First post!

First post in my writing journal! ^__^ I still need to do stuff to it, prettify it some more and everything, but it's a start. A thank you to [image error] emily83176 for the awesome icon, I have a real life journal as well under the name [image error] silverblaise but I haven't updated that in . . . at least a year, probably closer to two. ^^;

I started off in fanfiction, and got up the nerve to write and submit an original story to Dreamspinner after seeing a link to their site on AFF.net. Checking out the Call for Submissions page there was one for an anthology where the theme was matchmaking, and before I knew it a story had started to form in my brain. That story was Hot Property, which was published in the second volume of Make Me a Match that came out in November 08.

Make Me a Match 2

I squealed out loud when I got the e-mail saying my story had been accepted (luckily no-one was around to hear me) and couldn't stop grinning. There are some amazing stories in there, I feel so lucky to have mine among them. Check it out!

Gaining confidence from that I decided to try my luck again and wrote a story for the Christmas Dreams Anthology which was accepted as well. Called New Culture New Year New Love it's about an American spending New Year's in Scotland and finding someone to spend it with. I really enjoyed writing this one. Scotland has, I think, a unique way of celebrating New Year's (which we call Hogmany) which I thought would make for a different and interesting story. It was also fun writing Trent and his discomfort at being in such a strange, cold land, and the interplay between him and Andy. I am not finished with these two yet, there is so much more to explore with them, and I have plans to write more with them soon!

All 31 of the Christmas Dreams stories were reviewed by [image error] emily83176 and [image error] elisa_rolle . I'd been told about Emily reviewing the stories and was very nervous as I waited for mine as it would be the first review of one of my published stories. I was so happy to be given such good reviews by both of them! (Yep, I grinned like a nutter again. :-D)

Emily's review

Elisa's review

A wide range of incredible stories are in the Calendar as well, from funny to sexy, historical and modern. In fact a lot of them made me incredibly jealous, they were so good! Definitely a bargain for the price, I know I enjoyed all of them!

Christmas Dreams



So I will be writing more, in fact I already am, I can only hope I'll get these stories published as well and that readers will enjoy them. I know I have enough ideas bouncing around in my head to last me for a few more years at least. I'm hoping writing them will make the annoying voices go away, but I doubt it, and really it would get very boring if they did. In the meantime I will try and write about what I'm writing on here and hope to make lots more friends while I'm doing it. ^__^