swan_tower | I must be a REALLY real author! (Reply)

Just got a heads-up for the Tangent Online review of Talebones #31, which contains my short story "The Twa Corbies". Once again, some plot spoilers (some day I shall learn to stop being surprised by their presence), but I can't complain too much when the reviewer is saying nice things:

I enjoyed Brennan's characterization of a narrator who regrets the choices he made that enabled him to understand birds. The author's experience as a folklorist allows her to give this story extra verisimilitude. While I haven't heard the ballad this story is based on, I have heard many similar pieces in the Celtic tradition, and "The Twa Corbies" does a good job of capturing the feel of those.

So all in all, some nice ego-boosting today (to balance out two rejections, one of which had me scratching my head, the other of which had me politely saying "okay, but I disagree" with regards to what the editor would have preferred the story to be).