Author: Mercedes Lackey

[marbleglove]

It had been a while since I read any Mercedes Lackey so I've been going back to read and/or re-read some of her books. Particularly since Methos as a Herald of Valdemar continues to pester me. Anyway, her books are a lot of fun even if they don't have particularly sophisticated plot or character development. However, the one thing that suddenly struck me was that here is a mainstream writer who has canonical slash. Is that not cool? I can't, off the top of my head, think of any other book or series that has it so casually in place, where the book is still plot driven and, oh yes, the love interest happens to be same-sex as the main character. Lackey has written a lot of books and sometimes they're slash, sometimes they're het, sometimes they're gen, but they're always no more than PG-13. I just thought that was very cool. If you can think of any other author who writes like this, let me know.

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Re: thanks, oh and here's an author

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

If it's been 14 years, then it's high time to try again. After all, I imagine a lot has changed over the years, maybe you've gotten better. And it's such a fun little story: you should at least try. Please?

And yeah, I have read all of Bujold's published writing. She's awesome. I was about to say that I couldn't think of any slash in it aside from some of Aral's backstory, but then I remembered: Ethan of Athos. I don't know how I could have forgotten him. Did I forget anything else?