I’ve read Barbara Hambly’s books since the 80’s, so I was thrilled to see that she has started a new series set in pre-sound Hollywood. Looking after Kitty and her three adorable Pekinese dogs isn’t work Emma dreamed of, but Kitty rescued her when she was all alone in the world. Publisher: Severn House Golden Age of Hollywood, the Silent YearsĪRC provided by the publisher via NetGalleyįrom the publisher: 1924. After six months in Hollywood, young British widow Emma Blackstone has come to love her new employer, glamorous movie-star Kitty Flint-even if her late husband’s sister is one of the worst actresses she’s ever seen. Both had to be re-written multiple times – re-thought, re-worked, re-imaged.Īctually, since I don’t thrive well on flour in any form, I stick with grapes.R/suggestmeabook: I want a fast-paced murder mystery revolving around a rising starlet and investigated by an English fish-out-of-water. Which of your books gave you the most trouble, start to finish?ĭragonsbane. Worst? When I let Lester Del Rey, my editor, bully me into splitting the novel Sun Cross into two books and push me into making it much more a fantasy than the occult thriller I’d originally intended. It’s hard to say – I’ve had so much wonderful advice over the years. What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever been given? The worst? “Hey, how about writing a book about… etc.” One of the few times that’s happened.ģ. … be considerably wealthier than I am now.Ģ.What was the inspiration for Immortal Blood?įunny you should ask about that one it was one of those rare, drop-out-of-the-sky-in-one-piece ideas that came to me – whole – while I was lying on the couch in the house of my then-sweetheart, just before leaving for Seattle for a convention. Below, she kindly answers my random questions. Go forth and find her work for she is a true legend. She won a Locus Award for Best Horror Novel for Those Who Hunt the Night ( Immortal Blood in the UK – one of my personal favourites and my introduction to her work), and its sequel, Travelling with the Dead won the Lord Ruthven award for fiction. Not only that, she’s written books in the Star Wars and Star Trek universes. Her series, to date, are: The Windrose Chronicles, The Darwath Trilogy, the Sun Wolf and Starhawk series, the Sun-Cross series, the Benjamin January Mysteries, James Asher/Vampire Series, the Winterlands series, the Raven Sisters series, and the Beauty and the Beast books. Her world-building capabilities are enviable and to call her prolific is to understate things just a little.

Barbara Hambly writes across fantasy, science fiction and historical fiction.

Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly