Welcome back to my site, and to the Fan Works archive. This contains all of the fan fiction I have written over the years, short articles about fandom that I wrote, and some small galleries of fandom-based art I created. If it has anything to do with my fandom-based life, it will go here.
This page will provide you with the latest news about the archive and galleries, including new chapters, revised eBook releases, changes to the pages, and any removals that occur. For some general thoughts about how the world has changed since the stories were written, and how that affects their content, click here.
We are now up to Chapter 93 of The Changeling Game, and are entering the “horse race,” as things start moving fast in the story and the climax approaches. I’m not going to finish it before the New Year, but it will be done by mid-January, which will be followed by the launch (over in Works In Progress) of the sequel, Song of Many ‘Verses.
I will then also begin updating other stories, and splitting my time between them, although I have a feeling my Song muse (which is also my Changeling muse) may object to that, so we’ll see what happens.
The Read Online and downloadable editions contain all of the new chapters, along with some continuity fixes, so this is a good time to download a new copy… and also a good time to let me know if you spot anything that doesn’t make sense, continuity-wise. I’m always open to fixes.
Seriously, this thing is a monster, but it’s nearing its conclusion. We’re now firmly back in the story’s “present,” learning about what happened to Kyra after she and Jack split up and dealing with a few persistent mysteries. Things are nearing their close… and the beginning of the sequel, Song of Many ’Verses. Which will be the first new story within the fandom that I’ve written in more than a decade and a half.
Things changed up a little in the last few chapters, too! The story has gone from being M-rated to being X-rated, from “Gen” to “Het (Plot),” from “No Pairings” to “Riddick/Jack,” and has acquired a warning for “Explicit Sexual Content.” So that changes things up just a bit! I also did a continuity editing pass to streamline the timeline of events and smooth out some contradictory ways of presenting information, so it’s a good time to download a new copy of the eBook; in addition to new chapters, most of the preceding chapters underwent tiny corrections. The story is now up at the 350K word mark, which is an intimidating first for me. I had no idea it was going to get so big, I swear!
My posting speed is dropping down a little over the holidays because of some other obligations I have right now, but we’re getting close!
It’s been almost two months since I updated the online copies, but I have now added chapters 61-77 to the existing eBooks and Read Online pages, so now’s a good time to get a fresh copy. We’re (finally!) back in the Frame Story, which means Riddick has reappeared… and does he ever have a lot of opinions about what’s happened so far.
(But no, he’s not saying “too many words.” HA! That’s a Riddick that We Just Don’t Talk About around here…)
But I am a little agog at how big this little story has gotten. Still, we’re getting much closer to the finale and then the launch of Song of Many ’Verses, which will proceed at a more sedate pace so some of my other incomplete stories can advance toward completion, too. This has been one heck of a wild ride, folks, but I’ve been loving every minute of it, and hope you have been, too!
I plan to post a single chapter of Song each week, so that I can begin updating Forbidden Gifts (which people on Ao3 have been clamoring after). I hope to also start updating Falling Angels and The Slow Burn again, too… and working out a kind of balanced schedule for advancing all of those stories to their conclusions. No promises how that will all work out, though… muses like to hijack me.
I will try to get back to updating the archive roughly every five chapters, too. Cheers!
I’m still maintaining a two-chapters-per-week pace at the moment, to my amazement… and now I’m starting to see the “light” at the end of the tunnel. I definitely won’t be done by the 20th anniversary of the first chapter’s launch… but this story has taken a number of surprising turns along the way that I never could have anticipated. Somehow, when a tiny bit character named “Tomlin” first appeared in the story, everything changed… and next thing I knew, my heroines were getting immersed in unexpected intrigue and a culture that I’m honestly fascinated with. Plus a little crustacean crawled out of nowhere and took over.
These things happen…
It’s looking like there are another 10-15 chapters to go before we return to the “frame story” and Riddick reappears in the “flesh.” But there are some wild twists ahead and my Jack Muse is not happy with me about them… hopefully she won’t start holding chapters hostage to try to get me to rethink the plot, though! Anyway, I hope you’re enjoying the ride as much as I’m enjoying piloting the course through this ’verse… and now is a good time to swap out your copy of the eBook for a new one if you’re keeping it on your Kindle. See you again soon!
Chapters 48 to 50 of The Changeling Game have been added to the archive, both to the Read Online section and to the eBook downloads. A few further continuity edits have been made to earlier chapters in the process, so this is a good time to replace your old Identity Theft eBook if you hadn’t already done so… and a good time to replace your replacement.
Meanwhile, all of the archive pages have been cleaned up of the mess that ACF created. I found a rather fun and tidy way to fix it. That said, the fix was complex enough, and requires enough knowledge of back-end programming, that I can no longer recommend ACF for anyone trying to build an archive without delving into how to write scripts in the process. That plugin is no longer a beginner-friendly option. Still, it means that once these muses stop running me ragged and give me time to work on the other sites’ relaunches, it’s still within the realm of the possible. I’d been afraid that it wouldn’t be, so whew.
Now that all of that crazy coding drama is behind me, I hope to get “caught up” on my writing. For a while, I was writing four chapters ahead of what was actually going up, and at the moment I’m down to only being two chapters ahead. Hopefully I can build up my front-log so that I can keep ticking away at two chapters a week. We’re coming up on the 20-year anniversary of when I posted chapter 1, after all (September 5) and I’m tempted to see if I can post the finale by then… if my muses cooperate and don’t stretch the tale out by too many more chapters, that is! Fingers crossed!
