Selections from Rarewomen 2013, Invisible Ficathon 2014, plus the usual assortment of old & not quite so old...

( 3x lit: Austen, Narnia/Buffyverse, Heyer )

Stories that you could swear were canon, except for the bit that isn't... whether that's genderbending, filling in the missing erotica, or textualising all that homoerotic subtext. For those who don't want to choose between more of & more from canon.

( 6 recs in Discworld, Georgette Heyer, Isaac Asimov, Jane Eyre, Love Actually, Rosemary Sutcliff )

My Yuletide 2011 recs set is my largest yet, and I've decided this year to divide it by theme. First up, 'Bending', which encompasses serious & not-so-serious looks at beings with complex gender/species identities.

Also, because of the size of the set, my top ten picks are starred (***)

( 5 recs in Fairy tales, Galaxy Quest, Georgette Heyer, Hainish Cycle, The Matrix... )

A new chapter of my long-running Friday's Child AU novella, in which it is Eudora Bagshot, not Hero, whom Sherry encounters on the wall, is up at my fiction journal. The earlier parts can be found at AO3 & Skyehawke.

Eleven: In Which Some Pieces of the Puzzle Come to Light
Mr Ringwood's taste in reading matter inclined more to the racing results ( Read more... )

( Cut for length: 17 recs in Canterbury Tales, Lord Peter Wimsey, Maurice, A Room with a View, Cotillion, I, Claudius, Mansfield Park, Emma, Little House on the Prairie, Jeeves & Wooster, Sherlock Holmes, Silmarillion, Neuromancer )

A long rare-lit selection. The Vorkosigan story is from an earlier year, before altariel tempted me in

( AS Byatt, Cadfael, Narnia, Dark is Rising, Diana Wynne Jones, Lord Peter Wimsey, Georgette Heyer, Shakespeare, Jane Eyre, Neil Gaiman, Vorkosigan, Watership Down )

Cinderella, Interrupted, my Georgette Heyer (Friday's Child) short-turned-epic, now has another chapter (hopefully the penultimate one) at Skyehawke.

Ten: In Which Our Tale Acquires Some Tangles

My Georgette Heyer (Friday's Child) WiP, Cinderella, Interrupted now has two further chapters at Skyehawke.

Eight: In Which Our Heroine Does Not Lack for Partners
Nine: In Which Our Heroine's Feet are Swept from Beneath Her

My Georgette Heyer (Friday's Child) WiP, Cinderella, Interrupted now has three new chapters at Skyehawke.

Five: In Which Our Hero Bravely Faces Travails
Six: A Letter from London
Seven: An Unexpected Visitor

My Friday's Child WiP, Cinderella, Interrupted has a micro-update, in which the identity of the hero is, finally, revealed*.

(Don't know how much more I'll get to do on this, as the yuletide assignments are supposedly in cyberspace as I type, and I'm hopeless at writing more than one story at once.)

*This may get a booby prize for the longest wait for ( Read more... )