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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I’ll eat my hat if Lara Elena Donnelly hasn’t written a damn lot of fanfic, and I mean that as a very high compliment. Armistice is the sequel to last year’s book Amberlough, which was sold to me as a gayer secondary world Cabaret, an extremely accurate description of its contents. Armistice is, frankly, even awesomer, and I am delighted as hell that it exists in the world. Armistice picks up three years from the close of Amberlough. Cordelia has spent the last three years working for a fragile resistance against the Ospies, whose hold over Unified Gedda has only…
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