Wynde Around the Web: March 6, 2014
I got a lovely shout out from Natacha Guyot’s Transmedia and Fandom blog.
Flaunting My Diversity by Tricia Barr is another good read. I haven’t got around to reading Tricia’s novel Wynde, but I am very much looking forward to doing it later this year! I like Tricia’s posts and this one is no exception. The way she approaches diversity not only in her own storytelling but how she includes some of views on the topic in general is very compelling.
As a scholar and writer, Natacha has posted insightful pieces on fandom and media, with an eye toward how transmedia will change storytelling. She also participates in fandom as a vidder and “collaborates on fanfiction projects.” From her About page:
I believe in incorporating fannished practices into academic ones, as some fan creations can be interesting teaching tools. I also consider fan creations to participate to a new kind of oral tradition, with transmedia franchises working as some kind of new mythical system, when it comes to storytelling.
Stories have always been important to me, either as a viewer/reader or as a writer. I tend to have a special interest to strong (in many possible and unique ways) female characters, as some of my writings and talks show. As for my long term taste for Science Fiction, it encompasses many aspects of that genre, not simply the vast imaginary it may display, but also the themes that run through its narratives. I owe my decision to go into media studies to George Lucas’s Star Wars (with a special mention to a good many EU writers of the nineties), Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Gladiator, Rockne O’Bannon’s Farscape, C.J. Cherryh’s Serpent’s Reach, and many more.
Emphasis mine. I encourage you to check out Natacha’s site as she chronicles the evolution of fandom and storytelling from an academic-fan’s perspective.a
Just a reminder: My book Wynde is out now and here are all the things you can do to support it.
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Tricia Barr's novel, Wynde, won the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Ebook. She was also part of Silence in the Library's successful all-female creator science fiction and fantasy anthology Athena's Daughters, which is available now. For excerpts and tales of her adventures in creating a fictional universe, hop over to TriciaBarr.com.
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