FANFIC AUTHORS' APPRECIATION WEEK DAY 7

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Panic-stricken last minute dashes’R Us: a random assortment of writers I want to praise. I hope no-one missed the Magnificent Seven writers I recced yesterday; the “Savage Beauty” update seems to have eclipsed my earlier post.


N. L. Rummi aka sharelle. Her “Out of Joint” is ingenious and atmospheric and tightly plotted, really enjoyable, and I’m eagerly awaiting more.

Elsa Frohman elsaf at Spiked Dreams
Skillful, clever, charming character portrayals, beautifully detailed stories; her Christmas fic The Three Kings is the most delightful portrayal of the most hated of all the Buffyverse characters ever, and actually made me love him!

Mommanerd mommanerd. Her Andrew stories are probably the funniest things anyone in the fandom has ever written, and she can do serious too.

alwaysjbj “Cornpone and the Bloodsuckers” rivals Mommanerd’s stories for the funniest ever fic crown. Check out
Axis of Love for that and more.


tesla321 Skilful flowing prose, great characterisation, realistic original characters, and an Angel/Anya pairing story that makes it hard to visualise either of them with anyone else. One of two people who can almost persuade me to read m/m Slash.

janedavitt The other one who can almost get me to read m/m Slash. Not quite, but almost. Lots of superbly crafted fics at Jane's Stories

airawyn at Lost in a Story
I saw her story “Sex with Robots” ages ago on alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative and loved it, but it wasn’t until we bumped into each other on LiveJournal that I discovered the full range of her wonderful stories. “The Quartet: Hunt For the Chraka Rathklo” is particularly outstanding.

itmustbetuesday is doing a response to one of theohara’s challenges, “Finding The Key”, that is so good that I don’t think even the sublime Helga Von Nutwimple could do it any better.

This is going to degenerate into a random stream with no time to go into details and I’m bound to miss out people whose works I love – sorry!

magista’s Obsession is full of great stories.

I must mention megan_peta, superbly creative. Her stories are at The Order, together with those of hollydb, another author whose stories I enjoy a lot.

bloodshedbaby, funny and sexy and ingenious and responsible for creating the House of Bloodshed , collecting together and giving support and encouragement to a host of good writers.

appomattoxco has a lovely light touch with romantic comedy, especially Ganya, that makes her stories a delight to read.

eurydice72 is a great writer, and also does a great job for the fandom with the “Loves Last Glimpse” Awards (see below!).

hieispike is stunningly good at drabbles and short fics, and when she does long stories they’re pretty damn good too. Check out Elusive Visions .

julia_here is doing a 19th Century Angelus and Drusilla story, “Just Another Irish Rose”, that is stupendously good. The atmosphere, the period and nautical detail, the characterisation, and the sheer use of language is good beyond my ability to praise.

OMG I almost forgot thomasina75 and debxena! And shadowscast!

Now, although there are undoubtedly wonderful writers left unpraised, and I’m sure I’ll kick myself for omissions later, I’ll have to stop. I’m going to post this, reply to some comments, and then get on with putting Chapter 6 of “Savage Beauty” on fanfic.net and on my website.

And on with collecting buttons and putting them on the site for my nominations. Not only did “Savage Beauty” get nominated for the LoveBite Awards, I’ve just been informed of FOUR nominations for it at “Love’s Last Glimpse”. Best WIP, Comedy/Fluff, Romance, and Fantasy. Again the nomination url is fanfic.net, so it probably wasn’t anyone I know who nominated me, but thanks anyway to whoever it was. Squee! I’ve never had so many nominations before.

Comments

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

Close but no banana, hmm? ;-) If you ever change your mind, want to read it, and it's a pairing I haven't written, let me know ::g::

::hugs::

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

I'll stick to reading your gen and het, I'm afraid.

I've expanded a little on your mention now and included your website url.

Thankyou!

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

Wow... what can I say...THANKYOU so much from myself and on behalf of 'Corny's' co-writter Mefiant.

Re: Thankyou!

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

My bad, I really should have mentioned Mefiant.

I had made an error in your name and shown you as "alwaysLj" - corrected now! I've also added the url for "Axis of Love".

[hieispike.livejournal.com]

Oh wow...thank you. ::blushes::

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

You deserve the praise; remember that I have previously referred to you as "The Daimyo of Drabbles".

[sharelle.livejournal.com]

Awww, really? Thank you so much! *hugs*

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Hugs you back!

[thomasina75.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the mention! :-)

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Sorry I almost missed you off!

[airawyn.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I didn't know anyone read that story when I posted it on the newsgroup. :)

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

I could have sworn I'd responded to it, but I didn't, and checking with Google Groups I see that nobody responded at all. I'm surprised; it was certainly worthy of comment.

[megan-peta.livejournal.com]

thank you for adding me to your list. I have been severely slack this week. *sigh* Knowing someone with your talent reads me is awesome.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

You know I've been reading your stories ever since "Taste of Juliet".

[itmustbetuesday.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I made someone's list. Thanks! I think I may be reading rec'd stories for the rest of the year.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[xionin.livejournal.com]

there are couple of people i haven't seen before. i'm going to check them out. :]

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Aaagh! I didn't mention you! I knew I'd miss somebody good out.

[mommanerd.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the mention and the recs. I really stumbled onto a goldmine with Andrew, whom I never would have written if I hadn't bothered to answer the challenge by Rashaka three years ago.

Late last week I finally got the opportunity to begin "I am the Walrus" and will follow that up with "Savage Beauty". You are one prolific fella, and I look forward to delving into your wonderfully inventive work and returning the favor of recommending my faves by you.

I deeply appreciate all of your support.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

And I appreciate yours!

[evilawyer.livejournal.com]

Huge congrats to you! You deserve it.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[shadowscast.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the mention! :)

Hmm, so many new authors to check out...good thing I'm on vacation this week!

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Alas, I'm not, and any checking out I do comes at a cost of lost writing time.

[magista.livejournal.com]

You are too kind, sir. That's some pretty august company you've put me in. ::feels underdressed::

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

You belong in august company.

[debxena.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for reccing me (and Anne, too, of course). *blushes madly*

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Don't mention it! Sorry I almost missed you out!

[usedtobeljs]

Congratulations on your nominations! :-)

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

"although there are undoubtedly wonderful writers left unpraised, and I’m sure I’ll kick myself for omissions later,"

How true my words were! You and paratti are omissions for which I'm kicking myself now!

Much deserved...

[bbethany.livejournal.com]

Savage Beauty is well-deserving of the many nominations. Your work was recommended to me and over the last couple of weeks I have been working my way through a number of your stories. I am stunned by the wit that runs throughout all your stories. You manage to do both the subtle and the overt - a skill that is not often seen or at least not done well as you have done.

I am also appreciative of your extensive list of authors you have been recommending - many I am not familiar with. I look forward to hours of enjoyment thanks to your pointers.

Thanks.

Re: Much deserved...

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this lovely feedback.

I noticed you Friending me and I have Friended you right back.