{"id":2929,"date":"2020-11-10T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T16:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2020-11-10T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T16:50:12","slug":"present-writers-madeleine-robins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2929","title":{"rendered":"Present Writers: Madeleine Robins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is the latest in a recurring series! For more about the series, please read the original post on\u00a0Marta Randall<\/a>, or subsequent posts on\u00a0Dorothy Heydt<\/a>,\u00a0Barbara Hambly<\/a>,\u00a0Jane Yolen<\/a>,\u00a0Suzy McKee Charnas<\/a>,\u00a0Sherwood Smith<\/a>,\u00a0Nisi Shawl<\/a>,\u00a0Pamela Dean,\u00a0<\/a>Gwyneth Jones<\/a>,\u00a0Caroline Stevermer<\/a>,\u00a0Patricia C. Wrede,\u00a0<\/a>Lois McMaster Bujold<\/a>,\u00a0Nancy Kress<\/a>, Diane Duane<\/a>,\u00a0Candas Jane Dorsey<\/a>,\u00a0Greer Gilman,\u00a0<\/a>Robin McKinley,\u00a0<\/a>Laurie Marks<\/a>,\u00a0Ellen Kushner,\u00a0<\/a>Delia Sherman,<\/a>Rosemary Kirstein<\/a>,\u00a0Karen Joy Fowler<\/a>,\u00a0Susan Cooper<\/a>,\u00a0Ellen Klages<\/a>,\u00a0Lisa Goldstein<\/a>,\u00a0C.J. Cherryh<\/a>,\u00a0Kate Elliott<\/a>, and Molly Gloss<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I keep noticing that a lot of the authors I want to profile with this series wear a lot of hats, and that is certainly true of Madeleine Robins. (Also could probably rock a stylin’ cloche, but Marissa Picks Hats For Writers is a different blog series, let’s not get sidetracked.) Robins has published in fantasy, mystery, and romance. I can only vouch for the first two, but they’re both really good, and I would make a bet on the last one based on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think one of the things I particularly like about the Sarah Tolerance mysteries that is also true of Robins’s two stand-alone fantasies is that they have a very strong sense of place. In most of her work, that place is urban in some way or another, but also she has a keen eye for characterization within its context. (Which…is the ballgame. Characterization without context is incoherent.) Her books are witty but never jokey at the expense of the story, fun without losing sight of serious life issues. In fact in some ways I think they’ll be the perfect pandemic rereads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s get on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the latest in a recurring series! For more about the series, please read the original post on\u00a0Marta Randall, or subsequent posts on\u00a0Dorothy Heydt,\u00a0Barbara Hambly,\u00a0Jane Yolen,\u00a0Suzy McKee Charnas,\u00a0Sherwood Smith,\u00a0Nisi Shawl,\u00a0Pamela Dean,\u00a0Gwyneth Jones,\u00a0Caroline Stevermer,\u00a0Patricia C. Wrede,\u00a0Lois McMaster Bujold,\u00a0Nancy Kress, Diane Duane,\u00a0Candas Jane Dorsey,\u00a0Greer Gilman,\u00a0Robin McKinley,\u00a0Laurie Marks,\u00a0Ellen Kushner,\u00a0Delia Sherman,Rosemary Kirstein,\u00a0Karen Joy Fowler,\u00a0Susan Cooper,\u00a0Ellen Klages,\u00a0Lisa Goldstein,\u00a0C.J. Cherryh,\u00a0Kate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-present-writers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}