Inadvertently Butchered

I've got one story, an urban fantasy piece, making the rounds that has gotten comments that it's a bit too like the Dresden Files. Another one, a classic fantasy, just got rejected with the note that the sidekick is too similar to Bob the Skull.

The really annoying thing? I wrote both of these before I ever read a Jim Butcher book!

2011 Book Review #45: The Family Trade

Title: The Family Trade
Author: Charles Stross
Genre: Modern world crosses over with medieval fantasy (first in series)
Thingummies: 2
Synopsis: Investigative reporter Miriam Beckstein loses her job when she digs too deep. But that's nowhere near as shocking as when she accidentally crosses over into a feudal, undeveloped version of America. It turns out that those those money launderers she had been investigating have nothing on her own long-lost relatives. She's suddenly a countess in a family that would put both the mob and the Medicis to shame. To survive, she'll have to beat them at their own game. Which she won't do in this book, because the author didn't bother to write a damn ending.

Thoughts: ( So, what did you think? )