I think that’s great, Glenda, that they read and commented on your book. Though I can understand how you must have felt, knowing they didn’t like or read fantasy.

I wish there was a way of getting it into the heads of the litereary snobs that all fiction is fantasy. Of course, some works are more obviously fantasy than others – Pilgrim’s Progress; Gulliver’s Travels; Alice in Wonderland; a good third of Shakespeare’s plays, for example – but anything using imaginary characters in an imaginary place is surely fantasy. Saying some kinds of fantasy are acceptable and some aren’t is pretty arbitary, and calling some of it “magical realism” (as in, forex, the works of Margaret Atwood) doesn’t make it any more enjoyable or worthy of merit. Or any less fantastical:-)

But whatever we call the stuff, may it live long and prosper:-)

Which is of course ludicrous, if you stop to think about it, and just smacks of insecurity. ;oP

Congratulations (on the bookclub admittance of your books) and commiserations (on the orphan pariah status of fantasy in general) from a fellow ghetto dweller…

(and why won’t your silly comments set-up register my website as a live link…? growl.)