Featured Story: February

[captainraychill]

Please listen to Bon Bon.

Bon Bon - which is I - is a free house-elf who loves bonbons and Glimmer and ducks. Miss Captainraychill asked Bon Bon to tell the nice readers at Hawthorn and Vine about her, so Bon Bon will.

Miss Captainraychill lives in a land called Texas. Texas is hot and full of cows. She is married to Mr. Captainraychill. He calls

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[dhlane]

I must admit that I have not read your story, the one being featured this month. I shall do so as soon as I possibly can and I am about to tell you why. I have discovered that I am head over arse in love with Bon Bon. *Mwhaaa* I giggled and snickered all the way through that. I do have some other questions to add to the ones you answered so brilliantly already. Who are your influences? What was the first dramione you ever read? Can you describe your fascination with this pairing? I find these things so interesting and am always trying to suss out these details from other writers.

In admiration and anticipation of the story I shall read this evening, xoxoKel

[captainraychill]

Thank you so much!!

Questions - lovely questions. I'm going to work on those to post tonight with a full response to the above. :)

[captainraychill]

I have discovered that I am head over arse in love with Bon Bon. Ha ha! Bon Bon loves you, too!!

Thanks so much! I love that you have questions - and here are my answers:

"Who are your influences?"They are woefully un-literary. Never read "Jane Eyre" and can't get through Austen. Haven't gone near "War and Peace" or "Anna Karenina". Growing up, I read L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables) and Frances Hodgson Burnett (A Little Princess, The Secret Garden). I have an enduring love of fairy tales, both Perrault and Grimm. In college, I admired Anne Rice for her lush language and vampires but lost interest when she decided she was above the need for editors. As an adult, I have always gravitated toward romance novels, particularly period romances of the non-sweet variety by authors like Jo Beverly, Lisa Kleypas and Eloisa James. We call it smut. My sister calls them "trashy" romances. But there's a line in the movie "The Fisher King" about such novels that I like - "There's nothing trashy about romance." Every now and then a

[dhlane]

Ooooooo, thanks for answering all my questions. I love romance novels and call them mind candy. They give me a rush and leave me happy because they almost always have a happy ending. (If they don't have an ending to suit me, I write my own. lol.)It is always so neat to discover what drew someone to fanfic. I am constantly intrigued with that.

Brilliant story, btw. I loved every tiny thing about it. xoxoKel

[captainraychill]

No problem! To me, if it's genre romance, it must end happy. If no, I think of it as something else. Maybe with "romantic elements."

Thanks - regarding the story. Glad you liked it. Xoxo to you! :)