'That love of maidens for monsters, that does not fade with time'

[dolorosa_12]

Someday I will have the mental energy for a proper Dreamwidth post, but that day is not today. Instead, this is something of a drive-by post to alert anyone that's interested to a live event that Katherine Arden is doing via Instagram tonight.

She's going to talk via Instagram Live (so it's a free event, although I would assume you need an Instagram account to watch) about mortal/immortal romance in fiction. Given that mortal/immortal romance is basically my favourite kind of fictional romance, and the specific mortal/immortal romance in Arden's Winternight trilogy is one of my very favourite examples, I am delighted.

Unfortunately, at 7pm EST this event is a bit too late for me (in the UK) on a weeknight, so I'm hoping it will be recorded, but for those who are interested, and in a better timezone, check it out! Arden's Instagram account is arden_katherine.

Comments

[dolorosa_12]

Weirdly, I have not read Hambly’s vampire series, although based on your comment, and the summary I read of the first book, I really need to remedy that immediately. I LOVE vampires (mostly), and those novels sound really like my thing.

So many vampires these days are just regular people who happen to drink blood.

So true, and so frustrating!

[lirazel]

If you already like vampires, I think you'll really like Hambly's take. I myself am not super into vampires--obviously, I love some vampire-related media like Buffy and Robin McKinley's Sunshine, but that's despite being about vampires instead of because of it. But I really, really like how Hambly interprets them. There's a scene in the first book that is my favorite vampire-related thing I've ever seen.