two things, briefly

[ladynorbert]

First...thank you for the postcard, ladyrazorsharp! It was a treat in the mailbox; I didn't have one from La Brea before!

Second...valerious013 and I are very excited, because our joint fic "Broken Boughs" just received its first review from a complete stranger. And it'a good review.

This deserves more reviews. It's one of the better stories I've managed to dig
up in the Fantasy section.

It is really lovely. The style's a little odd. The qoutes seem somewhat modern and the rest of the text less so. But it's still lovely.

I really liked how much you threshed out your world before you started in. People don't seem to do it very often.

All in all a wonderful story.

*beams*

Comments

[ladyrazorsharp.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. ^_^ I don't think people send picture-postcards enough anymore.

And yes, I agree with the above reviewer--your story needs more reviews. It's a great story, very ingenious. I love the whole tree-centric thing, especially how there are twelve of everything. THAT is a twist I would not have thought of.

It reminds me a little of The Copper Crown, part of the 'Keltiad' series by Patricia Keanally--a setting both futuristic (a Celtic tribe somehow--tied up with Atlantis?--figured out space travel to escape a bloody civil war) and ancient (many Celtic traditions survived their journey). That and Patricia Llwellyn's Druids, but that was based on fact. Sort of. And I enjoyed both of those books. ^_^

[ladynorbert.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I never responded to this -- LJ wasn't sending me my comments for several days, so I didn't see this before now. I'm so glad you're enjoying the story, and I hope you'll continue to do so. I don't know where the tree thing came from, it popped into my head while I was whipping up the prologue and Lyn loved it, so we kept it. :)