Post originally by William A. Peterson at 2005-05-09 19:43:33
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Just FYI, Mercedes Lackey has done a LOT more with 'Urban Fantasy' than just 'The Fire Rose' (though that was very good!).
'Sacred Grounds', the Diana Tregarde 'trilogy', the Eric Banyon stories, the various 'Elemental Masters' tales...
She's got a tremendous wealth of source material that I would dearly love to see tapped!
She also has a number of co-authors (Ellen Guon, Mark Shepard, and others) who have written their own novels, set in one of her other worlds, or in other worlds of a similar nature...
So, I was VERY disappointed that they didn't at least make a stab at doing some of these worlds! {Le Sigh!}

Another excellent author for this sort of thing is Jim Butcher, whose 'Dresden Files' have recently hit the seventh novel...
Harry Dresden is the only Wizard that you're going to find in the Chicago Phone Book...
and the only one on retainer to the Chicago Police Department...
but that doesn't mean that he's the only one in town! And he's certainly not the only Supernatural Being in the area...
Imagine a cross between Doctor Strange, Sam Spade, and Spider-Man, and you've got a fair idea of what Harry is like... :->