New article in Crossed Genres! Idol Musings sighted in the wild! My early work is very serious!

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Considering how hard I’ve been on slash of late, it’s marvelous and timely that my article “Writing Our Own (Alternate) Histories: Fanwork as Folklore” should happen to be in issue 15 of Crossed Genres, which comes out today. (PRC – PDF – Print – Subscribe)

Really, at the end of the day, I do love fanwork. I think it’s one of the most significant, deep, and intimate ways a person can interact with extant material, and the community is a place where people can play and enjoy language in ways they might not wish to or feel empowered to otherwise. That, to my mind, is a social good.

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I found out last week (and then promptly failed to post) that people who pre-ordered are starting to see copies of Idol Musings. Fey has confirmed it, and at least one reader has said some very nice things.

While I haven’t held it in my hands yet, I’ve got it on good authority that this thing is a 600+ page behemoth of awesome.

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Don’t ask how I found this:
eBay – The Sun, by C.A. Young, 1897 edition.

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