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Finances are very very bad right now, so I'm putting up this Paypal button in case anyone can help. If any of you can help, even a little, I would be grateful beyond measure.




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PLACES YOU CAN FIND MY WRITING:

PUBLISHED WRITING:

"The Lindorm's Twin" for I Do!, an anthology in support of marriage equality. All profits go to the Lambda Legal Fund. Copies may be purchased in e-book and in print.

Queer Magic, anthology by Iris Print, to be published November 2007. Said story accepted for this anthology. However, the anthology has not been printed or distributed to date, and it seems likely that it will not be. As of May 19, 2008, there are rumors that Iris Print is closed and may be out of business, though the writers have not received any notification of bankruptcy. Also as of May 19, 2008, after MONTHS of having this book up on pre-order (despite the problems that the publisher was having), Amazon.com is finally listing the anthology as "Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock."

Iris Print has also sent at least one royalty check which has bounced. (The check wasn't mine.)

"Lubberkin,"Deep Magic, Issue 27, August 2004. The speculative fiction e-magazine is now out of business.

"Silver,"Monsters, anthology by Torquere Press. The anthology is now out of print.

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FANFIC:

DISCLAIMER, as of 5/29/2007: It should be noted by anyone reading my fiction that even though I frequently read and write about things which are illegal, such as FICTIONAL homosexual relationships (which may or may not be legal, depending on where you live), FICTIONAL torture (of the magical variety), or FICTIONAL escapes from prison, this does NOT mean that I promote, condone, approve of, perform, exhort, or urge others to perform any of those activities in real life, or any others you think are illegal, because I know the difference between fiction and nonfiction. I am NOT telling you you should do anything illegal. I hope that if you are reading my stories, you also know the difference between fiction and nonfiction, and do not confuse works of fiction with real life acts.


Here's my Trope Bingo Card for 2014. I hope I do better with this one.

EDIT: Diagonal single line bingo as of April 7, 2014!

coming out (of the closet)	meet the parents / family	soul bonding / soulmates	au: supernatural	wingfic
role reversal	language and translation	au: other	epistolary	trapped in a dream
au: mundane	celebratory kiss	kidfic (FREE SPACE)	indecent proposal	au: romance novel
au: apocalypse	au: crossover	snowed in	sex pollen	fake relationship
transformations	bets / wagers	deathfic	presumed dead (Chapter 2)	secret twin / doppelganger

Stories, essays, translations, and podfic should be 500 words or more; vids and songs should be 20 seconds or more; art and comics should be finished pieces (whatever that means for you); scanlations should cover a finished comic or an entire story arc; icon sets and gifsets should contain at least five icons/gifs; photosets should contain at least 10 images & 100 accompanying words; recs sets should be ten recs OR 500 words long (and those can be recs of anything, not just fic recs); picspams should be at least twenty pictures long; fanmixes should contain at least ten songs; poems and crafts can be whatever size you like. Combination fanworks must fill at least one requirement – so a picspam-illustrated story should have either 500 words or 20 pictures (or both).

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Genprompt_bingo (received March 2, 2014--Deadline June 1, 2014): Genprompt Bingo Round Two posted July 21, 2014--Amnesty Period.

Original characters	Snakes, Serpents and Worms	Mutation / Transformation	Journalists and Chroniclers	Spiders (Giant, Radioactive, or otherwise unusual)
Genderswap	Episode Tags and Missing Scenes	Team Mates	Icy Politeness	I am your father/mother
The Cost of Magic	The Underclass: Urchins, Beggars and Outcasts (Chapter 5)	Wild Card (Fusion with another fandom)	World Ends in First Paragraph	Film Noir
Action / Adventure	Crack Treated Seriously	Infiltration	Ghosts and Hauntings	Oaths / Promises
Women Being Awesome	Gods / Angels / Demons used to Comedic effect	Pack	Minorities / Characters of Colour / Women in Canon - Please be careful not to use offensive stereotypes	Exile / Stranded

Genprompt Bingo Round Three--June 1, 2014 to September 1, 2014. Card Received on July 22, 2014

Hey, you're... me: meeting alternate universe counterparts	Historical AU	Secrets and Lies	Parody	Phobias
You're only young twice: Age Regression	Amnesia	Speech-deprived	Detective AU	Betrayal
Case / Mission Fic	Sufficiently Advanced Technology	Wild Card (Reincarnation)	Steampunk AU	Light-Hearted
Cowboy AU	Hallucinations / Visions	Crossover: TV shows and movies	Shapeshifting	Mirror, mirror: Doppelgangers, clones and evil doubles
Film Noir	Spells and Geases	Drama	Mystery	Action / Adventure

Written work must be at least 100 words long. Single images need to be more complex than a simple crop of a screencap or publicity still, but crops are acceptable if multiple images are being submitted. List-like fills (e.g., rec lists, fan mixes and pic spams) should contain at least three items.

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Table angst/hurt/comfort

bullying	tears	hospital	caring	tissue
desperation	alone	help	hug	No!
leave me alone	betray	friends	sick	breath
hiding place	melodrama	passing out	still alive	soulmate
secrets	healing	apocalypse	drunk	reassuring

An Archive Of Our Own Most of my recent fanworks are there, including my Dresden Files/Hellblazer novel, Besieging Omelas.

The Archive: A Collection of Dresden Files Fan Fiction (Just what it says. Most of the stories are gen, though one is slash.)



Gehayi's Skyehawke Page (pretty much everything--Harry Potter [including my Peter stories], Good Omens, Buffy, Angel, a little bit of Discworld, and an extremely snarky poem)

The Peter Pettigrew Pages (all of my Peter stories are at this site's Peterfic Database)

The Regulus Arc (AU stories about what might have happened to Regulus Black if he had gone after Sirius on the night Sirius ran away from home. Some were written by me, and some were written by thistlerose. The site where they were archived is now permanently down. My arc stories are still archived at Skyehawke.

Saunter Vaguely Downwards--a Good Omens Fanfic Archive (self-explanatory, I think.)

I removed all of my stories from Fiction Alley. You can read about why here.



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Ket Makura and I have finished sporking Fifty Shades of Grey and are now sporking Fifty Shades Darker. (Thanks to LJ posting limits, we've had to break up a few chapters into two parts.)

FIFTY SHADES OF GREY

Introduction
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four (Part I)
Chapter Four (Part II)
Chapter Five (Part I)
Chapter Five (Part II)
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine (Part I)
Chapter Nine (Part II)
Chapter Ten (Part I)
Chapter Ten (Part II)
Chapter Eleven (Part I)
Chapter Eleven (Part II)
Chapter Twelve (Part I)
Chapter Twelve (Part II)
Chapter Thirteen (Part I)
Chapter Thirteen (Part II)
Chapter Fourteen (Part I)
Chapter Fourteen (Part II)
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen (Part I)
Chapter Sixteen (Part II)
Chapter Sixteen (Part III)
Chapter Seventeen (Part I)
Chapter Seventeen (Part II)
Chapter Eighteen (Part I)
Chapter Nineteen (Part I)
Chapter Nineteen (Part II)
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three (Part I)
Chapter Twenty-Three (Part II)
Chapter Twenty-Four (Part I)
Chapter Twenty-Four (Part II)
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Blurb
Final Thoughts

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FIFTY SHADES DARKER

Introduction
Prologue
Chapter One (Part I)
Chapter One (Part II)
Chapter Two (Part I)
Chapter Two (Part II)
Chapter Three (Part I)
Chapter Three (Part II)
Chapter Four (Part I)
Chapter Four (Part II)
Chapter Five (Part I)
Chapter Five (Part II)
Chapter Six (Part I)
Chapter Six (Part II)
Chapter Seven (Part I)
Chapter Seven (Part II)
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten (Part I)
Chapter Ten (Part II)
Chapter Eleven (Part I)
Chapter Eleven (Part II)
Chapter Twelve (Part I)
Chapter Twelve (Part II)
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen (Part I)
Chapter Fifteen (Part I)
Chapter Sixteen (Part I)
Chapter Sixteen (Part II)
Chapter Seventeen (Part I)
Chapter Seventeen (Part II)
Chapter Eighteen (Part I)
Chapter Eighteen (Part II)
Chapter Nineteen (Part I)
Chapter Nineteen (Part II)
Chapter Twenty (Part I)
Chapter Twenty (Part II)
Chapter Twenty-One (Part I)
Chapter Twenty-One (Part II)
Chapter Twenty-One (Part III)
Chapter Twenty-Two (Part I)
Chapter Twenty-Two (Part II)
Fifty Shades Darker Blurb
Final Thoughts (Part I)
Final Thoughts (Part II)

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FIFTY SHADES FREED
Acknowledgements and Dedication
Prologue
Bonus Materials: Fifty's First Christmas
Bonus Materials: Meet Fifty Shades (Part I)
Bonus Materials: Meet Fifty Shades (Part II)
Bonus Materials: Meet Fifty Shades (Part III)
Chapter One (Part I)
Chapter One (Part II)
Chapter Two (Part I)
Chapter Two (Part II)
Chapter Three (Part I)
Chapter Three (Part II)
Chapter Four (Part I)
Chapter Four (Part II)
Chapter Four (Part III)
Chapter Five (Part I)
Chapter Five (Part II)
Chapter Six (Part I)
Chapter Six (Part II)
Chapter Seven (Part I)
Chapter Seven (Part II)
Chapter Seven (Part III)
Chapter Eight (Part I)
Chapter Eight (Part II)
(Christmas/Yuletide break--December 16, 2014 to January 26, 2015)
Chapter Nine (Part I)
Chapter Nine (Part II)
Chapter Ten (Part I)
Chapter Ten (Part II)
Chapter Ten (Part III)
Chapter Eleven (Part I)
Chapter Eleven (Part II)
Chapter Twelve (Part I)
Chapter Twelve (Part II)
Chapter Thirteen (Part I)
Chapter Thirteen (Part II)
Chapter Fourteen (Part I)
Chapter Fourteen (Part II)
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen (Part I)
Chapter Sixteen (Part II)
Chapter Seventeen (Part I)
Chapter Seventeen (Part II)
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty (Part I)
Chapter Twenty (Part II)
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two and Author's Note
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Epilogue
Blurb
Final Thoughts


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A quote worth remembering:

Will Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast -- man's laws, not God's -- and if you cut them down -- and you're just the man to do it -- do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law...for my own safety's sake.

From A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt

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And a quote about writing:

Ian Rankin, he of the best-selling Inspector Rebus mystery series, once said, and I am wildly paraphrasing here, “If I knew what was going to happen, why write the book?”

That’s pretty much how I work. I can’t actually think of a story if I try to outline one. I don’t know what’s going to happen, and I want to find out. So I write it. -- Lisa Brackmann

If you want to contact me on AIM, the screen name is Farquar306.