This was my first year attending Arisia, Boston's sci-fi/fantasy con, and I highly recommend it. When I first registered, I figured I’d drop by for a panel or two, meet my husband after one of his martial art workshops, and otherwise get work done, run errands, etc. By Monday, I found myself wishing I had set aside the weekend so I could have more ( Read more... )

My Yuletide story, now that we are free to post them with names attached:

Reunion
Crimson Peak(2015); Thomas Sharpe/Lucille Sharpe

Young Thomas Sharpe meets Lucille at the Swiss sanitarium on the eve of her release. After seven years apart, the siblings must rediscover one another. (4,866 words)

I did it! I didn't default on Yuletide, after defaulting on just about every other creative endeavor I started in 2016 (sorry, Renaissance calligraphy class). I even did some of those writer-ly things I typically only include on my aspirational Pinterest boards, like reading the thing aloud to catch mistakes. I hope my Yuletide recipient likes the ( Read more... )

Hello! This is my first year participating in Yuletide, and my story will be the first I’ve ever posted online. I’ve written fanfic on and off for decades, but it's all on my laptop, in notebooks or (dating myself) on floppy drives. After submitting my requests, it occurred to me that that given my currently non-existent fandom/AO3 presence, I ( Read more... )