Yes, I actually did the review on kjwrit’s All In. After she gave me a kick in the rear by publishing a chapter in it.
I know, I published already today, but I wanted to get it out while I was remembering as well as doing the other 3 reviews I have planned. What can I say, I want to be guilt free for a little while!
So here is the review that you can go read (since I cannot reblog anything on here without you guys not able to click on the post on my end, it’s tricky to do, but possible.):
Yep, click on the banner. (And if anyone talks to kjwrit, the banner is hers to take if she wants it… I felt inspired…)
And since I was told the banner in the last post didn’t work, here is the banner and link for the AIW chapter as well.
After I finish all this, I am off to work on revelations and see what I can do there. I am having a ball listening to the playlist I will admit! And for those worried about the crossover thing, you will understand after awhile. The stories are in their universe, but they do start tying together…
Yes, I moonlight once in awhile as a reviewer for the Non-Canon Awards. I do the TB/SVM section, which, is ALL basically Non-Canon. Hehehehe….
I decided to get back in the mood for the TB/SVM world, the same mood I was in when I started in this awesome fandom. I actually started in my Blog List, wanting to visit old haunts that I haven’t seen in awhile. The first on the list? Gabriella. She had a story I had read a lot of the beginning, but halfway through, I found I couldn’t remember the rest of the story. Score! A reread of a story that I didn’t know the ending of, it was completed as well being a HEA! See, I don’t do NonHEA, so if it is a rec of mine, it has a HEA. (more…)
The results are in for the January 2015 Writing Challenge. And I will admit, I was so shocked on who wrote what!!!
It is my honor to host these contest and read these amazing stories. I love that not even I can tell who writes what, and some are often my betas! This time, without knowing who won what, I read the results from the golden envelope 4Padfoot gave me, and asked the betas, if we can do 4 places. You made your opinion clear, and we acted on it!! Yes.. There are 4 places… And there were over 200 votes!
Just so you know, Charissa is the one in charge of the entries, and giving me the stories, and then when I am ready for the names, gives me them for the banners. She gives them to me after 4Padfoot sends me the results. And they send them in separate Messages, so no one but I am the one to know everything at the end. Yeah complicated, but it works for it!
Without much ado, here are the winners:
Writers, feel free to respond to your reviews, and to grab the banners with your name on them. They are now yours, and I very gratefully thank you all for participating in the contest. I hope you are inspired in the future by a contest.
To read the entries again, please click on the above banner to be taken to the contest page. I updated everything, and many thanks to 4Padfoot for all her hardwork to make the site look awesome. She made it a breeze to get through the updating.
For those that were wondering where the chapters went, well HP is delayed until this week’s posting. When I tell you RL takes precedence, I am not kidding. The chapter is ready, but I will publish it Friday, and hope the beta in charge of the story has a chance to get better. My betas health is more important than getting chapters out.
Today’s was another instance. But the beta had it ready for me late yesterday, but I am not on the computer on Sundays. I will say that I cheered this chapter. Eric gets a haircut!! I have tons of pictures of him with short hair, but hardly any of him with the long hair as you guys could probably be able to tell. So from now on, I will be able to dip into my artsy side for the chapter banners.
As for where I am, I am working on Tin Man, which will probably go pretty quickly. Then I will be getting the rest of the stories out. It may a couple of weeks, but we will see the rest of the chapters come out from the betas. Hopefully, I will be working on the original story at that time.
Once I am done with the rough draft, I will be starting on the other stories, but there will be a short time until I undertake editing, my old way adding lots of stuff to it, and then I will have to figure out what to do with the finished thing. Well after the betas all get their hands on it. Yes, I am not taking a chance, and with all the wonderful betas I have, I am hoping that it will be pretty good.
As for personally, all I can say is that the weather. WE will be going from 76 yesterday to 30’s today. And for the next few days we will be cold, then warm up then repeat. Mamakitty has already gotten bronchitis from the wonderful weather and DadKitty is getting sick. ::knocking on wood:: that my hubby and I don’t catch it. Flu season has hit Houston badly, and it doesn’t look like the weather will be helping!
But I have a warm Connor on my feet, my fingerless gloves on, and I am working on staying healthy. I need to get to writing the new stuff for all our sakes!
Reminders:
Click on any of the Amazon ad’s around, to be taken to the site with my tag and I will get credit. Also, Don’t forget, I add the newest songs for the chapters I update on the mp3. 4Padfoot and I were talking about trying to add the music to the chapters also. Unfortunately, due to the weather on her end, we had to sideline that right now. Stinkin’ weather!
There is a contest over at the Non-Canon Awards going on for crossovers. As a judge, I cannot enter, but I encourage you all to enter! It has been extended…
The February Writing Contest is up and waiting on entries.
For those of you who are part of the Kittyinaz’s Group, this is one of many banners I made for their use for their Facebook Pages. We are also holding the voting for the banner for next month. 1st place is for the Group, and 2nd place is the banner for the Kittyinaz Page. This contest is held monthly, open to anyone who is part of the group. I put ALL the banners on my site, and you can find them all here.
Also, the Writing contest is ending tonight, so get those last votes in! There is still time to vote. And since it is the last day, clear those cookies and you can vote as often as you want! Poll Closes midnight CST.
Now. For the long speech…
This past year has had many things happen for me and the site. The number one is that we moved over to this site. Thanks to everyone for your patience as we did that. We have been busy doing family things, but hopefully this coming year we can explore options and work on getting things even better for this place. I really want the ads to work for all of us!
A huge thank you to my Betas. They make this all possible. Huge thanks to our new ladies, you guys have started to teach me more. I really appreciate it. If you want to join these awesome ladies, please contact me on Facebook. We are looking for experienced betas to be able to hit the ground working. I have about 23 stories who are active, and my muse still likes to drop more on me. From there I talk with the Betas, and we decide from there.
My team behind the scenes, Rissa, Robin and Gyllene, thanks so much for all you guys do!!! Without you three, I would be staring at the screen, trying to transition from writer to tech side. While I could do it, I’m so glad I don’t have to. And Rissa….There are no words to thank you for all the stuff you do!! You not only keep my stories right, help me out when I try to figure out things, but you run the welcome wagon part of the Group, keep track of the stories for the Anthem of the Angels and so much more!!! Without you, I would fall apart soon, and never be able to write. Never doubt your contributions, milady!
And then there is you guys. The ones who make it all worthwhile. Thanks to you, I won some awards this year, but more importantly, you have encouraged me to keep writing, by your comments, and even by you stopping by. This site has had over 600K of hits, and this particular has had over 150K. hits on it. Wow!!!! You guys have supported us with all the plagiarism, and your help has taken down the person who did it to one of my friends.
We have had some awesome responses to the Writing Challenges. It has helped some new writers get started, and it has also given birth to other stories. One of them inspired me on one of the One Shots!
Your patience overall through the bad times and the good times has helped. I am truly thankful to stumbled onto such great readers! You give me the confidence to work on my own novel and hope that it does well enough.
Thanks to those who are following the reblog page. It is getting more and more followers. I reblog everything I get in my emails for WordPress. If you are a writer, please let me know if I am not following you, and I will happily reblog you on the page!! If you are looking for new people, hop over to the site, and sign up.
The Kittyinaz’s Food Blog is also taking off, thanks to Megan and her 25 days of Christmas! I look forward to seeing what she has in store for the next year, along with Leigh Warner who are the two ladies in charge of that site.
For those who follow the Anthem of the Angels site, we are planning to see more happening to it also. I think the Crossover Haven will be getting a makeover.
Thanks for helping make our first You Want Blood Awards such a huge success! We are planning for it the new year’s in May, so be thinking of who you want to nominate. The rules will be slightly different, so be looking for that news coming in the new year.
Also thanks so much for taking a chance with me on the new crossovers and so forth I have come up. Nothing has been abandoned, but my muse seems to enjoy bringing up new ideas.
All in all, we love your interest, and thanks to you, these sites are up and running.
So what does the new year hold for us? Well the Banner above should give a hint of what I am going to try to get to!!
As soon as all the written chapters are off to the betas, I will be working directly on getting my rough draft for my novel out for the betas to all tell me what they think as well as the proofreaders. After that, I plan on finishing In The End, and then to work on Edge and continue from there. Since I am planning on doing things a little different all around, I am hoping that these chapters will be turning around quickly.
Remember, writing is always evolving, especially when you are me. I like to be better and often work towards this. I am trying something new with the new Charmed story, and it is working well. I may end up sitting down and working on putting all the ideas for the story in their journals, that way I can make sure we end up where I want, while giving my muse the freedom outlines didn’t.
And because of my plans, I am actually worried about overloading my betas, since many of them beta for others, as well as write themselves. I fully encourage them to write, and to do their thing. so I want to make sure they have the time to do all they need to. They do this all for free, and I don’t’ want them to feel obligated to do my stuff instead of them. Ask any of them, I am real insistent on their lives come before my stories.
I am also planning to work harder on my rec lists, to get them done and in the database. I am working on SVM/TB soon, since the You Want Blood Awards will be kicking in soon.
I also plan to work on all the obligations I have, like the Non-Canon Awards and so on. RL came in and while nowhere as bad as the past two years, it still kicked my butt.
For me personally, I am planning on balancing my work and my family. I am so very lucky to be married to my husband, who fully supports me doing this, and only has asked for me to concentrate on working on my novel. He gives and gives, and I love him for it. I wish to plan to keep up what we have been doing this past month, and spend time in the evenings together. Though he completely understands the need to write or make banners.
I do not do resolutions, since I hate failing at anything, and often have set so high of plans, I fail and beat myself up about it. So I plan to do better. I wish to get healthier, which has worked. I have been less sick than normal this year, now if my body will stop tearing stuff, I would be awesome!!!
I plan on drinking more water type stuff. Since I don’t drink water except when excising, I am planning on more tea and soda stream stuff. Especially the tea, for Christmas, I took all the gift cards and money sent to me and got myself a tea maker. This things does everything BUT add the water and tea to it. It keeps it warm, it heats up the water to the right temperatures and so on. Right now with my tooth aching so much, the warm tea helps so much. And to do nothing more than those two steps, well it helps. I’m thinking of getting another blackboard for my mom, to write down the recipes I am coming up with. the Tea Blog will be brought back up so I can experiment with the tea maker to make the blends. Right temperature of water helps so much!
We are getting a fence, so I also plan to spend some time each day with the dogs. Throwing a ball training, whatever. And hopefully, this year we can do a garden again. So many plans, but for the first time, I am having the energy to do it all. I also plan to go back to the gym, the trip to Las Vegas is a go, and I want to be able to keep up with everyone! Gotta look good for those pics!
All in all, thank you for a wonderful year, and as you can see, I have plenty of plans for the next year. Now I am going to go off to my drug haze, and be with my hubs.
Thank you, and please vote for the awesome stories for this month!
Yet again this hits us. What is going through people’s head to make them take the work of others and claim it for yourself? That is like someone coming in after Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and say they wrote it. Someone else claiming the Mona Lisa. I can go on and on… How can they feel any sense of pride in themselves?
Really. Think on it. Every review that comes in should be a constant reminder of ‘I stole this… they are praising me for stealing. I am breaking (PS don’t trust spell check!) one of the Ten Commandants.’ A basis of every faith says no stealing. And yet that is what these people are doing. Every review, and for ficlet’s thief, every dollar she earned.
And how can they really think this is going to end? That they will get away with it? Have they never heard of Cheaters never win?!?!?!
ficlet informed me that we had an award winner from You Want Blood awards that stole her story. We have pulled that award from that person, and have formally declared that any such cases will be handled the same way. And since so many people do follow us, well let us just say it does no good. To read the notice, please click on the banner above.
As it is, I feel bad that we didn’t catch this, but to be truthful, we were so overwhelmed with the response from you guys, it was everything we had to make sure all the stories were in rules we had set. I remember many a times of waking up, working on the lists, and then going to bed just to repeat. The other ladies were doing the same, even sneaking in time at work to get it done. So there was no way to do anything but see if the story falls into the rules.
Since I am on another site than WordPress, I cannot just share the report as I used to do. But at the same time, this gives me a chance to say my piece as well.
Yep. We did it again! Another Tea Shoppe and Twilighted Tea Shoppe chapter are coming your way! The above banner was done by the Beta for this story, Mommy4Thomas!
Click the banner below if you want to read Alice Hamilton and Hatter aka David Temple.
Click the banner below if you want to read Bella Swan and Hatter aka Peter Whitlock.
The Betas talked it over, and this will be updated biweekly. But there will be updates, and the chapters will be started to post on the other sites soon.
VEGAS!!!
Yes!! Bertie Bott and I will get to meet this Thursday. We will also be meeting the stars of the Vampire Diaries (IAN!! and Daniel Gillies!!!). But somehow, I am so impatient to meet Bertie. Tomorrow I will be starting the packing, and like my hubs always complains, I will probably pack too much. Ah well. Its vacation. What if I spill something… or don’t feel like the outfit I picked out?!?!?! LMAO!
I will be posting to Facebook from Vegas. I think (I don’t know for sure) but I do know for sure that WordPress Whisperer has a Vegas page ready. If she will be taking from Facebook or not to post, I am not sure. But.. I WILL be posting to the Kittyinaz Facebook Group. click the above Banner to be taken to the page. If anyone will be in Vegas from September 11-15th, well we will be there….
Ok.. KILL BILL Contest!!!
You guys kept asking, so I am opening it up. You have until the end of the month to get those entries on them. You can Kill Bill as many times, as inventive as you can come up. I can hint that if you give Sookie and Eric a HEA, it probably will help out too. I will be building the page here shortly for the contest. The rules generally are the same, stick with the theme. You do NOT have to use True Blood. If you want to use Kill Bill as an other source… Please do!! Imagination is the key folks!
I am also writing. I am on a roll for the Harry Potter fic, and I am hoping to finish it soon. From there I am hoping the muse sticks around long enough to write more IND before leaving, but if she wants to write more on the other subjects, that is fine. I think she was mad since I stopped writing. I was trying to give you guys chapters! That should count for something right? I also need to finish my piece that was for Kelpie’s writing contest that won, I am planning to finish then hand it over to Meridian and she is going to work on it from there. It will be both of us, but no one will complain that we plan to make this a multi chapter fic right? I plan to write the story, and she is going to expand it. Odd Collaboration, but it should work for all involved.
For those who may have wondered, Gyllene’s HEA contest ended, and the winners sooo deserved it! Congrats! I entered a one shot and I will be working it to load it here, with a banner. When I get time! I also have another one shot that I need to clean up and get up here. It is a AH Eric/Sookie fic.
So there is plenty going on. I wish to thank all of you that asked me to write a huge thank you. I have been torn trying to work on chapters and not being able to. So when the bug hit me, I decided to let you guys know. Your response inspired 2 chapters that night. Not the chapter I was thinking was coming, but still… It inspired them! I wrote the chapter I was inspired to write last night, and yeah. The Muse is in charge on this folks. Sit back and enjoy the ride. And teasers are being posted in the group now.
I’m off to finish posting and so on… then I will be writing. I only have so much time before I will be with Bertie…. Gotta write!
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