Author's take on fanfiction

[mandragora]

I've written before how much I enjoy Michelle West's work. And if you haven't read any of her books, what are you waiting for? They're wonderful. She also writes as Michelle Sagara BTW, although these are earlier works and less mature as a result than her later novels. They're well worth reading, though, IMO.

My impression of Michelle as a person is nothing but positive, as shown by her sympathetic response to the Anne Rice debacle. She's now posted her views on fanfiction here.

She's obviously sympathetic to the fannish impulse and if I felt the calling to write fanfiction about her novels I'm pleased that she'd have no problem in my doing so. In fact, though, I find her stories so densely layered and satisfying in themselves that the fanfiction impulse doesn't move me when reading them as I'm content to wait and see what she comes up with next, secure in the knowledge that anything I come up with won't be as good as anything Michelle writes. I just wish she could write faster so that the next instalment was now ready to be published. Sigh.

Comments

[akaspeedo.livejournal.com]

What kind of thing does she write?

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

Fantasy novels. Very intricate and detailed with superb world building. Her characters all feel very 'real' to me, both the men and the women. She isn't comfortable writing explicit sex scenes but does write good relationships. Most are het but there's at least one same sex.