels wrote: "I'm going to finally get to Jason Bovberg's zombie books."

Yeah, I want to finish that trilogy next year. I think it will be really funny if I'm right about the radioactive pine bee..."

I haven't started it yet. But it's a definite want to read.

My friend and colleague is retiring this month. She just published her first book, which started as a writing project in a Fort Collins writers group she had been in for many, many years. Marilyn Colter's "A Woman's Work" gets my time this month.

Colorado also had the late prolific author Marilyn Harris . Her paranormal novel The Portent is fantastic.

I’m very excited about this prompt because i realized that Daniel handler (Lemony Snicket) is from the city I live in and even went to a local high school that a lot of my friends go to. I’m not sure which of his books I want to read though

Only one local author that I know of and that's Debra Glass. She writes erotica and also local ghost stories. I read her one and only non erotica fiction book already. I suppose I'll get ahold of one of her ghost books. By the way, she runs the local ghost tours every year. I went last year and it was awesome. She's a great story teller and a really nice lady too.

Plus, one of my colleagues just published a book on Tlingit totem poles and documenting history. Emily Moore.

Jim H. Ainsworth is from my area. I'm not sure if his books are to my taste or not, but I might try one.

I read Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones for a different book club this month. This would handily count for the Weird genre next month.

I've also started on Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin, but I doubt I will get it finished this month.