I'm off down to London today, where, this evening, I will be interviewing my fellow author and long-time great friend Jaine Fenn for the BSFA. Details are here: https://www.bsfa.co.uk/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/24/27th-May-2009-BSFA-Monthly-Meeting-Jaine-Fenn-interview.aspx

Jaine is the author of <i>Principles of Angels</i> (Gollancz 2008) and the forthcoming <i>Consorts of Heaven</i>. Check them out: fast, exciting, subversive SF with a thriller twist.

I'm off down to London today, where, this evening, I will be interviewing my fellow author and long-time great friend Jaine Fenn for the BSFA. Details are here: https://www.bsfa.co.uk/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/24/27th-May-2009-BSFA-Monthly-Meeting-Jaine-Fenn-interview.aspx

Jaine is the author of Principles of Angels (Gollancz 2008) and the forthcoming Consorts of Heaven. Check them out: fast, exciting, subversive SF with a thriller twist.

A young woman awakens confused, in pain and in a place she does not recognise. The strangers she meets tell her is is a cousin, a bride-to-be, a flighty, selfish aristocrat. All she knows is that she does not feel safe and she wants to know who she is and what is going on. Learning her identity takes a little while, but even when she regains her memory, the truth about what is going on takes a lot longer to discover. Plots and counterplots, abductions, escapes, ambushes, treachery, politics abound as the heroine -- Flian -- strives to understand her life and her position in the world.

https://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/05/living_with_gho.shtml

Her comments on magic, are, I think, perfectly fair. I find magic hard to write. SO, if anyone is interested, there's a 'Questions about Meraafi and Magic' open thread on my live journal (https://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/154202.html)