Radio Show: Author Commentary - The Awakening

[keiramarcos]

On Sunday night, I'll be discussing my first and only completed project in the Sentinel Fandom that is not a cross over with Stargate. Questions in the chatroom, on the phone, or on my LiveJournal listing for this radio show are welcome.

Title: The Awakening

Author: Keira Marcos

Fandom: The Sentinel

Pairing: Blair/Jim

Betas: Ladyholder & Kelly

Status: Complete

Word Count: 69,152

Rating: NC-17 (for sex, violence, and very adult themes)

Warnings: Foul language, explicit sex, violence, murder, blood, discussion of sexual abuse and violence against minor characters, and various other things you might suspect in a story about a Sentinel Cop and his Guide. Mean!Carolyn. Selfish!Naomi.

Summary: Detective Jim Ellison doesn’t want a Guide. What he wants is peace and quiet and maybe for his ex-wife to disappear. Dr. Blair Sandburg, a successful profiler with the FBI, has nearly given up on finding his Sentinel. Then the night came where one’s pain drew the other across the country – neither will ever be the same.

Comments

[vasaris.livejournal.com]

Even though I won't get to listen in (you would pick gaming night *sadface*) and will have to wait for the podcast: What exactly is your inspiration for the sentinel/guide center? You've carried it through most (or is it all?) of your sentinel stories in a largely unchanged format. Also, even if gay marriage isn't legal in the timeline of the story, why isn't there either an exception for sentinels and their guides, or at least some form of automatic civil partnership/power of attorney thing? I'd've thought that a government that wants bonded sentinels would offer that kind of protection. Which, in turn, makes me wonder what the ramifications of having Sentinels/Guides come out of the woodwork had amidst the religious right -- accepted as beings with gifts from God or vilified as agents of Satan that could break up marriages and tempt men and women into unpardonable sin?

I'll stop now, because I tend to pick horribly at world building, even when I think it's well thought out. I could easily go all day with clarification questions.

[vasaris.livejournal.com]

I suppose I should have expected that you didn't cover the religious reaction due to your views (I've read it all, so I'm not surprised -- just a little sad because your rants are kind of epic). I do kind of want to smack people at the Center for not reminding Jim and Blair about domestic partnership/POA stuff though. Jim realizing it because of Caroline (Carolyn?) was just kind of awful for him (that is not a critique, I just felt really bad for Jim and wondered WTF the Center is doing if they don't make an effort to keep Sentinels and Guides from getting screwed at 2am because the legalities weren't taken care of. Then again, maybe they didn't read the 'So now you're bonded, here's the inobvious shit you hadn't thought about' pamphlet that's in the little waiting area in the foyer.)

Also I'm proud to be Washingtonian and to have voted for our gay marriage initiative. A lot bummed it took so damn long, but there you go. Not that you could have known that, but I am proud of the people of my state. :)