I hope everyone is having a safe, relaxing winter holiday, despite its being not at all what we would have expected a year ago. If you're looking for an excellent way to pass some time, hoggywartyxmas is now posting and once again the stories are a true delight -- original, creative, well-written, and jolly good fun. Madam Malkin has a starring role in ( Read more... )

If you're looking for something to do this evening, a panel of eight horror authors will be doing live readings from their books! It's at 6pm EST tonight, go here to find out more:

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/indie-horrorthon-1--/register

* Saint Walpurga, whose nacht this is, was hailed by the Christians of Germany for battling "pest, rabies and ( Read more... )

sshg_giftfest, hoggywartyxmas, and snapecase are all posting right now, and I am as happy as a very happy thing that is happy! Everyone has outdone themselves this year -- hoggywarty has some fabulous stories about Garrick Ollivander in particular, while over on the giftfest someone actually wrote original music to go with their story -- ye gods ( Read more... )

snapecase is looking for authors! Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on. You know you want to.


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Interactive new version of Dracula is up on Kickstarter, and it's SUPER cool:


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..."Gosh, I hope snapecase runs again."

And what do I see today? It's a go!
::does happy dance::

sshg_giftfest has begun posting, and WOW what a kickoff! A beautiful vignette, told in lush, sensual artwork. Go ye and marvel.

In the words of Winnie the Pooh (well, actually Wol), Sunday was my Hip Happy Bthuthday :) I had a lovely day binge-watching Game of Throne (OMG SO GOOD), day-drinking wine, and then going out to dinner (nomnmonom ( Read more... )

I won't bore you with real life stuff, such as two flat tires in two days, forgetting to buy Litter Genie refills thus reducing us to repurposing plastic bags from the grocery story, or the Stable Genius Cheeto currently pretending to run my country. (I did read Fire and Fury, though; I could not help myself - my review is here, if you wish ( Read more... )

Reveals are up for hoggywartyxmas and sshg_giftfest, so I can now cop to being the author of the following:

Ding Dong Merrily on High ( LJ) (AO3) - written for pyttan for hoggywartyxmas. The Hogwarts ghosts want to spread a little holiday cheer. Things do not go as planned.

The Joy of Cooking ( LJ) (AO3) - written for madeleone for sshg_giftfest. A git and a swot walk into a cookery class. Warning: Contains ( Read more... )