Hey hey hey, we’re back with an Authors in Fandom interview based on MY LOVE OF SPREADSHEETS. Cat Sebastian is one of my consistent fave romance authors; she keeps an intimidating and amazing spreadsheet of her fic reading; and I’m delighted to welcome her to the blog to talk about her fanfic influences! How did you get into reading fic? What were the first fandoms you read in, and what’s the newest one you’ve fallen for? My first fandom was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and that was back when fic was mainly shared on message boards and list serves and…
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Break out the red wine and, unrelatedly, the pumpkin spice everythings! It’s autumn in the sense that both of us Jennies have now experienced weather that is cooler than 80 degrees, and we are celebrating! We’re kicking off our Three Musketeers readalong in this podcast (chapters 1-7), updating you on the results of our summer book preview, and previewing some books we can’t wait to read in the fall season. Then we wrap up with a review of Eric Gansworth’s unexpectedly sad YA novel Give Me Some Truth. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or…
Leave a CommentLinear time triumphed over chaos once more: We have attained the weekend! I am sorry to all of you, but especially to the Kurds, for having to experience this fucking week. I know I just said an encouraging thing about linear time, but have we considered just pressing pause on it for a bit? Just to get a break. It wouldn’t have to be for long. How long did Joshua make the sun stand still? Can we have a pause that lasts for that length of time? ….This links round-up has gotten a little conceptual. Please have some links. I…
Leave a CommentWell, friends, Supernatural returns for its fifteenth and final season tomorrow night. I recently finished the seventh season of Supernatural, yet somehow I am not even halfway done. It is, experientially, the longest show that has ever aired on television, the show that launched a thousand gifs, the show that has never let a woman or a black character survive in all its years of running. (I love Supernatural but OMG it’s a mess.) And as it veers into its final season, freeing up its leads to spend all their time making the con circuit and charge $2500 for photographs, we…
1 CommentOnce again we have made it through another week, and this time the weary week has done us a solid by leading us into October. The best of months! Welcome, October, we have been wishing for you. If you measure this week by hours, it has been the normal length, but if you measure it (and this is the trick) by presidential crimes openly committed, it has been ten thousand eons. I did get to play Untitled Goose Game this week, though. So at least there’s that. Anyway, here are some links for you! Call off the dogs; the best…
Leave a CommentSomehow it is October, and though many months of the year have passed, we are ever more convinced that linear time is a collective hallucination. We hope that you are experiencing Autumn, and we welcome in the settingsiest time of year by chatting about our thoughts on book settings. (I am opposed to them, and Whiskey Jenny is in favor.) In this podcast, we welcome the marvelous Ashley Wells, whom we do love but whom I invited to the podcast to punish her for forcing me to read this goddamn Irish book. She made us a game!!! We haven’t had…
Leave a CommentHello, hello! Have you missed me? I have not been telling you about short fiction lately, but I am inspired by the start of a new semester to resume my short fiction reading, even though semesters are meaningless in my life now that I am no longer (thank God) in school. Suitably, though, I am starting with a kind of story that I’m a sucker for, the kind that is written like a pretend piece of scholarship. You know the way to my heart, M. E. Bronstein. “Elegy of a Lanthornist,” by M. E. Bronstein (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 6700 words)…
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