Take a look at her fangs. Top and bottom on her right are broken, most likely by a bullet. Corbett believed the wound caused her to turn man-eater...
Jim Corbett talks a little about what happened after he killed the Champawat Tigress in Man-Eaters of Kumaon. The locals who’d helped beat the...
Well, one of the markets I submitted to last year went on indefinite hiatus, so that a de facto rejection. Total for 2024: 5
Form rejection from Flash Point SF, and I’m writing off two other submissions as dead letters. Any market that can’t be bothered to answer the...
Might be sooner than later. This idea has so thoroughly captured my imagination I can’t concentrate on other projects, so I’m tempted to pants the...
It’s a good idea, and I wouldn’t hesitate to go this route if it was a mainstream romance. “Shadow Daddies” are a big trend in fantasy romance...
Normally, this route would work wonderfully. But in romance, audiences expect to be right there in the head of the romantic lead rather than...
More or less. I’m working my way through Leiber’s stuff (currently on Swords in the Mist), and Elric is on my TBR. Yeah, I found that thread...
Why do romances end happily? Why are mysteries solved? Genres have their conventions, and one convention of the sword & sorcery subgenre of...
A defensive focus would make sense. The MMC is fairly young—around twenty—so his education wouldn’t be especially deep, and where better to start...
I’m toying with this idea of a S&S-style fantasy romance whose setting is loosely based on the Late Bronze Age. The female lead is very...
Oh, I fully agree; I don’t think a vampire bite would look very catlike at all. But I also don’t want to rain on OP’s ideas. If that’s how their...
Dracula describes the effects of feeding in terms almost identical to anemia: tiredness, weakness, severe shortness of breath, and an increasingly...
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