Catherine Schaff-Stump has a great post: she’s got a copy of Mists of Avalon, and would like to see people donate to RAINN because of the recent revelations about Marion Zimmer Bradley’s abuse of her children. Here’s her post. Thanks Cath!
Another Piece of Walter Breen History
Note: topic is child sexual assault. Another piece of Walter Breen/Marion Zimmer Bradley history came via snail mail today. The events recounted weren’t given a time, but checking against the Breendoggle suggests that it’s of the same era as the Breendoggle (1964). I can’t tell if it’s before or after the Breendoggle was published, but […]
Mark Greyland Speaks Out
C.A. Starfire has an interview with Mark Greyland, the son of Marion Zimmer Bradley and Walter Breen. I thought everyone knew and that I was such a bad person no one would speak to me. And, later, addressing the inheritance issue: I was disinherited by language that sounded so unlike my mother that I knew […]
What Blog Statistics Look Like Here
I’ve had a blog for 10 years, but I’ve been irregular for periods about posting to it before WordPress had a good spam solution. These days, an average day for me is between 100 and 250 page views and between 70 and 150 unique visitors. Obviously, this excludes people who turn off tracking. For reasons […]
Marion Zimmer Bradley: Artist vs. Art
There have been some super-interesting conversations about Marion Zimmer Bradley’s work in the context of larger discussions on the artist vs. their art. I think we all know that all artists are flawed, but clearly some flaws are larger than others. For those of you who don’t yet know, I broke the news about Marion […]
The Guardian Runs Piece on Marion Zimmer Bradley
Alison Flood of The Guardian wrote this piece about Moira’s revelations about her mother Marion Zimmer Bradley. Damien Walter has another piece, “How far can culture heroes’ work stand apart from their lives?”
Robert Heinlein on the Breendoggle
From William H. Patterson’s book Robert A. Heinlein, Vol 2: In Dialogue with His Century Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better, p. 263. At just that moment, in fact, science-fiction fandom was tearing itself apart over the preemptive cancellation of the membership of a suspected pedophile by PacifiCon, the most recent world science-fiction convention, […]
Breendoggle Documentation Now On a Wiki
Trigger Warning: child rape Just when I thought I was done with this…. One thing that’s come out of shining light into dark corners is that the original “Breendoggle” from 1963 has now been posted online. If it was online before, Google couldn’t find it, only documented references to it. Bill Donaho wrote the original […]
The Importance of Books and the MZB Timeline
Responding to this comment about the timeline on the MetaFilter thread about MZB’s abuse and Breen’s case. More correct timeline: Tor.com publishes their tribute piece on MZB’s birthday. (Now removed, see #3) I write my response piece and post a link to it on the Tor.com piece’s comments. When looking at my own comments, I […]
Marion Zimmer Bradley: It’s Worse Than I Knew
Moira Greyland (Marion Zimmer Bradley and Walter Breen’s daughter) has agreed to let me share her email. This is really hard stuff to read, and I’ve just thrown up my lunch. I knew about none of this part of things until a few minutes ago. Hello Deirdre. It is a lot worse than that. The […]