Book Cover Meme - Round 2 - Day 7

[elrhiarhodan]

Round Two of the Book Cover Meme, still ganked with love and gratitude from sallymn:

"Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. no explanations, no reviews: just covers."



Check the first comment to see if I can’t resist adding a bit of commentary. This time around, I think I’m rarely going to resist that urge.

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[elrhiarhodan]

I know, as a fan-fic writer, I'm supposed to despise CQY, but I really did love her St. Germain series.

Back when I was in high school, more than 40 years ago, I had become obsessed with vampire stories, and even then, there were a lot of them. Fred Saberhagen, a whole bunch of fantasy writers had vampires as heroes, and of course, Anne Rice. And in the pages of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, there was a very brief review of Path of the Eclipse, which was set in China! I really wanted to read it, but I couldn't find it in my local bookstore and it wasn't in my local library, either.

But when I was on a class trip to Gettysburg, I found it on the spinny rack in the motel's gift shop! Of all places!

[tjs_whatnot]

Why are we supposed to hate her as fanfic writers?

And isn't it cool when you have a fun story about how you acquired a beloved, sought after book? ❤️❤️

[elrhiarhodan]

She famously dissed all fanfic authors as thieves and morons (I don’t remember her exact words but you get my drift). I found that quite ironic since she didn’t create the idea of her most famous character as an immortal vampire, but borrowed it from other writers. 

On Apr 27, 2025, at 9:27 PM, tjs_whatnot - DW Comment <dw_null@dreamwidth.org> wrote:



tjs_whatnot replied to your Dreamwidth entry "Book Cover Meme - Round 2 - Day 7" in which you said:

Round Two of the Book Cover Meme, still ganked with love and gratitude from sallymn:

"Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. no explanations, no reviews: just covers."



Check the first comment to see if I can’t resist adding a bit of commentary. This time around, I think I’m rarely going to resist that urge.

The reply was:

Why are we supposed to hate her as fanfic writers?

And isn't it cool when you have a fun story about how you acquired a beloved, sought after book? ❤️❤️

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[minoanmiss]

I think it was... fashionable, almost, for many authors to feel great ownership not only of their creations but of how their readers mentally interacted with those creations. Hopefully people are getting less pearl-clutchy about that these days.

[elrhiarhodan]

Yes, it was definitely fashionable. There was a whole litany of authors who dissed the ficcers and thought themselves cool. And then had to walk it back. Yarbro, Gabeldon, a few others whose names escape me. I do recall that JKR was once lauded for telling WB to stop prosecuting the fic writers who weren't monetizing their works. Now, the bitch needs to be burned at the stake.