Cassie Edwards, "Savage Quest" (2007)

"Savage Quest" was published in Feb. 2007 by Dorchester. The main story takes place in 1879 in what is now Montana; our intrepid heroine, Annamae, interprets dreams as part of a small travelling circus.( Read more... )

Cassie Edwards, "Savage Whispers" (1989)

This is one of Edwards' older books, and it shows: presumably she wasn't yet able to coast on her reputation (and was twenty years younger), so the prose actually has some description and flow, and the plot is noticeably more complex-- compared to her recent routine, it's almost mindbogglingly frenetic.

The sex scenes in this book add up to about 50 pages out of 312. IMHO no self-respecting sex scene should use the word "tummy". Let's not even get into the repeated phrase "the upper lobes of her breasts", which, when remarked upon to the wombat-consort, inspired comparisons to Eccentrica Gallumbits.

The latest SMTB list has one lonely citation for the 2000 reprint of SW, from N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain (University of New Mexico Press, 1969; abbreviated below as WRM). I was working from an original edition of Savage Whispers (Charter Books, July 1989), but the more recent Dorchester reprint seems to preserve the same pagination.

Edwards makes extensive use of Momaday's book (abbreviated below as WRM), as well as his article/essay "A First American Views His Land", first published with various photos as pp 13-19 National Geographic, Vol. 150 No.1, July 1976, and later reprinted (text-only) in his anthology The Man Made of Words, McMillan 1998 (abbreviated below as FAVL; page #s are via antho MMW or magazine NG).( Read more... )

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And now (as of 11 May 2008) I really am done looking for sources, having reached the LJ size limit for this post :b