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@andrearobertson
Well hey there
Itâs been a minute. Nice to see you. I have a new fantasy series: FORGED IN FIRE AND STARS, books 1 and 2 are available now. The final book in the series BOUND BY SWORD AND SPIRIT pubs May 16, 2023. I hope youâll check it out!
HarperCollins Strike Update
For the full breakdown of whatâs been going on since November, read here.
January 20, 2023
Itâs been over FIFTY days. The strike is still ongoing. Harper has yet to even speak to the union.
Union members are still scraping on their second and third hustles (which most entry-level publishing people have) and donations to the strike fund. The union has set up a hardship fund (hereâs the post about it on their official Instagram, for verification) so no more fiddling with checks or Venmo.
If you can donate, please do.
And whether you can or canât, please do still share.
Reminder that big publishers have seen record profits in the last few years. None of these have trickled down the the editors, marketing, design, legal, and more that are essential to getting a book published.
The strikers are asking for three main things - better pay, a bigger commitment to diversity, and more security for the union. That theyâve been striking for this long and canât even get that shows widespread problems in the traditional publishing industry.
Please support and boost where you can. Everyone involved in getting you your favorite books deserves a fair wage and better job security.
Back in SoCal where itâs apocalyptic rain, remembering the epic snow fort I built with my bro & fam in MN.
Winter walk
Who are you? Wil wheaton is a straight actor married for 20 years to a woman. Is this just an avatar?
Get ready for me to blow your mind...
Straight actors married for 20 years to a woman can love and support and stand with entire communities of people who are ... wait for it ... different from him! He can be a cishet white dude and still show his love and support for people who don't benefit from his privilege and status!
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? BOOM.
The He-Man Christmas special continues to be epic.
YES PLEASE AND THANK YOU.
This is actually info I didnât know
Seriously folks review my books! Review everyoneâs books!
Itâs the difference between Amazon giving a damn about you verses pushing your book to the bottom of the food chain.Â
I didnât know this!! Now I must review all the books!
The Invisible Hand of Your Mom wiping your butt for you so you can pretend like youâre having Important Man Thoughts
This makes me think about how Emily Dickinson was writing her poems and suffering from chronic depression but still somehow found time to contribute to the housekeeping and do all the baking and look after her sick mother. The Brontes sisters too still had to run the house for their elderly father and addict brother (who by all accounts did nothing and slept most of the day) while writing their poems and novels. Women writers have never enjoyed this privilege. .Â
Jane Austen only had a small desk in a public room.
After you learn more about women writers in the past, you really understand A Room of Oneâs Own.
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Shout out to my favorite Christmas movie
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NYT bestsellers, artists, illustrators, and Hollywood notables assemble for YALLWEST, a west coast...
Guys! I'll be at YALLWEST in April - it looks like it's going to be awesome. Hope to see you there!
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I got a great question in my Reddit Iama and itâs worth sharing here, as Tumblr has been the forum for much of the conversation about John Green, the NYTimes bestseller list, and the state of YA World right now.
Question: Hi Laurie! Loved TIKOM (and everything else) and Iâm super stoked to meet...
Ok, don't get me wrong because it's just curiosity, but I have to ask: how much of Supernatural is in Demon's Lexicon, if any? Please don't get this wrong, i love your books, it's a great story with great characters (and better storytelling, to be fair). It's just that I started to watch it recently and some similiarities struck me. And because it would be SO great if someone made a tv show out of DL :)
Oh, you poor sweetie. Please donât feel at all self-conscious about asking this question, because itâs totally fine, and I so appreciate you saying you like the books (and I would love to have a TV show!) but this is actually something that comes up a lot. This ask about my books is really nice, which is why I chose it, because people have told me they find hostile asks upsetting. I do myself.
Since this question DOES come up a lot, sometimes in not-so-nice ways, I figured maybe I could use this nice question and write some kind of Ultimate Tumblr Answer to all such questions so I wouldnât have to answer it again.Â
This is going to be kind of a BIG answer and it might feel overwhelming, so check out of it any time after the simple answer, which is:
None. Zero. Zip. Nada.
There is no Supernatural in my books. I promise you.
I have only seen a few episodes of the first season of Supernatural, back maybe six years ago, and I didnât enjoy it. (Which doesnât mean that people canât enjoy it. Many people cooler than me enjoy it. I have a brilliant lady astrophysicist friend who owns all the box sets!) Iâm not going to go into why I didnât enjoy it, because then people will come and argue with me about my judgy ways, and criticise all the stuff like Vampire Diaries and Teen Wolf that I do like. Fair enough, people. Let us all like what we like, accept that we like different things, and everything will be lovely!
I always feel like I have to be careful talking about Supernatural: if any Supernatural fans read the Demonâs Lexicon series and think to themselves, âHey, this contains some of the stuff what I like, i.e. demons and brothers (the only two things TDL and SPN have in common)â - then fabulous. I want people to read my books, and whatever way they get to my books is wonderful.
But itâs also important to be clear and honest: I would not base a book series on a TV show I never saw much of, and which I didnât enjoy. That would be a lot of time to devote to stuff I didnât enjoy! I wouldnât do it. (Why do people think I would? Well, weâll get to that later.)
There are a lot of demon stories out there, and a lot of family stories out there, but here are some obvious dissimilarities between Supernatural and the Demonâs Lexicon series:
1. The brothers in Supernatural are actually blood related, while the brothers I wrote about are not blood related. They are not even the same species.
2. One of the brothers in Demonâs Lexicon is disabled.
3. Road-Trip-Through-Small-Town America is a very distinct aesthetic Supernatural seemed to be going for. Canât be achieved when your setting is England. The magic system itself is rooted in American folkloreâmine is totally different.
4. There are ladies in my series who are present in every book and important, whereas I do not believe the Supernatural series has a female lead present in every episode or indeed season.
5. Thereâs also a queer character present and important in every book, and I do not believe the Supernatural series has a queer character present in every episode. Or indeed season.
6. There are no angels in my world and I understand angels become pretty important in Supernatural. Obviously, they like angels and I likeâother stuff.
This has come out seeming judgy of Supernatural after all. I understand that Supernatural now has a queer lady character played by Felicia Day, and thatâs excellent. I donât mean to bag on Supernatural. But it is a very different story to the story in my books, and its creators have very different priorities to me, and I think thatâs pretty clear.
Thereâs something else to be discussed here, which is that people may say unto me: Whyâd you write books about brothers and demons if you didnât want people to think your books were fanfiction, you dumb jerk?
I have two answers to that.
1) I can write what I like and I think itâs gross to say that I canât.
2) It wouldnât have mattered what I wrote about. Every book Iâve ever written gets this. My books havenât just been called Supernatural fanfiction. They get called Harry Potter fanfiction, too. Definitely! How would I have the ability to come up with my own characters?Â
No, the hero of Demonâs Lexicon is definitely Harry Potter. (Yâall remember that Harry Potter was an evil demon, right?) And Unspoken is definitely Harry Potter too. (Yâall remember that Harry Potter was a part-Japanese sassy girl detective? As well as being an evil demon. That Harry Potter. Such a multi-faceted individual.)Â
My books are also Twilight fanfiction. (What isnât?) And Full Metal Alchemist fanfiction. Just ceaseless fanfiction. And that means of course that the books are very, very bad.
My books get called fanfiction all the time, I think, for two reasons:
a) I am a girl. Dudes get to write perceived-as-derivative/actually-derivative fiction all the time and itâs a HOMAGE, but girls canât do either. People decide girlsâ stuff is derivative and lousy all the time, whereas boysâ stuff is part of a literary tradition and an important conversation. This is sexist and terrible.
Neil Gaiman referenced Asimov in Neverwhere:Â
http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/66578815533/my-father-claims-the-line-violence-was-the-last-refuge
And G.K. Chesterton in Coraline:
http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/42909304300/my-moms-a-librarian-and-planning-to-put-literary
And William Gibson in Neverwhere:
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2004/12/some-days-bears-on-top.asp
Yet I do not see Neil Gaiman getting chased around and called a plagiarist like I was this summer when I wrote three words which also appear in the Hunger Games! (And before that, as it turns out, in The Emperorâs New Groove. Llamas, sue the Hunger Games!)
I am very tired of seeing women insulted for things every dude in the world is allowed to do. It is not literary critique. It is violent misogyny.
b) I used to write fanfiction. (These two issuesâsexism and fanfictionâare actually very closely intertwined, because writing fanfiction is something that mostly girls do, and thus like all things Associated With Ladies, such as sewing and pink, is treated as dumb and worthless. And fanfiction, as Iâm going to discuss, provides people with a narrative that go âwhy this lady actually sucksâ and people love narratives which say that.)
For those who didnât know I used to write fanfiction, itâs obviously irrelevant to your opinion of me, and honestly, you can cut out here. Definitely if the person who asked me about Supernatural this time around wants to cut out here⊠they should. I am about to get mad. It is not your fault. I have just got this too many times, and I have had it up to here.
When someone is traditionally published after writing fanfiction, they get treated like trash, both by people who think fanfiction is weird rubbish and by people who themselves like to write and read fanfiction.
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Sarah Rees Brennan has a new post up about her experiences (some of them heart-breaking) as a now-published author who used to write fanfiction. Itâs well worth a read, especially for the way it highlights the role that gender may play in these issues.
What this post made me think about is the...
