Happy Monday! As y’all may know, I’ve been thinking a lot about the boundaries between fanfic and literary fiction and genre fiction, and one of the ways this has manifested is that I chased down Lara Elena Donnelly, author of the wondrous secondary world fantasies Amberlough and Armistice, to ask her many questions about her background with fandom and fanfic. If you haven’t read her books yet, I recommend them highly: They are about the performers and owners and patrons of a glam-as-fuck nightclub in a country where fascists are slowly taking over. This interview contains no spoilers for either…
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Oh marvelous Audra of Unabridged Chick for putting me onto Amberlough by describing it (accurately) as “a gay spy thriller that’s allegedly Le Carre meets Cabaret.” This is a terrific and accurate description, although Cabaret is already pretty gay. Please hold while I go down a rabbit hole of watching YouTube videos from Cabaret and then conclude that this piecemeal bullshit is no good and I need to watch the movie again in its entirety. Enjoy this book cover while you’re waiting. Cyril De Paul is a half-hearted spy for the government of Amberlough, one of four loosely affiliated governments…
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