Promote your favorite Sutcliff book(s)!

[isis]

We're going to post the Sutcliff Swap rules and schedule, and open for sign-ups, Real Soon Now! But while you're waiting, why not squee about your favorite Sutcliff book in the comments here? This is your chance to remind others of that book they'd almost forgotten they'd loved, and inspire them to request or offer fanfiction or fanart for it. And if a book you haven't read sounds good to you, you can read it this summer and enjoy the fanworks created for it - and maybe you'll want to request it for Yuletide or Yuletart, or for next year's Sutcliff Swap. (Because this is going to be so much fun we will want to do it again!)

We're doing this on Dreamwidth only, so that we can use comment subject lines to identify the books we're talking about. If you don't have a Dreamwidth login, you can use OpenID or comment anonymously. ETA: anonymous commenting is now enabled! OpenID works too, which will email you comment replies. Please join in and promote your favorite Sutcliff books (this post has a list of all the books), and start thinking about what you might want to request and offer for the Sutcliff Swap!

Also, if you are intrigued by the descriptions of books you haven't read yet, you should be sure to join, not just watch, the community (at either site) so you can see locked posts. *cough*

Comments

Re: Blood Feud

[tryfanstone]

Hah! Yes to the blood feud. Erland... without bothering to wiki, I *think* he's either real or based on someone who is. Could be wrong there.

- google tells me, there are Silkbeards of the Erland line in the right period. But nothing more. Backstory... I am not sure: I absolutely see where you're coming from, but almost... I don't know. I'm thinking, heading towards original fiction (nothing wrong in that) and then I thought, but with the right style... eh. Well worth considering!

Re: Blood Feud

[carmarthen]

Yeah, the reason Erland interests me is that he's one of those characters at a cultural interface, which is one of my favorites of Sutcliff's recurring themes. And it would likely be heading towards original fiction, as backstory for minor characters tends to do, but it's one of my favorite subgenres of fanfiction anyway.

I'm not requesting it this time around, though, unless I change my mind in the next couple weeks.