bodlon | New article in Crossed Genres! Idol Musings sighted in the wild! My early work is very serious! (Reply)

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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