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[doyle]

Buffy tie-in writer gets her raaaage on.

To all the people who think they can do better and are so generous with their criticism, I say go for it. Write your Buffy book and send it to Pocket and see how far you get, with your misspellings and lousy punctuation, and all the twisted, nonsensical sentences that violate every possible rule of grammar.

Damn, I thought Yvonne Navarro wrote Resurrecting Ravana, which I got one and a half chapters into before the redundant, crappy writing made me give up. That would have made this funnier. (She did write Paleo, Tempted Champions, the Willow Files and the Wicked Willow trilogy - anybody who's read them, are they any good?)

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[killerweasel.livejournal.com]

Boy, she sure is pissed off.

Tempted Champions was okay, Paleo was pretty good. Willow Files and the others with similar titles are basically episodes from the show, they aren't new fiction. I have the first two books of Wicked Willow sitting on my 'to read' stack right now, but I haven't had time to get to them yet.

I know a lot of people don't like his Buffy stuff, but I enjoy Christopher Golden's books. The Gatehouse Trilogy is neat, and I did like Spike and Dru. (Golden aslo has a very good series called Bodies of Evidence, about a college student who works in a ME office)

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I liked Pretty Maids a lot - I loved the shipwreck and the scene with the German uboat. I was surprised how much I liked his original villain in Immortal, too. I'd like to read some of his original fic.

[akadougal.livejournal.com]

Golden's original stuff really is very good horror. I also read a fair amount of his comic stuff, and I would say he's a better comic writer than novelist. He also agreed to do an interview for a fanzine that I used to run, and was very very interesting about it.

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

The Buffy tie-ins I've read were crap. Bad, poorly written crap. And you want to talk misspellings and poor grammar? Take a look at the Season 7 novelization. Every single page - no lie - has misspelled words.

Sorry, but Barb C could write rings around any of the tie-in authors. As could Herself. As could half a dozen brilliant fanfic writers. ::pokes rahirah into submitting for tie-ins::

Hell, there's a bunch of us (Buffy fanfic writers) who are published authors.

And Christopher Golden is a hack. Not to say that I don't envy him the money, but his work - at least, his Buffy novels - really are not that good. You want good horror?

Lee Thomas, Nick Mamatas, David Niall Wilson, Nina Kirikki Hoffman, etc. (Most of those are on LJ, too.)

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Gotta agree. Every one of the maybe, 7 or 8 Buffy novels I've read, or attempted to read, have been eye-achingly wretched pieces of crap. I remain shocked that anybody could have willing attached their real names to them, because, such shocking 'novels' would be grounds for execution under my world order.

Just because it's marketed as 'young adult' fiction, doesn't mean it has to be badly written tripe.