I realise the longest night was in fact last night... but I interrupt my crazy scrimmage of lists, wrapping, ingredient-buying and baking to bring you the first of this year's two Solstice posts.

A solstice mathom from the Powers-verse for all my LJ/DW/online/fandom friends; thank you for bringing light into some of my darker corners this year ( Read more... )

Thanks to the good beta offices of

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Taking a break over lunch from going cross-eyed over course reading lists and sneaking into Middle-earth for five minutes... (wouldn't that be great? Only I suspect I might not make it back to the office on time...)

I have a Powers-verse one-shot, about 6000 words, more or less finished and in need of beta. Kidnap, derring-do and coffee are all ( Read more... )

Admittedly, this is fic that was all written and beta'd (by the ever-supportive curiouswombat, to whom I apologise for the looong delay in posting!) months ago, and then never got posted; but consider it a down-payment on some of the endless story ideas Legolas and Rowanna were starting in my head back in the spring, which may take a while to write up.

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It's a glorious, crisp autumn morning, the morning chores are done, children chauffeured, I have Badly Drawn Boy on the speakers and coffee brewing....

... and fic mulling about in my brain. Feeling like writing for first time in months!  Even better, went back last night to look at the half-written Powers-verse piece I remembered starting back in ( Read more... )

I finally got the latest Ithilien Tale titled after much teeth-grinding (and the eventual title is no great stroke of genius, but at least it isn't shared by a Barbara Cartland novel!)

Satisfied all Three: in which Elladan and Elrohir make their first visit to Ithilien since the end of the Ring War, and Elrohir, Legolas and Rowanna have some, erm, ( Read more... )