Weird Book World Information of the Day
Feb. 28th, 2007 08:41 pm(I promise I'm working on my Escapade con report(s). I just have to get this out first.)
I'd been trying to remember the name of a book. I knew it had a yellow-ish cover, and there was something about an underground (as in, literally under the ground) sexual ritual that Martha and her husband have to (or do) perform.
While Molly was here, we went to the used bookstore downtown, and I randomly found this book. It's The Labyrinth Gate by Alis A. Rasmussen, and the character is actually named Maretha. I quite enjoyed it, which makes me wonder why the hell I got rid of it when I owned it.
Anyway, that's not the point. The point is that I googled the author today. It turns out that Alis A. Rasmussen now publishes under a pseudonym: Kate Elliott. This is completely baffling to me. The Labyrinth Gate is very good. I could only make it through the third book of Kate Elliott's Crown of Stars series. The thing I remember that made me have to stop reading was this: The main character can magically set things on fire. The evil guy has her pinned back against a wall on the top of the tower. And then, instead of setting the bad guy on fire, she sets the whole damn tower on fire.
Despite that stupidity, I did like The Labyrinth Gate so much that I might have to try both Kate Elliott's other series and Alis A. Rasmussen's out-of-print sci fi series.
I'd been trying to remember the name of a book. I knew it had a yellow-ish cover, and there was something about an underground (as in, literally under the ground) sexual ritual that Martha and her husband have to (or do) perform.
While Molly was here, we went to the used bookstore downtown, and I randomly found this book. It's The Labyrinth Gate by Alis A. Rasmussen, and the character is actually named Maretha. I quite enjoyed it, which makes me wonder why the hell I got rid of it when I owned it.
Anyway, that's not the point. The point is that I googled the author today. It turns out that Alis A. Rasmussen now publishes under a pseudonym: Kate Elliott. This is completely baffling to me. The Labyrinth Gate is very good. I could only make it through the third book of Kate Elliott's Crown of Stars series. The thing I remember that made me have to stop reading was this: The main character can magically set things on fire. The evil guy has her pinned back against a wall on the top of the tower. And then, instead of setting the bad guy on fire, she sets the whole damn tower on fire.
Despite that stupidity, I did like The Labyrinth Gate so much that I might have to try both Kate Elliott's other series and Alis A. Rasmussen's out-of-print sci fi series.