[LMB] Vampire books, from Lois?

[Mark Allums]

Paula Lieberman wrote:
 >> Mark Allums wrote:
>> But a Bujold
>> set in the Twin Cities?  And a mystery?  :)  Perhaps stir
>> in some Jim Butcher-type situations?*
>>
>> Don't laugh.  I'm serious!  :)
> 
> I keep wondering when urban 
> fantasy/paranormal-witches-werewolves-shapeshifters-vampires romances is 
> going to crash--I was looking at the current Locus at the NESFA Clubhouse 
> last week and the Locus tally of paranormals for 243, and I suspect that 
> Locus didn't catch all of them!   Market oversaturation and reader 
> exhaustion and overexposure seems inevitable. 

Yeah, that was basically my point when I posted that link to the Devil 
Inside/whatever book, with the lower back tattooed woman.  On the other 
hand, they still sell a lot of Harlequins and so forth, though they've 
evolved somewhat.  For that matter, they still sell a lot of 
Tolkien-alikes, whodunits, and astrology books.  But while they have 
quantity, we have quality.

--MArk Allums