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Big Name Fan

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When two A-list celebrities famous for their on-screen chemistry as TV detectives (think: sapphic Mulder and Scully, or queer Rizzoli and Isles) are reunited to investigate a real-life Hollywood murder, fans who have been 'shipping the leading ladies for years might just get the ending they've always wanted...

Bexley Simon and Sam Farmer aren't detectives, but they play them on TV. Well, played, past tense. The iconic cult hit that was Craven's Daughter ended five years ago, and their friendship died along with it. Fans were disappointed that the pair's legendary chemistry went unfulfilled—and crushed that the actual spark between actresses Bex and Sam didn't pay off, either. The network never intended for two women to get romantic, in life or onscreen, despite the fans. But the bigger tragedy was the loss of their dear friend, makeup artist Jen Arnot, whose accidental death cast a pall over the series' last episodes.
Now the network has decided on a reunion special, and Bex and Sam are thrust together once more as hosts of a rewatch podcast that will feature favorite episodes. Their first guest—a megawatt star who played a murder victim early on—drops a bombshell. Among the millions of pixels of fanfic written about the show online, one truly prolific author, known in the fiction world as the show's Big Name Fan, was an insider, almost certainly someone from the cast or crew.
As the podcast moves along—and the spark between Bex and Sam threatens to burn down the studio—the pair realize they're faced with two actual mysteries: Who is their Big Name Fan? And was Jen's death an accident, or did someone want her dead? Sifting through clues as they question cast and crew, the duo will need to separate fact from fiction as they make their personal partnership into unmistakable canon . . .

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    • Library Journal

      January 1, 2025

      Knox and Mare (coauthors of Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous, under the pen name Mae Marvel) create a sapphic mystery starring a costars-to-lovers pair. Sam and Bex were the leads in a cult-favorite crime show that was cancelled. When they start hosting a rewatch podcast, their chemistry takes off again, but so do more mysteries. Filled with fan culture, Hollywood glitz, and lots of chemistry. Prepub Alert.

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 6, 2025
      Cowriting couple Knox and Mare (who previously collaborated on Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous, written as Mae Marvel) bridge Hollywood high drama, cozy mystery, and gentle slow-burn romance in this sweetly satisfying outing. The detective show Craven’s Daughter never acknowledged the romantic subtext between leads Cora Banks and Henri Shannon—nor the obvious chemistry between the actors who played them, Bexley Simon and Samantha Farmer—but when the show ended abruptly five years ago, the fans wrote their own happy endings for the women in fan fiction posted online. When Bex and Sam join forces for a rewatch podcast leading up to a reunion special, their first guest, a former castmate, intimates that the most popular writer of Craven’s Daughter fanfic may have been an insider telegraphing intel about on-set conflict in her stories, including clues about what really happened to Jen Arnot, the show’s makeup designer, who fell to her death from a filming location’s balcony. This new information spurs Bex and Sam to press their former colleagues about things many would prefer to keep quiet while simultaneously building the bravery to finally admit their feelings for each other. Readers who love to overanalyze their favorite shows will feel especially seen. This low-heat love letter to the queer fanfic community is a gem.

    • Kirkus

      January 15, 2025
      The reunion of a cult-hit TV detective series may mean a second chance at romance for the show's stars, who face a mystery that might bring them together. Returning to theCraven's Daughter set five years after the show ended, Bexley Simon can't help but wonder if the place is a little haunted. Although Bex's friend Jen Arnot, the show's makeup artist, tragically died on set, Bex is less worried about actual ghosts than about things that have been left unsaid. For example, just as the romantic tension between Cora Banks, the private eye she played, and Henri Shannon, the former FBI agent played by Samantha Farmer, was never resolved, neither was the relationship between the two actors, for whom the timing was never right. Now back together for a reunion special and an accompanying rewatch podcast, Bex and Sam are revisiting all those will-they, won't-they moments on air. As happened with the original ambiguously close Xena and Gabrielle, fans are rooting for the two to find their way to each other. Again echoing their predecessors, a large contingent of online fans have launched their ships into fan fiction, perhaps hoping to plant seeds in the head of Bette Holloway, the show's nepo-baby writer. While Bex and Sam try to sort out who they are and who they can be to each other, a guest on the podcast mentions that the person known only as Big Name Fan, a prolific writer ofCraven's Daughter fanfic, may have been more closely connected to the show than anyone realized. Questions of the Fan's identity swirl around set, making Bex wonder whether Jen's fatal plunge from a balcony could have been more than misadventure. A TV reunion is fertile ground for a queer pop culture makeover.

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