Vampires and Superheroes

My friend Jeff just posted over on his lj a great, and currently unused, lead in to a vampire story. It's a Chicago setting that, I admit, sounds absolutely perfect for this kind of thing.

(Jeanienne? Ilona? You guys out there? I thought of you right away...)

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In other news, I'm a facebook junkie, and I've added the new Superheroes application to my list of procrastination techniques. Which reminded me today that I didn't ever blog about Soon I Will Be Invincible, a Superhero novel that reads like literary fiction. It took me about 100 pages to get into it, but once I did, man, what a read! I'm glad I stuck it out (based on a friend's recommendation). The narration is first person present tense, with flashbacks, from two different perspectives: the main supervillain and one of our heroes, a cyborg who doesn't remember her past. It has none of the hokey bits that I found both endearing and occasionally overboard in Karma Girl--it takes itself seriously, but not so seriously that it's not fun. And once the action starts, it's hard to put it down!

Scarily enough, I found myself identifying with the Supervillain more than I wanted to, which either says something about Austin Grossman's writing or something about my personal character. I prefer to think the former.

Guest Bloggers (reminder)

I'll be sending out individual posts to people's journals regarding this, but I wanted to remind folks about the guest blogging about myth idea I mentioned a month or three ago. Some people expressed interest in participating, and I'm still interested in hearing/posting what you have to say! So, if we discussed doing this earlier (or if we didn't talk but you'd love to write about myth!), here's the full scoop:

1) I'm planning to collect guest blogs from people until I have enough to post them once a week. So there's no real deadline here, but I'd like to start collecting them soon.

2) The idea for the entry (which should be between 250-500 words) should be on the importance of myth in X. You fill in the X. It could be about how you're using myth in a series you're writing, about using myth in games or any sort, or about the importance of myth as an academic study. I'm almost as interested in how people approach the theme as I am what people have to say.

3) While I'm not, you know, actually paying guest bloggers with cashy money, I would like to pimp your work. So I'll do a short bio for you and will link to your blog, your books, whatever you'd like.

4) Those three bullet points are really more like suggestions. I'm a pretty flexible blogger. :)

Thanks again to the people who are thinking of contributing!