Lynn Flewelling

Lynn Flewelling is a professional writer who is best known for her Nightrunner series. Her work is popular amongst slash fans as a few of her book characters are bisexual. 
==Bibliography==
=== Novels ===
==== Nightrunner Series ====
* Luck in the Shadows (Bantam Spectra, 1996)
* Stalking Darkness (Bantam Spectra, 1997)
* Traitor's Moon (Bantam Spectra, 1999)
* Shadows Return (Bantam Spectra; June 24, 2008)
* The White Road (Bantam Spectra, May, 2010)
* Casket of Souls (Bantam Spectra, Spring, 2012)
* Shards of Time (Del Rey, 2014)
==== Tamír Triad ====
* The Bone Doll's Twin (Bantam Spectra, 2001)
* Hidden Warrior (Bantam Spectra, 2003)
* Oracle's Queen (Bantam Spectra; June, 2006
=== Short Stories ===
* "Letter To Alexi" Prisoners of the Night, 1995
* "Raven's Cut" Assassin Fantastic anthology, Martin Greenberg and Alex Potter, ed. DAW books.
* "The Complete Nobody's Guide to Query Letters" Speculations, 1999, reprinted on SFWA website and in The Writer's Guide to Queries, Pitches and Proposals by Moira Allen, Allsworth Press (2001)
* "Perfection" Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Steven Savile and Alethea Kontis, ed, TOR Books, 2006.
* "Glimpses" (3 Crow Press, September 2010) - A Collection of Nightrunner Short Stories
* "Glimpses 2" (3 Crow Press, Fall 2011) - A Collection of Nightrunner Short Stories
==Attitudes Towards Fan Fiction==
Sometime in 1999, fans of Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series set up a mailing list on OneList. Lynn Flewelling joined the mailing list (Night_Runner) and began interacting with her fanbase. In October of 1999, a fan posted a link to a website containing fan fiction based on Lynn's characters. Lynn then sent the following message to all members of the mailing list, copying her editor: 
She then elaborated in a later message to the mailing list: The list owners, after some debate, suggested that one way Lynn could avoid running into competing copyright claims on her characters (ala the Marion Zimmer Bradley case) was to unsubscribe from the mailing list.
Needless to say this did not go over well and Lynn and some of her fans left to form an official fanfiction-free mailing list on what would later become Yahoo Groups. It is called "Flewelling" and continues to operate today.
The topic of fan fiction does crop up from to time on the Flewelling mailing list and Lynn has repeated her "no fan fiction" position on several occasions. In 2001, she described the Night_Runner experience as the following: 
:"I don't feel a bit guilty or apologetic about speaking my mind on this subject, just scared. ;-) I got chewed up and spat out by a certain Other Group a couple of years back and it was a bruising experience, and a bit frightening to be told, "You don't matter. They belong to us now."Re: Opinions on Fanfiction?, sent by Lynn Flewelling to the Flewelling mailing list, dated November 18, 2001, publicly accessible without membership March 31, 2011.
By 2004, she had processed the experience to the extent that she was able to offer the following to her fanbase:
In her message, she also touched briefly on Japanese copyright law as it applies to doujinshi before going on to say that she had no problem with fan art, poetry or songs based on her writing.
==References==
Category:Science Fiction Authors