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December 2019 Addendum
Date(s)
- 2009 - 2019 (Creation)
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1 box
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Biographical history
Victoria McManus is a resident of Philadelphia, PA. She writes both fiction and nonfiction, under the names Victoria Janssen and Elspeth Potter, and includes both novels and short stories. Her first novel was the alternate-world fantasy The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover (2008), which has been translated into French, German, and Russian. Her next novel, The Moonlight Mistress (2009), features the early days of World War One and werewolves; it has been translated into Italian and has an electronic-only sequel available, “Under Her Uniform.” McManus' third novel The Duke and the Pirate Queen (2010), is a sort-of sequel to The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover, focusing on different characters. In 2021-2022, under the name of Victoria Janssen, she released A Place of Refuge, a new science fiction queer romance space opera consisting of three books: Finding Refuge, Accepting Refuge, and Embracing Refuge.
Her first published short story was "Water Music" (2000), which appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica 2001 from Cleis Press, and she has since written a number of other stories that have been anthologized in various erotica collections. Her nonfiction mostly appears at the blogs Heroes and Heartbreakers (romance) and The Criminal Element (mystery, suspense, and thrillers). She also reviews anonymously for Publishers Weekly.
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Series V: Convention Materials
4-5/1: Readercon 20 [Burlington, MA, 2009]
4-5/2: WisCon 33 [Madison, WI, 2009]
4-5/3: Arisia 2010 [Cambridge, MA, 2010]
4-5/4: Readercon 21 [Burlington, MA, 2010]
4-5/5: Arisia 2011 [Boston, MA, 2011]
4-5/6: Capclave 2011 [Gaithersburg, MD, 2011]
4-5/7: Eclecticon [Newark, NJ, 2011]
4-5/8: Readercon 22 [Burlington, MA, 2011]
4-5/9: Arisia 2012 [Boston, MA, 2012]
4-5/10: Capclave 2012 [Gaithersburg, mD, 2012]
4-5/11: 4th Annual International Conference of Popular Romance Studies [York, UK, 2012]
4-5/12: Philcon 2012 [Cherry Hill, NJ, 2012]
4-5/13: Readercon 23 [Burlington, MA, 2012]
4-5/14: WisCon 36 [Madison, WI, 2012]
4-5/15: Readercon 24 [Burlington, MA, 2013]
4-5/16: Arisia 2014 [Boston, MA, 2014]
4-5/17: Capclave 2014 [Gaithersburg, MD, 2014]
4-5/18: Philcon 2014 - 2016 [Cherry Hill, NJ, 2014 - 2016]
4-5/19: Readercon 25 [Burlington, MA, 2014]
4-5/20: Capclave 2015 - 2017 [Gaithersburg, MD, 2015 - 2017]
4-5/21: Readercon 27 [Quincy, MA, 2015]
4-5/22: WisCon 37 [Madison, WI, 2013]
4-5/23: World Fantasy Convention 40 [Washington, DC, 2014]
4-5/24: Lunacon 2016 [Rye Brook, NY, 2016]
4-5/25: Arisia 2017 [Boston, MA, 2017]
4-5/26: Philcon 2017 - 2018 [Cherry Hill, NJ, 2017 - 2018]
4-5/27: WisCon 41 [Madison, WI, 2017]
4-5/28: Arisia 2018 [Boston, MA, 2018]
4-5/29: Capclave 2018 [Rockville, MD, 2018]
4-5/30: Readercon 28 - 29 [Quincy, MA, 2018 - 2019]
4-5/31: WisCon 42 [Madison, WI, 2018]
4-5/32: Arisia 2019 [Boston, MA, 2019]
4-5/33: Capclave 2019 [Rockville, MD, 2019]
4-5/34: Readercon 30 [Quincy, MA, 2019]
4-5/35: Con notebooks, 2002 - 2015