I did a guest blog of YA recommendations at Culinary Carnivale. My recs probably will not surprise anyone who knows me or regularly reads here!

This post's purpose is to collect my common tags in one place, so readers (and I!) can easily access entries on several subjects.

What do you consider to be fanfiction classics?

I ask in reference to the panel below, which I'm moderating. Note the last sentence. I have my own mental list, but would appreciate additions to it.

Fanfic as Criticism (Only More Fun)Fanfiction is being produced online at a rate of millions of words per month. Fanfiction can expand on a shorter ( Read more... )

Poll Choose Oracne's BEA Reading

Recently I dug through my TBR boxes and grouped together all the "skinny" Regency romances I'd been collecting, mostly via BookMooch.com.

I think this is all of them, but am not entirely sure. Most of these I found via recommendation of one sort or another.

Comments, recommendations, etc. are all welcome!

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For a Philcon panel I'm moderating this weekend on fantasy from non-European sources, does anyone have suggestions? I already made notes on questions to bring up and made my own list, mostly of young adult fantasy (Goto, Okorafor, Pon, Farmer, Wein), but your collective brain is better, and some of you might have read more brand new books than I ( Read more... )

Anybody have any really good resources on vampire mythology? Say, that I should look at before moderating my Worldcon panel on vampires?

Thanks!

Poll Worldon 2009 Reading Poll

Poll Readercon 2009 Reading!

See? Very calm now, that my book is out. Calm. Yes, indeed. Very calm.

For travel reading, I decided on by Sherry Thomas, which I no longer have to hoard now that I know she'll have another book [Not Quite a Husband
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