geekyNovels.
Pocket Apocalypse
A Red-Rose Chain
Chimera
Novellas.
"Rolling in the Deep"
"Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus"
Novelettes.
"The Way Home"
"Down, Deep Down, Below the Waves"
Short stories.
"No Sooner Met"
"Broken Paper Hearts"
"There is No Room For Sorrow in the Kingdom of the Cold"
"In Skeleton Leaves"
"The Happiest Place..."
"Resistance"
"The Myth of Rain"
"The Star of New Mexico"
"The Moon Inside"
"Survival Horror"
"Reading Lists"
"Something Lost, Something Gained"
"Into the Green"
"Hello, Hello"
"Fiber"
"Snake in the Glass"
Non-fiction.
"That Nitro-9 That You're Not Carrying: Violence and the Companion" in Companion Piece
I also edited Queers Destroy Science Fiction, which I am choosing to believe explains why my output was down from 2014 (well, that, and I was sort of scary depressed for most of the year, and when I'm depressed, I write less). And even with the decrease, that is...that's a lot when I put it all in one place like that. I'm going to back away slowly, and maybe go drink something fizzy and faintly alcoholic.
Yes.
January 3 2016, 05:14:29 UTC 1 year ago
January 4 2016, 17:13:01 UTC 1 year ago
You can ask, but I won’t answer.
I’m not trying to be coy, and it’s not like it’s one of the great mysteries of our time–it’s pretty easy to figure out if you have the title of anything fic I’ve written, and since some of my older stories are tied to my real name, you can find that part with Google. But…
Part of why I’m putting things on AO3 is I’ve been fighting a war with myself over whether or not to take everything down completely. I don’t want to do that. I am not in any way ashamed of my fanfic, past, present, or future (because I have no intention of stopping Yuletide, even if that’s the only time I write fic all year). But when I say “I am Seanan McGuire, I write books for a living, here is my fanfic, some of it is ancient,” I have had people reply by critiquing my fanfic as if it were professionally edited, professionally published work.
I know I’m the one who just said “comments and kudos are the cookies fanfic writers live for,” and I meant it. But there’s a big difference between “gosh, you write good Barry Ween, thanks” and “because you are a published novelist, I am within my rights to review this piece of smutty fanfic absolutely ruthlessly, and if you don’t like it, you’re an author behaving badly.” Unsolicited criticism has never been a big part of my fanfic experience, and by tying my professional name to my fannish one, I bring that unsolicited criticism down on my own head.
I hope this makes sense to you. It barely makes sense to me.
January 4 2016, 21:43:58 UTC 1 year ago