I really liked Springer's feminist fairy tale retellings, which unfortunately were badly published by Avon--PLUMAGE, FAIR PERIL (the slightest of the three) and LARQUE ON THE WING (for which she won the Tiptree). one thing I really like about her gender-play is that she doesn't do a binary straight/gay division, but something completely blurred and amorphous and many steps beyond.
I don't know what goes wrong with her publishing history; she won two Edgar Awards, she's been a Nebula finalist, she won the Tiptree, etc. and she's always badly published or the books never take off for some reason.
TOUGHING IT was a very good, if dark, contemporary YA.
She's very good at the claustrophobic feel of these small former steel-towns in Pennsylvania that are now half-abandoned as the industry has changed, but sitll manages to find a sense of hope(fulness) in all the bleakness.
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I don't know what goes wrong with her publishing history; she won two Edgar Awards, she's been a Nebula finalist, she won the Tiptree, etc. and she's always badly published or the books never take off for some reason.
TOUGHING IT was a very good, if dark, contemporary YA.
She's very good at the claustrophobic feel of these small former steel-towns in Pennsylvania that are now half-abandoned as the industry has changed, but sitll manages to find a sense of hope(fulness) in all the bleakness.