I must learn to trust the Buffistas for all my obscure knowledge needs.
Spike: Or maybe Captain Forehead was feeling a little less special. Didn't like me crashing his exclusive club, another vampire with a soul in the world. Angel: You're not in the world, Casper.
'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
Connie Neil - Jun 03, 2006 7:51:15 am PDT #552 of 28095
brillig
Katerina Bee - Jun 03, 2006 9:18:34 am PDT #553 of 28095
Herding cats for fun
hey, woke up with wings!
Damnit. NOW how do I get dressed with these things hanging offa my back?
The concept of wingfic makes me laugh and laugh without even having to read any of it.
Wrod. Heh heh heh heh. Visualizing reams of Shaun Cassidy-Leif Garrett fic that would have come from my era. Egads.
Want to read Matt’s version of wingfic, though. The neocons should experience some of our crime-fighting righteousness.
Volans - Jun 03, 2006 10:40:01 am PDT #554 of 28095
move out and draw fire
I must learn to trust the Buffistas for all my obscure knowledge needs.
I may be letting you down - the person I heard it from read it in the IHT. So I'm going to search their archives in case the article mentioned the book, but I feel the lead getting cold.
Connie Neil - Jun 03, 2006 11:19:26 am PDT #555 of 28095
brillig
That's all right, Raq, I'm just glad I didn't create the whole concept out of my imagination.
Amy - Jun 07, 2006 6:35:11 am PDT #556 of 28095
Because books.
I'm trying to come up with authors who wrote in many genres, or for both children and adults, all under the same name. Joan Aiken is an example -- she wrote The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and a million other children's books, but also wrote Jane Austen "sequels" (before it was in vogue, too) and other adult books, all under the one name.
Any others anyone can think of? I need examples for a column I have to write, and naturally I came up with my hypothesis before I had proof.
erikaj - Jun 07, 2006 6:39:02 am PDT #557 of 28095
Always Anti-fascist!
Lois Duncan Judy Blume Michael Chabon
Dana - Jun 07, 2006 6:39:47 am PDT #558 of 28095
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Neil Gaiman? Diane Duane? Roald Dahl?
Stephen King wrote a book for kids, or at least for young adults.
Amy - Jun 07, 2006 6:43:53 am PDT #559 of 28095
Because books.
Did Lois Duncan write for adults, too? Cool.
Judy Blume is perfect.
Don't know Diane Duane -- I'll look her up. Didn't even think if Roald Dahl.
Possibly, you guys should be writing this column.
Nutty - Jun 07, 2006 6:44:31 am PDT #560 of 28095
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think Stephen King is always writing horror, whatever the audience. Actually, I think a lot of authors branch out into children's books, because they're short and they've already got name recognition, but aren't necessarily writing something "different," just modulating their tone and vocabulary.
You'll find the damnedest names on a children's library shelf (John Lithgow, who is quite good, and also Fred Gwynn, who played Hermann Munster).
Amy - Jun 07, 2006 6:47:56 am PDT #561 of 28095
Because books.
Fred Gwynn, who played Hermann Munster
We have one of those -- The King Who Rained.
Actually, I think a lot of authors branch out into children's books, because they're short and they've already got name recognition, but aren't necessarily writing something "different," just modulating their tone and vocabulary.
That's why I hesitate to mention Chabon. I want people who are writing adult and children's book simultaneously (like Joan Aiken), not who used their name recognition as a platform to write stuff they might consider more fun.