Silver in the Wood
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psocopteraHm, actual review first and then funny anecdote afterwards. Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh, there's a wild man in the wood, and he meets the woods' new owner. I liked this a lot; lots of great tree imagery. It's on the short end of novella range but exactly the right length for the story.
And the anecdote... I had heard about this as one of Tor's 2019 novellas and had put it on my to-read list, but at low priority. I don't read everything Tor puts out but I consider most of it. :) Then I was poking around in my personal Yuletide history and realized that one of my former recipients had deleted their account, and in trying to see if I could figure out why, discovered that she had written Silver in the Wood (!) and it used to be up on AO3 as an original work, although I had never read it. I assume she took it down (and orphaned the rest of her fic, at least the ones I could remember enough about to find) once she sold it to Tor, or when she decided to try to sell it or whatever. Anyways, this immediately vaulted it to high priority to read, and indeed, I think I can see the fic writer's voice (whose stuff I quite liked) in here. I'm sorry she's left fandom, though. I guess we can hope she's still around under another name, but I'll never know. (She thanks her AO3 readers in the book acknowledgments, btw, so I think it's okay for me to talk about here. I would love it if the world got to the point where we could always link fanfic and profic bibliographies as a matter of course, but I know many authors want to keep a separation.)
And the anecdote... I had heard about this as one of Tor's 2019 novellas and had put it on my to-read list, but at low priority. I don't read everything Tor puts out but I consider most of it. :) Then I was poking around in my personal Yuletide history and realized that one of my former recipients had deleted their account, and in trying to see if I could figure out why, discovered that she had written Silver in the Wood (!) and it used to be up on AO3 as an original work, although I had never read it. I assume she took it down (and orphaned the rest of her fic, at least the ones I could remember enough about to find) once she sold it to Tor, or when she decided to try to sell it or whatever. Anyways, this immediately vaulted it to high priority to read, and indeed, I think I can see the fic writer's voice (whose stuff I quite liked) in here. I'm sorry she's left fandom, though. I guess we can hope she's still around under another name, but I'll never know. (She thanks her AO3 readers in the book acknowledgments, btw, so I think it's okay for me to talk about here. I would love it if the world got to the point where we could always link fanfic and profic bibliographies as a matter of course, but I know many authors want to keep a separation.)
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