That’s a damned shame; there are scads of excellent books in that genre.
I know! I feel like I should write apologies to Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson, George Martin (not the Beatles’ friend), and whoever wrote the “Mice with Swords” books…
Never mind the men! What about T. Kingfisher (horror with fantastic twists and hella funny), N.K. Jemisin, Mercedes Lackey, Lois McMaster Bujold’s Penric and Desdemona series (or the Vorkosigan saga if you’re more into starship stories), and so many more.
You’re a bit late, he died more than 16 years ago.
Luckily I got to meet him in the 90s and even got him to sign a book, I still have that book. (It’s a copy of “The Path of Daggers” in hardcover.)
He was my favorite author. 
I am fancy weird people!
From the Dept. Of Who Would’ve Thought?
I teied to copy it from X, didn’t work.
A Portland woman who wrote book called How to murder your husband has been arrested for…
I pretty much stopped reading more modern SF/fantasy a couple of decades ago. I still revisit old faves from time to time, but haven’t sprung for any new stuff.
Every time the urge to wander into that section of the bookstores seizes me, all it takes to quell the urge is to read the blurb on the back. After retching at all the cliches I invariably see, I put the book back and return to the history or science section to get my reading fix.
I’ll second the recommendation for T. Kingfisher. The first book of hers I read was The Hollow Places, and I found it gripping, intense, terrifying, and funny.
You should try Mercedes Lackey’s Five Hundred Kingdoms series; each book takes various fairy tale tropes and has a marvelous time twisting them by their tales, with plenty of chuckles along the way. The first book is “The Fairy Godmother.” Might have to go to Better World Books to find copies since it’s an old series. Good quality ex-library hardcovers for four or five bucks! Tons of other titles to browse.
Just quoting this from upthread.
Have you come across her juveniles, written under her name, Ursula Vernon? Especially her Hamster Princess series: Yeh, you’ll find them in the children’s section of your local library, and they’re suitable for reading to your kids, but on just about every darn page there’s something to make the adult reader laugh out loud.
Well, yeh, but this is the Pit, after all, where hijacks, asides, rabbit holes, and such are all part of the milieu.
I haven’t read that series yet, but I did really enjoy her wombat graphic novel.
I gave up on that, but just pointing out the wonderful cycles of time and this thread. Consider me bemused, not angry.
Oh, do you mean the Digger Unearthed, The Complete Tenth Anniversary Collection? Note the total number of Kickstarter subscribers and the amount raised; it was something like ten or twenty times oversubscribed from the original plan. The hardcover is worth every penny.
ETA: Went back and checked: original goal was $20,000; total raised was $420,730.
Yeah, that one!
Note also the blue ribbon on the page that says “Funded in 5 minutes”!
I completely forgot about that.
So you judge the book by its cover?