All I know about the authors involved is that they're good authors. I don't know authors, in general, well enough to have an idea of their ethical compass unless they've done something notable in either direction. It's not my biz. The names I've seen so far don't mean anything to me morally.
These girls have the most beautiful dresses. And so do I -- how about that?
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2011 2:49:59 pm PST #16963 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Atropa - Dec 01, 2011 3:45:41 pm PST #16964 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
ION, oh, I love watching curmudgeonly authors tell people in what order they should read their (mostly non-related) books, and then get cranky when people tell them "But I really loved your first book!". There are times when I really believe that Caitlin R. Kiernan wants to grow up to be Harlan Ellison.
Consuela - Dec 01, 2011 3:46:35 pm PST #16965 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, Caitlin Kiernan. She's a great prose stylist, but ooooh, such a drama-generator.
Ginger - Dec 01, 2011 4:06:43 pm PST #16966 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There are times when I really believe that Caitlin R. Kiernan wants to grow up to be Harlan Ellison.
To paraphrase a fannish response usually attributed to Robert Silverberg, "Shall we kill her now?"
Atropa - Dec 02, 2011 11:38:09 am PST #16967 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, Caitlin Kiernan. She's a great prose stylist, but ooooh, such a drama-generator.
Ahahahaha. Yes. Yes she is. Her loathing-filled rants about ebooks are kind of amazing.
Consuela - Dec 02, 2011 2:46:58 pm PST #16968 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Her loathing-filled rants about ebooks are kind of amazing
Seriously? Oh, dear.
I got to know her a bit during the Farscape campaign, because she's a big fan--she used to cosplay Chiana at con (dunno if she still does), but she got very spun up, and her agent recommended that she cool it. Which was wise, I suspect.
Atropa - Dec 02, 2011 2:59:24 pm PST #16969 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Yeah, she is Very Against This New-Fangled Tech, because paper books are ... sacred? I'm not sure.
She doesn't cosplay Chiana any more, but I know she did a great job of it.
She's a wonderful person (I kinda-sorta know her), but she occasionally starts emulating Harlan in the ranting department.
sumi - Dec 02, 2011 6:27:57 pm PST #16970 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
Would Fay's story be part of this collection?
smonster - Dec 03, 2011 5:13:44 am PST #16971 of 28282
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
sumi, no. I have that book and by "tiny", they mean "one sentence." It's a delightful little book, but I don't believe Fay contributed.
Atropa - Dec 04, 2011 10:33:37 am PST #16972 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Book and tattoo geekery! The next tattoo I'm getting is the memorial tattoo for my Mom. But I figured out the tattoo that comes *after* that one. I'm re-reading The Historian (I'm planning on doing a Nocturnal House post about it), and hit the section where they discover a family that is distantly descended from Vlad the Impaler, and that it is a family tradition to tattoo one child in each generation with a small image of the Tzepesh Dracul dragon, for protection.
You people see where I'm going with this, right? Because, hey, I really am a descendant (by way of a poor serving maid, but still!), and I'm a Dracula geek. Now I just have to decide where I'll have it done. I'm idly thinking of the front of my right shoulder.