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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn, with thanks to both participants for their work. Drmies (talk) 15:48, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Marla Mason

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This is not a notable set of books, as a Google News search, for instance, verifies easily. The books are self-published ("funded by donations"), and the only reviews are from blogs. Drmies (talk) 02:47, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The books did not begin as self published, as indicated in the article, but were initially published by Bantam - which in my opinion makes the history of the books more interesting and noteworthy. If you look up Blood Engines you'll find a number of reviews. I'll see what I can do about fleshing out the article a bit. Caseylf (talk) 02:54, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. There isn't a lot out there, but there's just enough for this to squeak by notability guidelines for books. It's a fairly thin line, mind you. If it was just the SF Site featured reviews or the PW reviews, I'd probably hesitate, but we have both as well as a lengthy Locus interview that is in-depth about the Mason series in particular and a mention on their yearly list of recommended reads. The RR list isn't that easy to get onto and while it's not the sort of thing that would give notability based on that alone, the combined sources show it just passes notability guidelines.Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:21, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Additional: I also found quite a few Locus reviews for the books, so it passes notability guidelines. If anyone is familiar with the series as a whole, it could use a series summary.Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 11:59, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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