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J.M. Frey

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Frey is an award-winning author and lapsed academic. She spent three years as the entertainment contributor on AMI Radio's Live From Studio 5 morning show, and was an occasional talking head in documentaries and on the SPACE Channel's premier chat show InnerSPACE. She holds a BA in Dramatic Literature and an MA in Communications Culture, and has lectured at conferences and conventions all around the world.

Her debut novel TRIPTYCH was nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards and garnered a place among the Best Books of 2011 from Publishers Weekly, and TIME AND TIDE was named one of The New York Times’ Best Romances of the Year.

She lives in Toronto where she is surrounded by houseplants, because she is allergic to anything with fur. Like h
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There are three novels in the Accidental Turn series ("The Untold Tale", "The Forgotten Tale", and "The Silenced Tale"). There is also a …more
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There are three novels in the Accidental Turn series ("The Untold Tale", "The Forgotten Tale", and "The Silenced Tale"). There is also a fourth book ("The Accidental Collection") which contains three novellas (including the two previously independently published "Ghosts" and "Arrivals"), set in the world of the books, four short stories, a comic, and some other bonus content that I can't describe without being too spoilery.

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“Heroes can save the world, but villains can change it.”
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“My first crush was a sarcastic know-it-all Immortal named Methos, a character from Highlander. To this day I am convinced he is my perfect soulmate. And the focus of my sexual awakening. Lots of people cite the boiler room scene from My So-Called Life, Jareth in Labyrinth, Colin Firth in Pride & Prejudice, or any/all members of the Fellowship of the Ring. But mine happened when Methos rolled out of bed in nothing but boxers to defend his life with a Roman short sword. Unf.”
J.M. Frey, The Secret Loves of Geek Girls

“But in fanfiction anything was fair game. If we could turn protagonists into vampires, bounty hunters, or elves, we could sure as heck turn them homosexual, bisexual, asexual or any ot he wonderful, beautiful in-betweens. Characters slid all over the rainbow. And through fanfiction I learned about identities like transgendered, genderfluid, and demisexual.”
J.M. Frey, The Secret Loves of Geek Girls

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“Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.”
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“The Prince had grown on her, romanced her, in a way, seduced her with his need, and his desire, his pain, his suffering, his desperation for one person, just one to accept him as he chose to be. And maybe it was brainwashing, and maybe it wasn't. But that wasn't reason, really, to add to his misery. Hadn’t they both been abused? Pushed into it? And taking comfort from one another in captivity was all they had, wasn't it?”
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“My head is spinning. I feel like I'm falling. I'm braced for the inevitable shock of hitting the ground, and I don't want it to ever come. When you love a dragon, maybe it never does.

Maybe you just fly.”
J.M. Frey, Nine-Tenths

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Wendy Hi! I just wanted to thank you again for alerting me to the re-release of Sailor Moon. I gave volume 1 to Ivy for Christmas and we have been reading through it every night. :-)


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