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She was mean and she had seashells in her hair!
Know Not Why is now available at Amazon's Kindle Store!

Booyah! And stuff.

(How dated is the phrase 'booyah,' exactly? And why can't it stay young foreverrrr?)
 
 
 
She was mean and she had seashells in her hair!
25 April 2012 @ 06:32 pm


(ft. adorable fanart by [info]chibirhm! ♥)


Hello, world! I am still stupidly excited over sharing my bb Know Not Why with the world at last, and like anyone who cut her writin' teeth (... okay, that's creepy) on the sweet sweet elixir of wonderful comments on her fanfiction (and FanFiction.Net reviews, if you wanna get OLD SCHOOL), I am dying to hear what people think. I am also sort of worryingly inclined toward having big spazzy fangirly feelings over a tale that is technically of my own creation, but - oh well!

SO! If you guys have any questions at all, or just want to tell me what you thought, or what actors you picture as the characters (I would love to know this! I have never managed a complete dream-casting of this thing), or are perhaps dying to know my Howie Jenkins playlist, or, like, some fascinating trivia (oh, there's trivia!), absolutely bring it, friends!

This might just turn into me spamming this post with silliness, but I am okay with that.

COOL LINKS, BRO
+ Currently for sale @ Smashwords! I am looking into putting it in Amazon's Kindle Store as well; would that be good, do you think?
+ If you feel like puttin' your reviewer hat on, it would be the coolest if you left me a rating or review at Goodreads or Smashwords!
+ My sporadically updated blog is currently featuring a post on what moved me to write this in the first place. :)
 
 
She was mean and she had seashells in her hair!
Know Not Why: A Novel [here @ Smashwords; goodreads page] - Howie gets a job at Artie Kraft’s Arts ‘N Crafts hoping to score with his lady coworkers. After all, girls love a sensitive guy, and what’s more sensitive than dedicating your life to selling yarn and … stuff? (Okay, so maybe it’d be a good idea to actually learn what one sells at an arts ‘n crafts store.) But things don’t go exactly according to plan. Coworker #1 is Cora: tiny, much-pierced, and way too fierce to screw with in any sense. Coworker #2 is Kristy: blonde, bubbly, unattainable perfection. And Coworker #3 is, well, Arthur. It goes without saying that he’s not an option. Right?

… Right?

Yeah, Howie’s life just got straight up confusing.

Pun intended.

Chapter One - a thrilling sneak peek! )
 
 
She was mean and she had seashells in her hair!
For Dana on her birthday (in three hours)! ♥




Whatever our souls are made of - Gilmore Girls | Rory/Paris | 3,500 words. Edward Cullen tries to woo Rory. Paris does not approve.


Who is THAT? )
 
 
She was mean and she had seashells in her hair!
29 March 2012 @ 01:59 pm


Then I may tell you that the very next words I read were these — “Chloe liked Olivia…” Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

“Chloe liked Olivia,” I read. And then it struck me how immense a change was there. Chloe liked Olivia perhaps for the first time in literature. Cleopatra did not like Octavia. And how completely Antony and Cleopatra would have been altered had she done so! … Cleopatra’s only feeling about Octavia is one of jealousy. Is she taller than I am? How does she do her hair? The play, perhaps, required no more. But how interesting it would have been if the relationship between the two women had been more complicated. All these relationships between women, I thought, rapidly recalling the splendid gallery of fictitious women, are too simple. So much has been left out, unattempted.

(Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own)
 
 
She was mean and she had seashells in her hair!
26 March 2012 @ 05:53 pm
it's you season - Mary/Lavinia, AU fluff, for [info]oliveoyl's prompt: "I am a hunter. And it's you season." :D

This is Very Serious Stuff Of The Highest Order. The odious Amelia comes from Adventuring for Ladies.

It's tradition. )
 
 
She was mean and she had seashells in her hair!
26 March 2012 @ 02:27 pm


a.k.a. the [info]oltha_heri and [info]oliveoyl and i get an excuse to post lots of prompts ficathon


It's a legit thing, okay! The world needs all the Mary/Lavinia adventures.

rules (?)
+ One prompt per comment. Feel free to submit as many prompt-comments as you'd like. The more the better! If you'd prefer platonic fic to shippy fic, just specify that in your comment.

+ If you respond to a prompt, include a title in the subject line of your comment if you are using a lj layout that has subject lines. If you're not, please put that same information at the top of your comment.

+ Okay, that's as authoritative as I feel like being right now!

+ Spread the word:




Masterlist of Responses )