Where they can eat without getting caught, that too. Who would write those guides for monsters? What kind of information would monsters need when they travel? Where to sleep, definitely. And when people travel, they usually buy a travel guidebook. I didn't sit down to say, "urban fantasy, here I come!" But I had a thought, if monsters live in cities like people, then they probably travel like people. I didn't even know that was a thing, and already magazines were saying please stop. Was it just sex with vampires, or did you have to have a private investigator? I remember looking at magazine submission guidelines over a decade ago and seeing that they did not want any more stories about dwarf/elf PIs. I wasn't even sure what urban fantasy was. Although "Weird' is now its own genre, so I had to stop using that word. And that's essentially what I called it: weird stuff. I didn't write terrifying or gory horror. I didn't write epic sword and sorcery fantasy, and I didn't write hard SF. I think I tripped and fell into urban fantasy.īefore The Shambling Guide to New York City, I wrote everything from superhero satire to humorous zombie audio drama to an epic 5 novella series about people traipsing around the afterlife and watching the world end.
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