Your Cruise Director

Your Cruise Director, also known as Cruisedirector and Em Wycedee, is a fan writer who has been active for several decades. Her "given name" Em Wycedee, which sometimes appears on her stories, is derived from MYCD or M. Your Cruise Director. She has written in both het and slash fandoms, primarily Star Trek: Voyager, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter. She has been nominated for several Mithril Awards. Her works have been commented on during the ASC Awards, and received votes for the Golden Orgasms. She is a co-founder and moderator of several LiveJournal communities and was an early member of JetC.
Your Cruise Director's Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fic appeared in print zines such as The Temple Jewel and can be found in archives from Usenet and Geocities. She also wrote humor and essays for Now Voyager. She has written with collaborators including Becca O, DRush, Cybermum, Karelian, Ldybastet, Celandine and Schemingreader among others, though her most recent and frequent writing partner is Dementor Delta, with whom she has written The King's Speech and Les Misérables as well as Harry Potter.
==In Her Own Words==
Your Cruise Director was featured in The Best of Trek Fanfic Spotlight of the Month in March 2000.
See The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Your Cruise Director.
Some excerpts:
==Reviews==
Cruisedirector, in her Fourth Age story 'Seasons of Wonder'...puts Aragorn, Arwen, Faramir, and Eowyn in a polyamorous relationship. In this story, which inspired several spin-offs, the four characters find healing through multiple expressions of love for each other, a provocative and joyful interpretation of the Fourth Age as sexual utopia.Una McCormack, 'Finding Ourselves in the (Un)Mapped Lands: Women's Reparative Readings of The Lord of the Rings' in: Perilous And Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien (Janet Brennan Croft & Leslie Donovan, eds) (2015)
==Example Fanfiction==
* Uniform – Star Trek: VOY, possibly the first 'net J/C
* Drowning – Star Trek: Voyager. Often cited as Your Cruise Director's most-loved Janeway/Chakotay story.Messages to Mel: Favorite J/C fanfic (accessed 31 July 2014)
* Disclosure – The West Wing (Josh/Matt). theficklepickle writes: This is a perfect little gem of a story that all West Wing slash fans - even dyed in the wool Josh/Sam aficionadoes - should go out of their way to experience for themselves.epic-recs: Disclosure by Your Cruise Director (PG-13) (accessed 31 July 2014)
* Absolution – Snape/Harry alternate ending AU. secretsolitaire writes: The characterizations of Snape and Harry are perfect, true to canon...very moving, and well worth reading even if Snarry isn't your favorite pairing.secretsolitaire: Quick Rec: Snarry (accessed 31 July 2014)
* The Beauty of Their Dreams – The King's Speech. bluerosefairy writes: All the characters are so perfectly true to the movie...and ohhh, the voices. I can hear Bertie perfectly, the stutter and the perfect diction and the unholy glee he has of using vulgar language.fangirl-tour: Belated Sunday Recs (accessed 31 July 2014)
* Emblematic – LotR filmverse. Espresso Addict writes Piercing observations in this account of a day in the life of the FellowshipEspresso Recommendations: JRR Tolkien (accessed 12 August 2014)
* Semantics – MCU.
==Printzines==
* Delta Quadrant of Venus (1998)
==References==
Category:Fanwriters