2019 Fandom Promo!

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Welcome to the Fandom Promo post, everyone!

Here's where you get those eyes on your fandoms for sign ups!

Share what makes your Yuletide fandoms the shiniest and why you love them. A big part of Yuletide is how small our fandoms can be, and this is a good way to make sure other people know what gems there are out there!

Suggested form to use:

<b>FANDOM NAME</b>:
<b>WHAT MAKES IT GREAT</b>:
<b>WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional)</b>:


For reference, last year's promo post!

This post on LJ

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[reflectedeve]

FANDOM NAME: A Song For A New Day - Sarah Pinsker

WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Rock’n’roll, rebellion and community organizing in a dystopian near-future of shut-ins and near-total corporate homogenization.

Luce Cannon, a queer ex-Orthdox-Jewish rock star, was riding the wave of her first hit when the attacks started; first there were bombings in high-occupancy settings like ballparks on game day, and then the onset of a deadly and highly contagious pandemic. Survivors were scared indoors, “congregation laws” were passed to prohibit large gatherings, and America became a nation of shut-ins who lived the majority of their lives via online/drone-delivered consumerism. Musicians either signed with a monolithic corporation to play virtual “concerts” within approved demographic and aesthetic parameters, or they went underground, forming secret rock clubs in basements and abandoned warehouses, dodging curews and police. And years after the threats are over, these corporations really don’t want anyone to mess with the status quo … but they do always need new musical acts to package and sell.

Rosemary Laws was just a kid when the Crash hit, and she’s grown up living an isolated life with her parents in a tiny farm town, rarely venturing outside their own property. School was virtual, and so is her job as a highly competent customer service rep for SuperWally, a corporation so ubiquitous that most transactions are handled with their own in-house digital currency. But everything changes when she scores a free ticket to a digital rock show, and she finds herself getting recruited as a talent scout for the nation’s biggest digital music label/concert producer; a job that comes with travel, investigation, and exposure to more people than she has ever met in real life in her life. It’s a sort of small-town-girl meets city life story, but with a lot more agency and moral complexity on the girl’s part.

Romance, betrayal, freedom, accessibility, and different generations finding common ground: there’s so much to dig into here, and it’s such a fun ride!

WHERE TO FIND IT: Bookstores, libraries and e-book sellers of all kinds! This is a new release, so on the one hand, it’s probably everywhere. (On the other, there might be a decent wait at the library.)