Okay, I've been reading this BRILLIANT fic for a while now and just HAVE to rec it ( Read more... )

That's right SCAM Fic...

The always smart and insightful Kelly Chambliss has pointed out that many publishing/academic/literary folks don't seem to understand what fan fic is and confuse it with plagiarism - which it is NOT.

I couldn't understand how they could do that - until I heard this week's episode of NPR's On the Media which focuses on the ( Read more... )

...Really? Seriously?

There is a post  http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/68332629.html?mode=reply that includes a list of authors who comment on how they feel about fan fiction. It includes J.K. Rowling who, whatever her failings, is okay with it as long as it remains PG-rated ( oh bless your heart J.K. that ship has SOOOOO sailed ) and Anne Rice ( Read more... )

This was inspired by

Challenge #425: "Three True Things"

(Remember: drabble posts now appear on livejournal and insanejournal and dreamwidth)

Challenge #425: "Three True Things" This week's challenge asks you to write a drabble that tells the readers three things about Severus Snape that they might not have known before. Note: the three things needn't ( Read more... )

 ...but aren't they all yummy?

Anyway, just read a lovely one about Kendra Dumbledore, mother of our esteemed, mad-as-a-hatter headmaster.

It's as lovely as snowflakes and will leave you wanting more.

Check it out here: A Dream of Winter.

 I just realized tonight that I need to give credit to Veresna Ussep's Love's Labours, Paradise Lost  which I originally read on the Sycophant Hex Occlumency website. It's been a while since I've read it but I remember really enjoying it and her OFC's bittersweet journey through the wizard world.

If I recall correctly, her OFC Celia Graham was a ( Read more... )