Someone over at Ana Mardoll's Ramblings said the following yesterday:

I'm pondering whether writing stories about Mary Sues -- author avatars, unusual women/girls who love the unloved, thrive in hostile places, and often have/acquire special (usually aquatic) powers -- makes me a Suethor.And of course I had to answer that. But the answer was so ( Read more... )

I only wrote seven stories in 2015--way down from the previous year. Editing, stress, sickness and home repairs took over my life in the second half of the year. I even had to bail on Yuletide. It was also the year that I found some of my stories stolen by an ebook publisher who was selling fanfic by the hundreds. Not a good year, 2015. Not at all ( Read more... )

So there's this new Kickstarter for Queers Destroy Science Fiction. Don't take the name literally; this is an all-QUILTBAG issue of a science fiction magazine. In fact, let me just quote the Kickstarter ( Read more... )

Stories I wrote and posted in 2014:

JANUARY

The Hawk Who Would Not Be Broken. A Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin. None of the men in Lyanna's life understand her--not even Rhaegar. 217 words.

FEBRUARY

Sweets. The Belgariad/Mallorean series - David & Leigh Eddings. Garion thinks that bribing Zubrette with sweet things is a good way to ( Read more... )

A meme I got from (who is angevin2 on LJ), and .

Post the first lines of your last 21 fics.

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Everyone else is doing this, so I will, too. If you don't mention a particular fandom, I'll assume that you're asking this as a general question ( Read more... )

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Hello, folks! Rikibeth asked me to promote the Babes in Boyland charity auction. The auction is simple; authors offer to write original short stories--no fanfic, in other words--and you bid on the author you'd like to write for you. Babes in Boyland benefits charities doing recovery work for Hurricane Sandy...so there's no down side to this ( Read more... )

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