Outed

So we're chatting during the lunch break of my all-day editorial meeting, talking about things we like to read, and both my editor and my publisher are into SF. And my editor turns to me and asks, "So, if you like science fiction, do you read any of that fanfic stuff?"

I grin and blush and say, "Better to ask if there's fanfic I haven't read."

Then my publisher turns to me and says, knowingly, "If you read fanfic, do you read slash?"

Oh my god. How do you even know that word? "I decline to answer, on the grounds that it may convict me..."