Anne Jamison is the author of three critical books, including Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World. She teaches literature and culture from the eighteenth century to the present at the University of Utah. She lives in Salt Lake City with her dogs, her son, and an avant-garde poet. In Between Days is her first novel. How did you get into reading/writing fic? What were your earliest fandoms, and what’s the newest one you’ve fallen for? I first found online fandom when I was teaching Buffy as a TA for seven discussion sections and I got desperate (that is…
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Authors in Fandom: An Interview with Tasha Suri
Published 11 Nov 2019
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Gin Jenny
I have been waiting with a reasonably good grace (I say, not at all self-congratulatorily) for the sequel to Tasha Suri’s wonderful Empire of Sand — which is about a woman called Mehr who has inherited an important power from her Amrithi mother and now must marry the servant of the very wicked Ambhan emperor. That sequel, Realm of Ash, is out tomorrow, and I absolutely cannot wait for it, knowing as I do that it’s about the younger sister of the protagonist of Empire of Sand. I love all kinds of sequels, but I particularly love the ones that…
Leave a CommentAuthors in Fandom: An Interview with Cat Sebastian
Published 21 Oct 2019
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Gin Jenny
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…
Leave a CommentAuthors in Fandom: An Interview with Zen Cho
Published 7 Oct 2019
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Gin Jenny
Given that I revived this series in part because of AO3’s Hugo win, I was extra-thrilled when 2019 Hugo winner Zen Cho agreed to participate! And you should absolutely read her Hugo-winning novelette, “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again,” which is a dear and lovely story that I adored. How did you get into fanfic? Do you remember the first fandoms you read/wrote in? We got a computer when I was 9 and the first thing I did was go online and look to see if there were any books by L. M. Montgomery that I could…
Leave a CommentAuthors in Fandom: An Interview with Caitlin Starling
Published 23 Sep 2019
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Gin Jenny
A position statement: Y’all need to read The Luminous Dead. It’s like how The Martian would be if The Martian were queer, furious at capitalism, and 75% corpsier. In the meantime, please welcome its author, Caitlin Starling, to chat about her fanfic influences and rec us some fics! How did you get into reading fanfic? Do you remember the first fandoms you read/wrote in? Sailor Moon! I was (oh god) about eight years old, bumbling around various fansites. I ended up finding one that I think was just called Sailor Jupiter, and it had fanfic about an original sailor scout…
Leave a CommentAuthors in Fandom: An Interview with Yoon Ha Lee
Published 9 Sep 2019
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Gin Jenny
AO3 has won a Hugo, in light of which I felt it was time to revive my Authors in Fandom interview series, and I am very very thrilled to welcome Locus Award winner and multiple Hugo finalist Yoon Ha Lee! His book Ninefox Gambit daunted me a scootch before I read it, but I fell so intensely in love with it that I have never yet recovered. It’s about a dutiful space soldier who’s conscripted into sharing her mind with a long-dead military genius whose brain was put on ice after he inexplicably murdered his entire space battalion. Ninefox Gambit…
Leave a CommentAuthors in Fandom: An Interview with K. Ancrum
Published 18 Mar 2019
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Gin Jenny
Happy Monday! I hope you all had a good, minimally annoying St. Patrick’s Day, but it’s a new week now and time to celebrate the soon-to-come release of The Weight of the Stars, or, as I call it, LESBIANS IN SPACE, by K. Ancrum. To celebrate the occasion, I asked her to stop by ye olde blog and talk about some of her fanfic influences — and wouldn’t you goddamn know it, she wrote her damn thesis on fandoms! What a world. How did you get into fandom? Like so many before me, I was sucked into fandom via Star…
Leave a CommentAuthors in Fandom: An Interview with Lara Elena Donnelly
Published 9 Jul 2018
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Gin Jenny
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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