Which table am I supposed to sit at?

[j_cheney]

In response to the HS metaphor going around just now, I went and read this post and laughed myself silly.

My big problem is....where am I supposed to sit, exactly?

A few people have suggested I should go sit with the SteamPunk kids, due to the time period in which I set a lot of my work, but really! I don't have a black leather corset...and if I did, I wouldn't wear it to school. I'll never fit in! Hmmmph!

Perhaps over with the history geeks? Novik might be nice to talk to...
The romance table? Bujold and Asaro are pretty cool, though, and probably don't want to talk to an associate HS student like me....

Where did Martha Wells go sit? Caroline Stevermer? They're nice. Anyone seen Teresa Edgerton? Susan Dexter? Are they at school here?

::still wandering around::

Comments

[lisamantchev.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I read that post and loffed a little, and then decided that if Jay is a newcomer then I am the kid being homeschooled...

[janni.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that I want to go sit at the children's table, but I see that's been covered. :-) (But they wouldn't be in line, they'd be over dipping their french fries in ketchup and complaining they can't eat the pizza because it has stuff on it.)

[tlmorganfield.livejournal.com]

I'd definitely be planted at the historical table, complaining loudly about having to take mideval history classes, and writing long treatises on Mesoamerican mythology and history. I might occassionally wander over to the high fantasy table and look around, but then decide I don't really belong there, since my stuff features no horses or steel swords.

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

I'm still over in Kindergarten, coloring in pretty word-pictures.

Martin

[namelessarchon.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite part of this was the rip on George R.R. Martin. I have never been more disappointed in an author than Mr. Martin with 'A feast for Crows'. That book should have been called 'Thief of your $30'. Even I have never seen an author actually apologize for the book you just read at the end of his own text! He should have done more than apologize... oh, actually HE DID! He lied, bold-faced, in saying that he decided to break his huge tome into two volumes instead of one huge one so that he could include more for us in the next book which was coming out right after the crap he just decieved us into reading after an already miserable three year wait. Hmmmm, and that was TWO FREAKING YEARS AGO! I will never, EVER, read Martin again, period! Sorry, but just the mention of his name gets me all kinds of worked up. NOTE: Do not claim a book to be part of an ongoing series if it has nothing to do with your main characters!