Cautionary links on two of next year's Swancon guests

[alias_sqbr]

My personal history with Isobelle Carmody

May be triggery(*): Anne Bishop does not CARE what you think

Don't get me wrong, both authors can be a lot of fun! But I would hate for anyone to start reading them before the con without knowing what they were in for.

*goes back to recuperating from post-con lurgy*

(*)For what you ask? For EVERYTHING. She's that kind of author.

Comments

[kerravonsen]

Thank you for confirming that I do not want to read anything by Anne Bishop.

As for Isobelle Carmody... I read the first Obernewtn book and didn't like it, so I didn't bother with anything else she'd written.

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah Anne Bishop is really not for everyone.

As for Isobelle Carmody... I read the first Obernewtn book and didn't like it, so I didn't bother with anything else she'd written.

A lucky escape!

[velithya]

...did you change your Anne Bishop link to something else? I thought I remembered a different link. (The link you have now I feel is definitely more hilarious!)

I very much enjoyed the Anne Bishop books but you don't really have to think much while reading them and also you shouldn't read them at all if you have trigger issues.

[alias_sqbr]

I did change the link! I couldn't find the one I wanted at first so settled for something less funny but further searching led to success.

[velithya]

Makes sense :)

[dharma_slut]

I had no idea Anne Bishop is so... inventive.

She makes me feel SO MUCH BETTER about that crack vortex that I feel too embarrassed to write but won't go away...

[alias_sqbr]

A not uncommon response, afaict.

[cest_what]

Ahaha, I went to one of Isobelle Carmody's book launches once (Darksong, I think), and she mentioned then that she had an irrational fear that she would die when she finished the Obernewytn Chronicles. I don't know how throwaway it was, and she was saying it in relation to "why I'm planning a Beforetime Chronicles" (... lol) but it could be a factor.

I did read the most recent two books in the Ober Chronicles (there's supposed to be one more to come? who knows), but I honestly feel that it wasn't just that I'd grown up and moved on, it was also that she'd grown past them a bit herself? Or past Elspeth's prickly socially difficult narrative voice and interpersonal relationships? They felt a bit lost.

Ober was my first online fandom, though (social forum-based rather than ficcish) so I'll always feel affectionate.

[pennydreadful]

i was expecting personal tales of author drama, i am glad that you were not personally blasted by either.

otoh, this made me think because i never see a "wow Carmody, top recs for awesome female fic authors!!" post without thinking similar thoughts. Especially thinking this is one area where i prefer fandom over canon, at least in fandom people have ettiquettes for flagging the eternal WIP and even offering them over to other fans to finish writing.

Then [plot twist!] i realize Game of Thrones has gone all HBO franchise, despite Martin taking foreeeeever to, so I dunno.

[alias_sqbr]

Oh, no, I have no reason to think they are anything but lovely in person! Which is good since I will be seeing them in person in less than a year...

With Game of Thrones they can always make up their own ending if they have to, that's what anime makers do :)