Well, here's a thing.

[panik]

Joanne Harris on her latest novel, Blueeyedboy.

I'd been going through some troublesome times, and my sunny disposition had taken something of a blow. I found I didn’t want to write, and spent far too much time online, hanging around various sites and searching out ever more ingenious ways of evading reality. Under a pseudonym, I made a number of online friends, wrote a great deal of fanfic, and began to take an increasing interest in the way people interact online, the communities they create and join, and the way they choose to portray themselves. I began to understand that the small communities that have always informed my writing also exist in the virtual world, with the same little cliques of insiders, outsiders, gossips, liars, exhibitionists and bullies as in the “real” world. I understood too, how emotionally dependent people can sometimes become on their virtual friends and their virtual communities, even though there can be no way of knowing how honest these avenues of communication really are.

From all this came Blueeyedboy, a dark psychological thriller set in the world of the internet, where no-one is quite what they seem to be, and every taste is catered for, even the ones to which we dare not confess...

And now I need to know what her fandom is! And, yes, since you ask, I am posting like a mad eejit today.

Comments

[wneleh.livejournal.com]

And now I need to know what her fandom is!

Yeah, I've been wondering that too.

[ledh.livejournal.com]

i want to read that book! and yeah, what fic!? her own novels maybe? that'd be epic.

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Oh heck - I'm dying to know which fandom now. *g*

[http://users.livejournal.com/tesserae_/]

Looks like a really interesting book - and from the looks of it, it's definitely an lj-based fandom. Interesting!

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

I would also be dying of curiosity. Good luck with finding out!

[elfinessy.livejournal.com]

so I've absolutely just pre-ordered that at play.....