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shadowkatI did that whole Female Writer post wrong last night. So trying again. What prompted this is the realization that most people online go on and on and on about their favorite "male" writers. It's Whedon this, or Moffat that, or David Milch, or Aaron Sorkin or RT Davis or Neil Gaiman or Gene Roddenberry, JJ Abhrams, and Ron Moore...but where are the ladies? Surely there are female writers in the film, television, and fan world that you adore?
So trying this again.
If you should happen upon this post - please come up with at least one, more if possible, female writers that you are "Fannish" about. That you adore! They can be novelist, they can be television writers, they can be playwrites or comic book writers. I'm betting most will be novelists. But try not to copy other people's. Yeah, I know everyone loves JK Rowling, but any one else?
Let's Celebrate the Female Writers that we are fans of.
Here's mine - these are writers that I'm a fan of and follow their books or stories religiously.
And railed at, just like I've railed at the male equivalent.
1. Jane Espenson. She's written for just about every science fiction/fantasy tv show on. Started with Star Trek - DS9, Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, BattleStar Galatica, was the show-runner for Caprica and Tru Calling at different points, wrote for Torchwood (although I haven't seen it), and the only woman writer for Game of Thrones last year, has written comic books, and is currently writing the best episodes of ABC's new hit series Once Upon a Time. She can write comedy or drama. And she's down-to-earth. With a blog. I've been known to follow Jane E about, and she is by far my favorite writer of the Whedon series as a person. OR the only one I'd want to sit down and have tea with.
2. Kim Harrison of the Rachel Morgan Bounty Hunter series - yes, a novelist, and while not brilliant always, I adore her characters. And her story which is truly unique in the urban fantasy universe. One of the few that blends science with gothic horror fantasy. And a female noire tale to boot. Start with Dead Witch Walking and go from there. Also in the world-building department?
Few are her equals.
3. JK Rowlings...Harry Potter Books - I doing her, so no one else will. I'm evil that way. But I also adore Rowling's. She created a world. The detail of it is quite extraordinary. It's a child's fantasy world - or a world a child would dream up not an adult, with fantastical candies and jokes.
It also addresses adult and child issues such as classism, bullying, racism, and discrimination in a manner that is accessible to everyone. Rowlings doesn't preach in her novels or tells, she shows you her world and lets you play inside it.
4. Jane Austen - was always a fan of Austen. But yet another novelist. Dang-it. What I loved most about Austen was the banter. She was hilarious. Her books are satirical takes on her time and the manners and etiquette of that time period. They last, because the issues she had with class continue today, along with gender.
5. Anne McCaffrey - another novelist...all of mine are novelists, this is a problem. I've read all of her books, I think or most of them. My favorites were the dragon-riders of Pern series, because hello, telepathic dragons. (Now not so much a fan, so probably shouldn't be listed here...I haven't read her in over 20 years. Sort of how I feel about her male counterpart CS Lewis, who I loved and abandoned in much the same manner).
I can't think of any film writers that I've followed faithfully, maybe Kathryn Bigelow, but she's a director not a writer. Diane English - I loved Murphy Brown but little else. I don't know.
Can you think of female film and television writers that you adored. And watched whatever they did with the same fannish glee that you might fellow male counterparts such as Joss Whedon or Stephen Moffat? Who are your goddesses of the written word?
So trying this again.
If you should happen upon this post - please come up with at least one, more if possible, female writers that you are "Fannish" about. That you adore! They can be novelist, they can be television writers, they can be playwrites or comic book writers. I'm betting most will be novelists. But try not to copy other people's. Yeah, I know everyone loves JK Rowling, but any one else?
Let's Celebrate the Female Writers that we are fans of.
Here's mine - these are writers that I'm a fan of and follow their books or stories religiously.
And railed at, just like I've railed at the male equivalent.
1. Jane Espenson. She's written for just about every science fiction/fantasy tv show on. Started with Star Trek - DS9, Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, BattleStar Galatica, was the show-runner for Caprica and Tru Calling at different points, wrote for Torchwood (although I haven't seen it), and the only woman writer for Game of Thrones last year, has written comic books, and is currently writing the best episodes of ABC's new hit series Once Upon a Time. She can write comedy or drama. And she's down-to-earth. With a blog. I've been known to follow Jane E about, and she is by far my favorite writer of the Whedon series as a person. OR the only one I'd want to sit down and have tea with.
2. Kim Harrison of the Rachel Morgan Bounty Hunter series - yes, a novelist, and while not brilliant always, I adore her characters. And her story which is truly unique in the urban fantasy universe. One of the few that blends science with gothic horror fantasy. And a female noire tale to boot. Start with Dead Witch Walking and go from there. Also in the world-building department?
Few are her equals.
3. JK Rowlings...Harry Potter Books - I doing her, so no one else will. I'm evil that way. But I also adore Rowling's. She created a world. The detail of it is quite extraordinary. It's a child's fantasy world - or a world a child would dream up not an adult, with fantastical candies and jokes.
It also addresses adult and child issues such as classism, bullying, racism, and discrimination in a manner that is accessible to everyone. Rowlings doesn't preach in her novels or tells, she shows you her world and lets you play inside it.
4. Jane Austen - was always a fan of Austen. But yet another novelist. Dang-it. What I loved most about Austen was the banter. She was hilarious. Her books are satirical takes on her time and the manners and etiquette of that time period. They last, because the issues she had with class continue today, along with gender.
5. Anne McCaffrey - another novelist...all of mine are novelists, this is a problem. I've read all of her books, I think or most of them. My favorites were the dragon-riders of Pern series, because hello, telepathic dragons. (Now not so much a fan, so probably shouldn't be listed here...I haven't read her in over 20 years. Sort of how I feel about her male counterpart CS Lewis, who I loved and abandoned in much the same manner).
I can't think of any film writers that I've followed faithfully, maybe Kathryn Bigelow, but she's a director not a writer. Diane English - I loved Murphy Brown but little else. I don't know.
Can you think of female film and television writers that you adored. And watched whatever they did with the same fannish glee that you might fellow male counterparts such as Joss Whedon or Stephen Moffat? Who are your goddesses of the written word?
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Date: 2012-02-17 06:07 am (UTC)So yes, I had to turn to novels to find writers I have to read everything of:
1. Diana Wynne Jones. The small way of phrasing it would be to call her a children's fantasy writer. But that depends on one's view of "fantasy" and "children". She gleefully blends genres and creates plots so complex adults have a hard time following them. (Some may actually be easier for children.) She's definitely my favourite author, and I'm very close to having read everything of hers.
2. Selma Lagerlöf. Sweden's most lauded author, with her face on the 20kr bill. She's been said to be the only Swedish author who would have got the Nobel prize even if she'd been of some other nationality. And she's really that good. Though most of her stories are based in some sort of magic realism, there's also a great variety in them, so that the same trilogy (the Lowenskolds) can contain a gothic ghost story, an Austenite story of gentlefolks, and a more rustic story of a young peddler.
3. Agatha Christie. Her books are popcorn fluff (for the most part) and several of them resemble each other, but I love to dive into one and experience that slightly off-kilter English world where people find a corpse and rush to have a cup of tea. :-) I own about 40 of her books and buy new ones whenever the mood strikes.
4. Claque/Anna Lisa Wärnlöf. Another Swedish author, who wrote YA books about 50 years ago. At least two of them have been translated to English, according to Library of Congress: The Boy Upstairs and Fredrika's Children. She has a very wry yet touching way of writing, and unlike most YA fiction, her characters feel utterly real to me. (See also Winnie Holzman in my comment to the other post.) Fredrike's characterization in The Boy Upstairs may be the best exploration of a post-divorce teenager I've ever seen.
5. Pija Lindenbaum. Another Swedish writer, this time of picture books. She has a wild, wonderful use of colours, and her stories are equally wild and wonderful, often with a new aspect on gender roles.
6. Lise Myhre. Norwegian creator of the comic Nemi, which is also available in English. Yes, I know that this is dangerously close to my previous comment of "women who have done one show I love", but since Nemi is so long-running I think following it can almost be called following Lise. Especially considering how much I love it. Nemi likes to party and have one-night-stands (at least before she started dating Grimm), and she also likes (loves!) fantasy in every shape and form. She's into metal, and cute little puppies, and she will steal all the balls from Burger King's ball pits while drunk, because YAY BALL PIT!
7. Oh dear, there are so many Swedish writers that I'd read anything of, but who haven't been properly translated... Barbro Alving, Gun-Britt Sundström... Maria Gripe has been translated, but not some of her best books (The Shadow series! Why no translation? Why?) and I can't claim to be a fan of all of her work. (Definitely read Agnes Cecilia, though, or The Glassblower's Children.) Almost everything of Astrid Lindgren's has been translated, but again, I can't quite claim to be a fan of all of her work.
From the previous post, I'd say I follow Lemhagen and the comedians to about the same extent I follow Whedon or Sorkin: I'll be interested in anything they write, but the premise and reviews will still determine whether or not I end up seeing it.
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Date: 2012-02-18 01:06 am (UTC)Especially for the Swedish writers...I really love seeing non-US/non-English writers.