I’m sitting here, giggling and giggling and giggling over this!

I must read more K.J. Parker. I actually borrowed one of their trilogies from the library a couple of months back, but that was before I learned to, like, only borrow as many books as I can actually read in a month. I had to return them unread. 🙁 I’ll get ’em again, though!

When I was at the convention at the end of August, I threw Parker out there as an example of a writer who’s managed to keep their gender completely under wraps, and everyone else told me I was an idiot and that everyone knows Parker is female. (Only they said it nicer than that. I just felt like an idiot afterwards). So now I don’t know what to think, since I Googled pretty extensively right after I finished PURPLE AND BLACK, and everything I read said we suspect they’re female but don’t know. Sigh.

I had never heard of her/him either, and was excited to find that s/he had written so many books. The tricky bit is going to be acquiring them. PaperbackSwap has been failing me. :/

Mine too! Well, that and yellow, but you couldn’t really have yellow text, it wouldn’t show up. Purple is more regal anyway. :p

Good luck! I’m sort of sad now that my library hasn’t got all of Parker’s books. Once I’ve read Devices and Desires I’ll be unable to get any more Parker. 🙁

I wasn’t enthused about it myself at first, but the writing was unexpectedly absorbing, and in fact made me abruptly very interested in military strategy and military history.

I know! Purple! Why aren’t more books written partly in purple?