Aveline was a brilliant but quiet girl who learned how to speak the secret Birdtongue from her scholarly father, a skill known only by three people in the entire kingdom. Not quite peasant, but not of nobility, she had long accepted the fact that any marriage would require one person or the other to have to "marry down." So she was content with her studies and immersed herself in the language of the birds. But all that would change when a strange blue bird arrived . . .
Aras was a noble lord. When he became aware of a sorceress's attempt to usurp the kingdom, she transformed him...
Aveline was a brilliant but quiet girl who learned how to speak the secret Birdtongue from her scholarly father, a skill known only by three people...
Challenging readers to rethink what they read and why, the author questions the aesthetic assumptions that have led to the devaluing of fanfiction--a genre criticized as both tasteless and derivative--and other "guilty pleasure" reading (and writing), including romance and fantasy. The complicated relationship between "fanfic" and intellectual property rights is discussed in light of the millennia-old tradition of derivative literature, before modern copyright law established originality as the hallmark of great fiction. "Absorbed reading"--the practice of immersing oneself in the...
Challenging readers to rethink what they read and why, the author questions the aesthetic assumptions that have led to the devaluing of fanfi...
