The noted, eloquent, and highly discerning book reviewer M. Selavy has published an amazing review of Flowers of Luna.
All seriousness aside, I love reviews. Great ones the most, of course, and this one really let me know that I had, at least for her, accomplished what I'd set out to do. I particularly like that she mentioned that Hana and Ran's relationship is built on communication -- I was consciously trying to create a model of a consensual, negotiated relationship.
Another reader commented on Twitter that he'd read the very same story from Hana's perspective, and it was like opening the doors of revelation -- I hadn't even considered telling it from Hana's perspective, because Ran's declaration that she'd come to the Moon to go to college was my path into what became Flowers of Luna; the rest organically grew from there, and linked to a story about the Gray family that I've been trying to write for years, the story that appears in the background of the book. (Which, in turn, was a deliberate Mary Sue tale staring myself and my ex-girlfriend Jane -- and that may be why I was never able to get very far with it).
Anyway, getting back to the review... this is why I published the book. To share the pictures in my head with people who would get it; people who were looking for themselves in genre fiction and not finding. The smart girls, the nerdy girls, the Sapphist girls. And, you know... everyone else who enjoys realistic SciFi and a bit of romance.
If you'd like to read Flowers of Luna for yourself, to see what all the fuss is about, it's available on Amazon. It's on Kindle Unlimited, so if you're one of those folk, you can read it without any further financial outlay. More of Jenny's fiction is available on Wattpad for free, if you're still undecided.
All seriousness aside, I love reviews. Great ones the most, of course, and this one really let me know that I had, at least for her, accomplished what I'd set out to do. I particularly like that she mentioned that Hana and Ran's relationship is built on communication -- I was consciously trying to create a model of a consensual, negotiated relationship.
Another reader commented on Twitter that he'd read the very same story from Hana's perspective, and it was like opening the doors of revelation -- I hadn't even considered telling it from Hana's perspective, because Ran's declaration that she'd come to the Moon to go to college was my path into what became Flowers of Luna; the rest organically grew from there, and linked to a story about the Gray family that I've been trying to write for years, the story that appears in the background of the book. (Which, in turn, was a deliberate Mary Sue tale staring myself and my ex-girlfriend Jane -- and that may be why I was never able to get very far with it).
Anyway, getting back to the review... this is why I published the book. To share the pictures in my head with people who would get it; people who were looking for themselves in genre fiction and not finding. The smart girls, the nerdy girls, the Sapphist girls. And, you know... everyone else who enjoys realistic SciFi and a bit of romance.
If you'd like to read Flowers of Luna for yourself, to see what all the fuss is about, it's available on Amazon. It's on Kindle Unlimited, so if you're one of those folk, you can read it without any further financial outlay. More of Jenny's fiction is available on Wattpad for free, if you're still undecided.
1 comment:
I enjoyed your analysis of the post almost as much as reading the review itself. I hadn't thought about reading it from Hana's pov, I'll have to try that.
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