Erin A. Bisson

Erin A. Bisson is a science fiction and fantasy author whose works have been plagued by malicious wrangling on AO3 and who was outed by the AO3 tag wranglers in 2017. This has been a somewhat common topic of discussion on fail_fandomanon.
Her first book, the fantasy novel King of Bones, was published in 2012 and has been nominated several times for Yuletide; its prequel Fire and Thorn was published in 2014. Her stand-alone science fiction works are Machine City Knights (published 2013), Reunification (published 2015), and Triskelion (published 2016). She has also written fanfiction of her own work for fannish challenges, which she describes as "pseudo-canon at most."A Central Post For Keeping Track of AO3 Communication, posted by kalloway on 08 November 2017. (Accessed 31 July 2018.)
==AO3 tag wrangling strife and outing==
:For a more details and background, see AO3 Original Works and Self-Pub Wrangling Debacle
In a post on Dreamwidth in early November, 2017, kalloway wrote out a report of her recent communications with AO3 Support regarding the synning of the "King of Bones - Erin A. Bisson" fandom tag with the "Original Works" fandom tag. After some back-and-forth, the reply she got from AO3 Support detailing the wranglers' decision to synn the two tags was as follows:
Kalloway replied:
The author confirmed on her own Dreamwidth account that she had never linked her professional publishing name with her fannish identity on AO3.taichara (Erin A. Bisson) in her post AO3, near-doxxing, and arbitrary definition of "fanworks" as applied to Yours Truly. Posted 09 November 2017. (Accessed 31 July 2018.)
An anonymous wrangler on fail_fandomanon dug into the wrangling notes for the King of Bones fandom tag. There were two fandom tags, one without the middle name initial and one with the middle initial and both had notes linking the author's fannish AO3 and Dreamwidth identity with her publishing identity. The tag without the middle initial had its note written in April, 2017, while the tag with the middle initial had its note written in September, 2017. This is likely when they were respectively synned.Anonymous posting to fail_fandomanon on 02 December 2017. (Accessed 31 July 2018.)
By March, 2018, the "Machine City Knights - Erin A. Bisson" tag was re-canonized,Anonymous posting to fail_fandomanon on 11 March 2018. (Accessed 31 July 2018.) and although it was suggested that the reason was because a third author wrote something for the tag, that's also true of Triskelion which has not has its fandom tag re-canonized.
==Fanworks==
===King of Bones===
* Cup of Youth by kalloway
===Machine City Knights===
* with age, wisdom by misura
===Reunification===
* Caught by kalloway
===Triskelion===
* Let Your Hair Hang Loose by misura
* Inevitable by kalloway
===The Pale Gate===
(A short story published in the King of Bones prequel, Fire and Thorn.)
* Routines by kalloway
===AO3 tags===
* King of Bones (canonized)
* Machine City Knights (canonized)
* Reunification (synned with Original Works)
* Triskelion (synned with Original Works)
* The Pale Gate (synned with Original Works)
===AO3 searches that actually display the fanworks===
* King of Bones
* Machine City Knights
* Reunification
* Triskelion
* The Pale Gate
==References==
Category:Books & Literature