I was cruising around some of the small presses today to check out any open calls and ... What the hell, man?

To the publishers:
If there are terrible grammar and spelling mistakes on your front page, I have to give you the side-eye. Seriously, "they're" is not the same as "there." It leaves me questioning how well the editing will be.
Why do you not have any deadlines on your submission calls? That's something I'm interested in knowing so I can schedule writing around my TV watching.
Your social media settings are wrong. Why didn't you try out your links before putting your site live? That kind of carelessness does not inspire confidence in anyone.
Your site is a WordPress. How do I know? You made no changes to the meta login widget AT ALL, plus you're using a generic free theme.

I was really interested in this one press because the woman running it is a cover artist that did some absolutely beautiful artwork for another company, BUT her new press looks very fly-by-night. The website looks like it was made by someone that knows less about web design than I do, and I don't know much. Spelling errors and grammar errors (a comma is not to be abused) and it basically looks too shady for me. I'll check them out again in the future to see if they're still around. (It also doesn't inspire confidence that I have more Twitter followers, more fans on Goodreads, more fans on Facebook, etc than the press and the owner/operator, who is also an author, put together.)

There are some people that get a wild hair to create a small press. Unless you know what you're doing, don't. Do some research. Read some failure stories and see why they happen. If you're a self-published author needing some way to pimp your shit, becoming a publisher of other people's shit is NOT THE WAY. Especially if you don't correctly incorporate your business, you have no operating budget, and you don't have competent editors.

Anyways, if ...

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I like to put on AMV Hell in the corner of my screen while writing. I just click VLC player to Always On Top and it works great. I'll be writing away to a montage of usually upbeat music, and what I catch of the action will give me a boost of creativity. I love the AMV Hell movies so much!

What: Everyone that leaves a comment at the master post will receive an ebook copy of "Slipping Through the Cracks," by Harper Kingsley. A mm romance.
When: Happening now.
Why: Part of the Hop Against Homophobia and Transphobia. Also a chance to win the Allies & Enemies short "Psychotic."
How: Leave a comment at the masterpost. Make sure to fill out your email address.
Where: harperkingsley.net/blog.
Ends: May 27th, 2013.


Here's the first part of Slipping Through the Cracks. Check out the rest. Comment at Harper Kingsley's blog and receive an ebook copy.

Title: Slipping Through the Cracks
Author: Harper Kingsley
Character: Franz Caulder/Ryan Wilder, Dr. Pamela Werth, Nicole Carson
Genre: mm
Rating: mature
Summary: Kid Nitro went to sleep in his own bed, and woke up on another Earth in the body of an alternate Franz Caulder. It's a world without metabilities, which is jarring enough, but it's also a world where Other-Franz is a mental patient grappling with some serious problems.

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Franz went to sleep in his bed.

He woke up to a changed world.

The first thing he noticed, even before he opened his eyes, was that his sheets were strangely scratchy and his mattress was mysteriously hard with more jabby parts than he had ever experienced before. He imagined it was what lying on a bed of nails was like.

Franz sat up with a groan and his eyes widened in shock as he looked around

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So I was reading this Supernatural fic that started off good but then just kept going and going and finally I was just like, "No. No more!" I rarely abandon a story, but I just had to on this one. And it wasn't that it was awful or anything; it just started getting really draggy. It felt like the author was trying to bulk up a finished story with needless drama.

What should have been a vaguely melancholic story of Dean left alone after everyone else dies and having his suicide halted by the arrival of a now human Castiel "retire to the country" romance story; instead became a 100K monstrosity of "I love you, but I can't love you."

I think it was Fanfiction Net syndrome. You know, that thing where everyone is in this silent contest to write the longest story in the history of Internet history. Sometimes it's great, and everyone knows I love epic fics; where the action is always flowing forward and there's not a 20K behind the curtain scene right smack in the middle of everything.

I'm curious about how the story ends, but not enough to wade through until the end. Sorry. Just can't do it.

Ooh, I'm excited about this. The world needs more Inception fic in it.





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Title: Faster Than the Speed of Love
Author: Feygan
Fandom: Harry Potter
Character: Draco/Charlus
Genre: slash, time travel, soulmate

There seemed to be a question hovering around Charlus. For long weeks
it seemed as though he desperately wanted to ask something. But he
never voiced the question and Draco never had to answer and their
lives moved on.

Draco realized that he had done a terrible thing. It would have been a
kindness to have just killed Tom Riddle, rather than to have Ensnared
him in such a manner. Riddle would sink into the madness of his
Longing and eventually he would fade away like a bug drawn too close
to the light. And for every moment he was without Draco, Tom Riddle
would suffer unspeakably until he would be begging for death

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So the Hop Against Homophobia and Transphobia is going on now, May17-27.

Follow the daily posts at http://harperkingsley.net/blog of "Slipping Through the Cracks," by Harper Kingsley. It's an mm novella. Make a comment, then on the 27th you'll get a PDF copy of the full story, including the sex-scenes that were cut out of the posted version.

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Title: Faster Than the Speed of Love
Author: Feygan
Fandom: Harry Potter
Character: Draco/Charlus
Genre: slash, time travel, soulmate

CHAPTER SIX

It was strange how quickly time moved when he was happy. The days of
torture and despair had seemed to drag on forever, thousands of years
compressed in upon him until he couldn't breathe. But now that he was
full of the joy of living, time flew so fast it made his head spin.

Charlus had accepted a position at the Ministry and was quickly
climbing up the ranks. Something to do with his inherent Potter charm
and his sheer determination to succeed. It made Draco's chest warm to
realize that Charlus was doing everything he could to see him happy.

Hadrian was growing everyday, and at two years he was a laughing,
talking child. He was no longer a baby but a toddler, inquisitive and
full of Potter charm.

That Potter charm. Draco had completely fallen for it, and he didn't
even try to catch himself. He wanted to fall and fall forever, until
he was bound so tightly to Charlus that they could never be parted.
And that's how he knew he was in love

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Title: Faster Than the Speed of Love
Author: Feygan
Fandom: Harry Potter
Character: Charlus Potter/Draco Malfoy
Genre: time travel, slash, soulmates

Draco was lying curled around Hadrian's pajama clad form on the
low-set child's bed. The lights had been dimmed and there was a
nightlight mobile projecting autonomous shadows that danced and
capered on the walls. The only sound was Hadrian's puffing breaths and
Draco's toneless humming.

He had closed his eyes and his head felt like a peaceful place for
once. The sweet baby smell of Hadrian soothed some primal instinct he
hadn't realized he possessed

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Title: Faster Than the Speed of Love
Author: Feygan
Fandom: Harry Potter
Character: Charlus Potter/Draco Malfoy
Genre: slash, time travel

All of his life he had thought that he was happy, but it was only now that Charlus knew what happy truly was. Because every day that he could feel the warm rush of Draco's presence in the corner of his mind was a good one.

There was no loneliness with a soulbond, he found. He had Draco as a constant sense of warmth, and as a result he went through his days with a besotted smile and a lightness to his step

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Title: Journey To Another Hell IV
Author: Feygan
Fandom: BtVS/Anita Blake
Warning: Xander's seriously creepy.

Xander couldn't help the pleasure he felt at Nathaniel choosing him again. He might have thought the man would run off scared after the experience they'd already shared, but he'd gone with it all jelly cool.

He couldn't help wondering how hard it would be to break Nathaniel down to nothing. He wasn't going to do it, but having the option available gave him happy feelings.

Xander grinned. He could see Nathaniel becoming his favorite toy. Because no matter what he did, Nathaniel would always come begging for more

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Title: Paradigm Shift
Author: Harper Kingsley
Genre: mm science fiction
Rating: mature
Status: WIP
Notes: This is a State Rule story. There are Judges, Law Officers, and zombies.
Warnings: genetic modification capability of mpreg, mentions of forced breeding, fascist society, post-zombie apocalypse

Summary: Gregor has been living as a Two for most of his life, but it's a lie. He's really a Third. And now he's been found out and pulled into the lives of one of the great Families.

"I am a member of the Family," Park stated as though it was everyday kind of news, and to him it probably was. Gregor was shocked enough for two people. "The Family requested that I assess you for the possibility of merging your genome with the Duadenora."

"And I passed?" Gregor hadn't meant to ask, but the words had slipped out.

Park looked amused. "So far."

- 01 - 11 - 21 - 31 - 41 -
- 02 - 12 - 22 - 32 -
- 03 - 13 - 23 - 33 -
- 04 - 14 - ...

Title: Off to See the Wizard
Author: Feygan
Fandom: BtVS/Anita Blake
Genre: slash, crossover

Knowing that Oz had come from a different world was completely
different than watching other visitors appear. It opened up the
possibility that Oz was going to leave, and honestly Jason didn't want
to see that happen.

They'd only known each other for a little while, but he didn't want Oz
to leave. He wanted to yell at him that he had to stay, but he knew
that was childish and weird. They were just friends, nothing
more

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So this is totally about The Cabin In the Woods. I've wanted to see it for awhile, but I never got the chance. Only now it's on Netflix and I saw it as the perfect opportunity to get my fix.

I went into the movie already a bit pre-spoiled because of Robot Chicken and other venues that gave the whole plot away, but I was still entertained.

There was plenty of action and violence, but then the ending happened and now I want to write a bunch of fix-it fanfic, and how crazy is that? It was just a bit frustrating for me.

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Have you ever met someone that's completely negative all the time? No
matter what the subject is, he has to point out the worst possibility
or twist things around so he can rant about something unbearably
horrible.

Some people wear rose-colored glasses, but this guy's glasses are
black and barely let a sliver of light through. And it makes him feel
the best to share the misery, especially with people that are having a
good time. He likes to wreck the mood and turn smiles upside down
wherever he goes. It's his one party trick.

Maybe he's depressed. Unfortunately, any suggestion that he seek
professional help is met with verbal and sometimes physical
aggression. It's sad and uncomfortable, but he refuses to be helped.

Title: Faster Than the Speed of Love
Author: Feygan
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Charlus Potter
Genre: slash, time travel

"It was the least we could do." Nigel brought his wand out and with a
quick flick conjured a stuffed white rabbit that he wiggled in front
of Hadrian.

Draco wanted to point out that even though Hadrian was obviously a
brilliant baby, he was still just a few months old. It would be a
while yet before he would start caring about toys or anything else.
Draco bit his tongue instead and watched Nigel attempt to entertain
his grandson

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Watching Adult Swim and my big thought was: How the hell did these Loiter Squad kids get their own show? Seriously, in what world does that happen?

I think my interest in Adult Swim programming is severely curving away. I'm still panting after the new season of Venture Bros, I'd love some more Metalocalyse, and I'll probably never give up watching the American Guy (sic), but there's not much else on Adult Swim that I care about. All this live action crap is pretty much my limit and I can't take anymore. The only problem I have is finding another network full of late night adult cartoon shows. And there's where the problem starts.

Whatever happened to watchable TV?

Just because we have the Netflix technology, why does that mean 24-hour infomercials on a dozen channels, then nothing good on any of the other channels? It's infuriating, like all the networks decided to sell-out at one time. This is the perfect  opportunity for some network like TNT, USA, or WGN to start showing episodes of shows I would otherwise have nothing to do with, but that end up being super awesome. Think Xena, Hercules, Charmed, The Closer, and Rules of Engagement. Those were all shows that perked my late night interest straight into prime time, and it's time for another show.

And if some network is looking for a cool show to syndicate, might I suggest The Tribe? It's that dystopian future show about the world after every person over 16 died of a horrible plague, and the kids left alive have to figure out how to go on. They color their hair bright hues, paint their faces, form tribes, and go to war against each other. Plus there's the army of kids driving around on tanks taking over the world.

Jack was always my favorite on the show, but Lex was the kid with the real story behind him. He was a bully that had a backstory of casual abuse. He's vulnerable but hides it, which results in him coming across as a frightening jerk. He got power, then sc...

Title: Faster Than the Speed of Love
Author: Feygan
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Draco/Charlus, slash

CHAPTER FIVE

Living through the war had left deeper scars than Draco had realized. There were things that made him jump in fright and it was only the magic in his sheets that let him sleep at all. It felt as though he was contracting in on himself, all the parts of him pulling away from his flesh to become shriveled and microscopically small

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Sometimes I'm busy with RL stuff or I'm just not being very attentive
to various things, then I come on LJ and I'm confused about what's
going on with a friend's journal. Not being in on their crisis from
the beginning, I am left wallowing as to why they're freaking out,
which inevitably results in a mondo-research session just to figure
out WTF is going on.

So the next time I'm having a crisis of fanfiction, I will make sure
to put a little message at the top or bottom to recap what all is
going on with me. That way people don't have to be confused and they
don't have to ravage my LJ and find out that I like cats. (I REALLY do
like cats, btw. I would totally trade my dog in for a cat if I could
[not really.])

Anyways, the weather is currently beautiful here and my dog and I are
sitting out under our giant maple tree enjoying the weather. I have
updated ParaShift, in case anyone follows that, and will be updating
the AO3 version sometime later tonight (after seven Pacific time.)

*In case you're wondering what ParaShift is, that's my sci-fi mpreg
story. I tried to come up with a realistic way that mpreg could happen
that doesn't involve magic or assbabies. NBecause while babies are
cute, the idea of assbabies is kind of gross. So I turned to to the
wonders of science and I'm doing my best. There's also political
intrigue, a fascist society, and a romance that people seem to be
enjoying.*

Back to work.

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Title: Fantastic Angel
Author: feygan
Artist: queenmidalah -- artwork
Fandom: Dark Angel/Fantastic Four
Character: Sue, Max, Reed, Johnny
Genre: genhet, action
Rating: teen (for wounds)
Word Count: 5020
A/N: This is a story for the 2013 Dark Angel Reverse Bang.

Summary: During a lab accident Sue contains a powerful explosion and is wounded. The only thing that can save her life is undamaged genetic material from her multiversal twin.

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