Public...will it succeed, I wonder? Right now, Fimfiction stands alone as the undisputed number one archive for ponyfic. If its mooted expansion does take place, it'll be up against several others, but most notably FF.net and Archive of Our Own. The big question will be how well it might do then ( Read more... )

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Anyway, here I am. UK PonyCon was spectacularly good -- better than BUCK good -- and I enjoyed the odd sensation of having people talk about my writing. Admittedly it was Starlight Repeatedly Teleports into Custard, but as a ponyfic author you take what you can get! The worst thing for any writer is being ignored, after all. There was ( Read more... )

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Her story "The Analogue Cat" has won the Best Short Fiction category in this year's Ursa Major Awards! Hearty congratulations on the honour, and you are now officially the most famous author I know! =:D

On a less important but still pleasing note, Danger Mouse reboot came in third in the "Best Dramatic Series or Short Work" category. We ( Read more... )

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One that was passed a little while ago, actually, but which I completely missed. Fimfiction, the main My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fanfiction site, has comprehensively surpassed HarryPotterFanfiction.com, the largest (that I know of) Harry Potter fanfiction site, in numbers of both total and completed stories. (The HP fandom wins by ( Read more... )

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You may remember that I said, when I posted my news about the Royal Canterlot Library interview, that the little quiz at the end was intended as a sort of homage to something. I also said that, if nobody got it, I'd explain, so: it was based on the test papers scattered through 1066 and All That. =:)

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The Royal Canterlot Library has decided that my Pinkie Pie ponyfic, It Doesn't Matter Now, is worthy of being featured. As part of the deal here, they did a text-based interview with me, and you can read my responses here on the RCL site. (Along with some embarrassingly nice introductory comments by several of the curators.) Although pony- ( Read more... )

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I've finally got my Friendship is Poetry project back on the move, albeit slowly. This one is for the episode "Sonic Rainboom" and was inspired by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.'s classic poem, "High Flight", written in the Second World War:

See the Sky in Front of YouYay, Dash! But what of stage fright, far from earth ( Read more... )

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Would you believe it's more than eleven years since I wrote this poem for the Watership Down fandom? I can hardly believe it myself! I still like it, though, so in case there are any WD fans still around on LJ (as well as the few I know are here!) here you go:

Hazel's DevotionOh Hyzenthlay, I cannot tell ( Read more... )

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Okay, I admit it: this one's shameless self-promotion. "For an Angel to Pass" is one of those stories that just turned up in my head one day. Not fully formed by any means, but the basic idea was there. It's short (1,600 words) but I think it's turned out all right. There are ridiculously few fics where Angel is an important part of the ( Read more... )

PublicIt really is very strange, being able to go out for a walk without taking an umbrella or a raincoat with me. Not that I'm complaining at all, but it's a huge change from even a couple of weeks ago. High pressure is anchored over the UK at long last, and even 10 °C feels like the middle of summer when the sun's out. I wish I had a bit more ( Read more... )