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Aug 05, 2008 22:11

So, uh, hello! I’m Hans, a.k.a. hansbekhart, and oxoniensis invited me to be this month’s Ask The Author. After a whole lot of stammering and blushing and trying not to be embarrassing about it, I said I’d love to ( Read more... )

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layne67 August 6 2008, 08:54:13 UTC

Who are your favourite authors? Published ones, I mean. And what are your five favourite books?

hansbekhart August 7 2008, 20:06:13 UTC

Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite author, hands down, no contest. After that, I really like ... Dorothy Sayers, Stephen King, Tom Robbins, Isabelle Allende, Dostoevsky ... would it make me sound like a pretentious idiot to list Shakespeare? My five favorite books would probably be ... hmmm.

1. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (also a toss up with Slaughterhouse-Five)
2. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole
3. The Little Prince (I won't even try to spell the author's name ... Exupery?)
4. Gaudy Night, by Dorothy Sayers
5. The Dark Tower series, by Stephen King

My sister says that it explains a lot about me that my favorite author is Vonnegut, but I'm not sure what she means by that.

moonys_autumn August 6 2008, 13:57:13 UTC

What's the best fanfic you've ever read? (you know it's the one I sent you on a note card a couple Christmases ago, hehehe ;) )

hansbekhart August 11 2008, 02:52:15 UTC

Had to think about this one, clearly! My favorite fanfic, which is kind of a weird one, is Touch Up, by eloise_bright. It's really short, but something about it really just hits me. The Month of Open Doors was the first SPN fic I ever read, and seriously amazing. For other fandoms .... Respectably Ever After makes me want to write epics devoted to the eternal love of Remus and Petunia. Pretty much every story that Jane St Claire has ever written. Catalyst, by Te, another X-Force writer.

Gosh, I got a lot of these. I could likely go on forever. This is my tag for favorites, but I've had that less than a year and it wouldn't cover anything I read back in HP. So the short answer is: yours on that Christmas card! It was unbelievably hot and so in character. :D

moonys_autumn August 11 2008, 02:58:57 UTC

I knew it. :D

riverbella August 6 2008, 14:43:20 UTC

Any time someone asks me for a good place to start reading Supernatural fanfic, I always point them at Beach Blanket Poltergeist (unless they ask for wincest right up front!) It also happens to be one of my favorites. But I've always wondered about the name. Why that?

Also, you were slashing at age 9? Now that's what I call precocious!

hansbekhart August 7 2008, 17:57:48 UTC

Man, that's awesome, thank you for that! Heh, actually, one of the most awesome comments I've ever gotten on BBP is that it's gen in the way that canon is gen - as in, really subtexty, I suppose :D.

The name - oh lord. I have a terrible time titling stories, absolutely terrible. That's how I end up with a lot of weirdass titles, or I bug my sister to think of one for me. Originally, the title of Beach Blanket Poltergeist was going to be In the Heart, after the book that inspired me on a lot of the mythology of the story, Santa Cruz Is In the Heart. That was the first time that I'd heard about that crazy priest, and just loved it. It also fit because originally, BBP was intended as a Wincest story, that during the course of revisiting an area close to Stanford and dealing with something so horrible, there would be some first time romancing in there somewhere. That's why I think it comes off as pretty subtexty - a lot of that survived the second draft, like the part where Dean walks out in nothing but a towel and Sam sort of ( ... )