I don't know whether anyone else here has come across Kathryn Anderson's fanfic review website. It's an eclectic collection of reviews of lots of fanfic from different fandoms, including some from Lois and Clark. The Lois and Clark section is here .

She makes clear that her reviews are her own opinion, and she will say negative as well as positive things - but that aside, her reviews are an interesting read, whether or not I agree with every word of them.


Wendy

Spiffy sight. I liked her comments, although I will open my mouth and say that I completely disagree with her about the Dawning series. IMHO, the B plot always took a backseat to the action for me.


Jen

Fascinating stuff, Wendy! Thanks for the link

The first thing I looked for was whether she'd reviewed any of my stories but she hadn't. Bearing up nobly, I read most of the other reviews... as you say, interesting even when I don't agree.

And I see from the descriptions that she's been paying attention to the Kerths... it was kind of a shock to realize those lists are all open to anyone with an ISP <g> But it's nice that she places some confidence in our results

PJ

Yeah, interesting site, although I must to admit to only having read a few of the stories she mentions for LnC, so far. (Most of the rest are on my hard drive, waiting for me to have time to read them.) I'd find the site a lot easier to read if I could get rid of the lefthand panel, which seems to cut off part of the text in the review frame. But I suppose I'm not smart enough to do that - or maybe it's just the computer I'm using...

Melisma ( under her Rock)

I noticed that last night, although I wasn't in the site long enough to try doing anything about it. It definitely wasn't like that the last time I visited it, but that was months ago.

If it persists for you I'd mail Kathryn and let her know. I'm sure she'll want to fix any site glitches.

I'm impressed; she's done a nice job with this site, both in the layout and the sheer number of reviews she's posted.

It's also interesting that she has a section for L&C given that she admits she doesn't follow the show particularly closely. She has a mix of early and more recent stories (though, like Pam, none of my own). She does say she's been working her way through the 2003 Kerth list so I do wonder if she will eventually read anything I've written and what she might say. (Though since her personal tastes don't seem to like a lot of kissing, I have a feeling she might not like some of my scenes. )

Thanks, Wendy, for passing this on. And for those of you who read fanfic of other fandoms, I would definitely poke around her site. She has a lot on there, and other fandoms (Sentinel, for one) have many more reviews than her L&C section.

Oh, and I have to say, her "Gray List" (listing authors who have politely asked that reviews of their stories be removed) vs her "Black List" (people who rudely demanded the same) totally cracked me up. I like this woman's dry sense of humor.

Kathy

I first learned about this site when she e-mailed me to tell me she'd put the "Rescue" stories on it. Her e-mail also contained the disclaimer that her opinions were her own so, being the Nervous Nellie that I am, it took a long time to work up the courage to visit her site.

How did you ever find this interesting site, Wendy? I see that you've previously recommended stories to her so I guess you've been in correspondence?

I haven't finished exploring the site yet but I've enjoyed her reviews so far, although, like others here, I'm not in agreement with all her opinions.

Thanks for pointing out the part about the gray list and black list, Kathy, lol. I enjoyed reading that whole page.

I agree, Pam, it's kind of scary that anything we post in our fandom, including our stories, can be read by anyone at anytime who has access to the Internet.

Annie, it looks like you never had anything to worry about; Kathryn seems to quite like your hilarious stories.

Shadowfax

Shadowfax, I heard about it first last year some time when Kathryn emailed me to tell me that there was a review of Faux Pas there; having read it, I had a brief and friendly conversation with her in which I recommended some other L&C authors to try.

I'd forgotten all about it until last week when she emailed me again to say that she'd uploaded reviews of The Penfriend/History to her site. At that point, with more L&C stories added, I thought that people here might be interested. I'm pleased to see that FoLCs are - and I'm sure Kathryn would be interested in more recommendations of stories, if anyone cares to email her. I do enjoy reading her reviews; it's only one perspective, of course, but she has a nice style and I don't find her criticisms in any way unpleasant.


Wendy

I haven't come anywhere close to reading all her reviews yet (there seem to be a ton of em!), but I haven't seen anything unpleasant yet, either, which makes me more inclined to recommend stories to her.

I'm trying to think of LnC fanfic in addition to the stories she's already reviewed that might appeal to a non-FOLC who isn't as familiar with the series as we are. Anyone else doing the same thing?

Shadowfax

Whenever I want to recommend a story to a non-FOLC, I usually start with "President Kent" And not just because I wrote it! But that story is short, self-contained, and doesn't really need much familiarity with the tv series to be read and understood.

PJ