Howdy:
Im Ysabeau Wilce My first published story Metal More Attractive came out in February F&SF and I have another story, a kinda fractured faery tale, someday to appear in Asimovs. Ive also got a YA novel in submission at Harcourt Childrens, and am working slooowly on an expansion of my FS&F story, as well as various self-published chapbooks. My work has been described by Greg Frost as screwball comedy for goths, a description I shall always cherish tho I am personally neither screwbally or a goth. Otherwise, Ive never considered my work within a specific genre or literary movement, but I have always been fascinated with borders and liminal spacesperhaps this is because Im a Westerner by birth, and the American West is all about borders, myths, transgressions and spaces between. (After seven years in Arizonaabout as liminal a place as you can get--I have just moved to Brooklyn, also a kind of borderland, but oh how I miss the blue sky.) Im also a historian by trainingsubject: American West, specifically Indian Wars, here again: colossal misunderstandings, encroachments, cultural shifts, intrusion, and blood. When I write I think a lot about how history is just well researched fantasy, and how gender is a social construction within the eye of the beholder, and how I love repetition, alliteration. When I read I like to think about what Im reading, but Im not a huge fan of theory, as I find that talking too much about a thingparticularly in the abstractoften keeps me from doing that very thing. Also I had a throatful of theory in Academia and am still trying to clear the dust from my lungsHowever, I do enjoy listening to other peoples discussionsI may not have much to add, but Im very happy to lurk and listen to everyone else discourse!
Cheers,
Ysabeau Wilce
www.yswilce.com
Read All About it:
The Alta Califa
Where Truth is a Virtue
And Lying an Art!
Im Ysabeau Wilce My first published story Metal More Attractive came out in February F&SF and I have another story, a kinda fractured faery tale, someday to appear in Asimovs. Ive also got a YA novel in submission at Harcourt Childrens, and am working slooowly on an expansion of my FS&F story, as well as various self-published chapbooks. My work has been described by Greg Frost as screwball comedy for goths, a description I shall always cherish tho I am personally neither screwbally or a goth. Otherwise, Ive never considered my work within a specific genre or literary movement, but I have always been fascinated with borders and liminal spacesperhaps this is because Im a Westerner by birth, and the American West is all about borders, myths, transgressions and spaces between. (After seven years in Arizonaabout as liminal a place as you can get--I have just moved to Brooklyn, also a kind of borderland, but oh how I miss the blue sky.) Im also a historian by trainingsubject: American West, specifically Indian Wars, here again: colossal misunderstandings, encroachments, cultural shifts, intrusion, and blood. When I write I think a lot about how history is just well researched fantasy, and how gender is a social construction within the eye of the beholder, and how I love repetition, alliteration. When I read I like to think about what Im reading, but Im not a huge fan of theory, as I find that talking too much about a thingparticularly in the abstractoften keeps me from doing that very thing. Also I had a throatful of theory in Academia and am still trying to clear the dust from my lungsHowever, I do enjoy listening to other peoples discussionsI may not have much to add, but Im very happy to lurk and listen to everyone else discourse!
Cheers,
Ysabeau Wilce
www.yswilce.com
Read All About it:
The Alta Califa
Where Truth is a Virtue
And Lying an Art!
) There are lots of references to mythology, fairy tales, folklore. You can check it out here: