Category: Updates

You may have seen the BSB song tournament brackets floating around social media over the past couple of weeks.  I filled out two different versions last week for a fun way to pass a few minutes of boredom while in quarantine.  Click the thumbnails below to enlarge them.  I posted a blank copy next to my completed brackets in case you want to fill them out yourself.  The second one was definitely more challenging, as far as decision-making goes.

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In honor of Dreamer’s Sanctuary’s upcoming twentieth anniversary, I thought it would be fun to make a fanfic tournament for my readers to vote on… so I did!  Click the thumbnail below to view a full-size version of the tournament bracket.  If you want, you can save a copy to fill out with your personal picks, then tweet me a picture @RokofAges75!

The actual tournament will run for the rest of this month.  This week will be Round 1, which starts with 32 stories from Dreamer’s Sanctuary.  I included a variety of stories – old and new, short and long, all different genres – and tried to match them up in a way that made sense.  I’ll post a poll for each head to head match-up, and you’ll be able to vote for your favorites.

Click here to cast your votes for Round 1!

That’s right, I actually have an update for you and not just another blog about an old story!  Blogging may have gotten in the way of fiction writing these last few weeks, but there’s nothing like being quarantined by a deadly virus to get me back on track.  I finally finished The Year Without a Pandaskunk!  Yes, the Christmas story I started writing in December and haven’t updated since January.  Fail.  But hopefully it’s worth the wait – I’m quite happy with how it turned out!  I’m posting Part VI tonight.  Please check it out, if only to see the hilarious photoshop I spent hours making on a whim in the middle of updating. I’ll continue to update weekly until I’ve posted the rest of Pandaskunk.  I’m hoping by then I’ll have another new story that’s far enough to start posting.  That may be wishful thinking on my part, but hey… one of the few perks of quarantine is lots of extra time to devote to fanfic.  So it’s certainly possible!

Stay well, everyone!

Part V of The Year Without a Pandaskunk has been posted, and with that I’m officially caught up to myself.  This is all I have written.  Hopefully I’ll be able to write Part VI this weekend so I have something to post next weekend.  It may not matter because I don’t think many of you are reading this, but that’s okay.  I’m writing this for my own amusement.  After my last story, it’s nice to write something relatively light-hearted and silly for a change.  I’ll be ready for some more drama when this one is done.

For anyone who is actually reading this, I hope you enjoy the update!

Well, I survived my first week back at work and am currently enjoying a very lazy, snowy weekend.  I haven’t written a damn thing since last weekend because I got sucked into reading Broken as I was working on my Wayback Wednesday post, and so I’ve spent the past few days living in 2003.  I haven’t attempted to read Broken or its sequel since I wrote Curtain Call because I thought I would be disappointed, but you know what?  At the risk of sounding arrogant, I am super proud of the eighteen-year-old who wrote that story!  It is delightfully dated and cringe-worthy in a few parts, but overall, it still holds up.  Next I’m gonna try to make it through By My Side, which I’ve never actually read beyond proofreading chapters before I posted them.  I’ll be blogging about that one in a couple weeks!

In the meantime, I finished Part IV of The Year Without a Pandaskunk last weekend, so I’m posting that tonight.  Hopefully I’ll finish Part V by next weekend so I can update again then.  Because I am a stickler for details even in a stupid fantasy story like this, I googled photos and watched several videos of pandas giving birth to write the first scene of this chapter.  Spoiler alert:  Newborn pandas look nothing like pandas and are not particularly cute.  Newborn skunks, on the other hand, are adorable!

You’re welcome.

I’m getting back to my weekend update routine, as I have to go back to work next week.  Part III of The Year Without a Pandaskunk has been posted.  It’s Christmas with the Carters, y’all!

I also finally got around to converting A Heart That Isn’t Mine into ebook format, for those who like having that option to read on their devices.  It’s available to download in three different formats on the eFics page.  The titles on this page are listed alphabetically, but I realized as I was adding it, my stories inadvertently ended up perfectly categorized by topic, too.  A quick scroll through the list reveals I’ve written exactly four types of novel in the past seventeen years:  1) Nick cancer romance (x3), 2) psychological thriller disguised as medical drama about heart disease (x2), 3) AIDS slash, and 4) post-apocalyptic zombie epic.  Maybe I’ll branch out a bit more in this decade, LOL.  I probably won’t write any more stories about cancer or heart transplants – but hey, never say never!