The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Sue Krinard:

My God. When Serge told me about that, I was horrified.

My best wishes and sympathies!

TW @ 226...if your liege was a moron that's another matter

I think the French word for 'liege' is 'lige'. No matter what, the French word 'liège' is 'cork' in English.

"My cork, you are a moron."

Didn't one of the sequels of the 1950s movie The Fly have someone get shoved into the teleportation booth with a hamster? Yes, it does turn out the way you're thinking.

Ah, the Ig Nobels... One of their winners was a scientist whose research was about ducks and necrophilia. Really.

And I forgot to add ... if I'd seen more of wonderful girl protagonists like Lyra, I might have grown up relating more to heroines than heroes when I read my SF and fantasy. (I disdained female heroes for most of my teens and throughout my 20's, because the men were SO much more interesting in much of the SF that was being written. (I still relate as easily to male characters as female, if not more.) Andre Norton didn't quite win me over.

Now, of course, kids have so many other options, and I'm thrilled to see a girl take front and center stage in a fantasy film.

I'm usually a lurker because of a book that's way late, but I had to comment on THE GOLDEN COMPASS.

Okay ... I loved it. The critics are panning it, and I honestly don't see why. There were bits in the beginning that could have used more fleshing out, and I would have given a great deal to see a lot more of Daniel Craig, but I was fascinated throughout. Having not as yet read the books, I wasn't doing any of that sort of comparison, and I thought the film stood beautifully on its own. Nor did I feel the message was in any way obscured.

I loved the talking animals. I loved the fantastic cityscapes. I loved the sheer visual imagination on display in every frame. It was like one of my childhood fantasies come true.

As a professional storyteller, I'm usually quick to find flaws in movies and am not easy to please. But this film certainly pleased me, and I look forward to seeing the "unchopped" cut on DVD.

Dave Bell @ 58... "The Disemvoweller"? That nom-de-guerre is too much of a mouthful. We need something more snappy. Something like the "Bloodletter"?

Xopher @ 245... Serge? You have a new rival.

Better a Maillard reaction than a Maalox one, I guess.

Yes, Rikibeth, continue to talk about what you're passionate about. That's one thing Making Light is about.

Thanks to everyone for the welcome. I'd like to respond indivually, but I am WAAAY behind on the book that was technically due the 15th but will actually be turned in around the 30th because my editor is in Madagascar!

Sue

Hi. This is my first post here, but it resonated with me so much that I thought I'd dip my foot in.

(I'm Serge's wife, by the way, for those of you who know him.)

I also started out with fanfic, and this led directly to my writing my first novel. I'd written a number of unfinished short fanfic stories, never having even considered publishing them. In my younger years, I didn't even know one COULD publish them.

Then I helped produce (and did artwork for) a Beauty and the Beast fanzine (I'd become active in that fandom.) I found that all that reading (primarily F&SF) I'd done since my childhood had resulted in a natural ease with writing a real, finished story. And while it attracted no particular attention, a friend involved in the publishing industry read it and suggested I try writing a romance novel.

So, in spite of my utter ignorance of romance novels, I did. I created a werewolf hero (ubiquitous now in the romance genre, but mine was one of the first back then, and WAS probably the first non-cursed werewolf in the genre.) I managed to sell it on the second try (the first publisher didn't do contemporaries at the time, and found a werewolf hero a little too strange.)

I made lots of mistakes early in my career. But writing fanfic wasn't one of them, and if I had time, I think I'd still really enjoy it.

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