If you have enjoyed this book....

[arachnekallisti]

On the other side of the page from the Afterword, there was a list of Other Books By The Same Author. They're mainly rather pulpy fantasy stories about a nice married couple from New York who travel the world, have adventures, fight alongside sword-wielding vigilante reptile women in London and that sort of thing. Amy was also published in Weird Tales, mentored the young Leigh Brackett and C.L. Moore, and scared the hell out of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (which wasn't exactly difficult).

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[arachnekallisti.livejournal.com]

Thanks for drawing Freya Stark to my attention! I'd heard the name, but wasn't previously aware of quite what an amazing life she'd had.

Whilst struggling with writer's block, Richard Castle read half of a battered copy of one of A. Pond's Melody Malone mysteries, and vaguely considered trying to do something clever and sci-fi with a time-travelling detective. He ran into Kate Beckett at the book launch the day afterwards, so Nikki Heat ended up being a rather different character in the end. And the rest is history...

[prochytes.livejournal.com]

Castle also found one of Melody's other tales - about a Wild West setting with curiously futuristic tech, a doctor on the run, and a deeply traumatized super-soldier who eventually triumphed over the programming and the demons associated with it - strangely compelling. He never really worked out why.