The Hidden People
Moving to AO3
I was chatting with my daughter, saying that I felt it was somewhat odd to mix a fantasy romance with a Substack on legal, political and academic issues. “Put it on Archive of Our Own,” suggested my daughter. “It might be a better fit there.”
I think she’s right. The people who want to read my fiction probably aren’t the same as the people who want to read my non-fiction.
So I’ve posted what I’ve already released on Substack to AO3, and posted Chapter 9 on AO3 today. You can still get each new chapter emailed from AO3 if you found that function of Substack convenient. If people indicate a wish in comments or privately, I can continue posting a weekly post in Substack with a link to each new chapter.
(Er. You may find a bunch of other stuff by me on AO3, riffing off a bunch of other books: mainly extended fan fiction of Lord of the Rings, post-the main books, and Georgette Heyer’s Regency romances. Yeah. What can I say? I didn’t sleep well in lockdown and kept “sane”1 by writing in the middle of the night. Gradually finding all this stuff I wrote.)
For a given value of sane.
Do keep letting people know where the rest of the novel can be found once a week, if you don't mind, because there are people who subscribe to this substack purely for the novel (I'm thinking of our mutual friend James H).