Authors
Code Blue was started by two Backstreet Boys fanfic authors, Rachel and Julie. We wrote most of the original story ourselves and then decided to make some changes and re-write. During the re-write, a new author, Bianca, joined the line-up. Bianca helped finish the re-write and contributed to one new episode before the story took a long hiatus. Finally, after three years of only sporadic updates, we decided to try a last-ditch effort to get the story going again by recruiting a team of writers, which we dubbed “The Code Team.” The idea behind this was that TV shows like ER, which we modeled our story after, are written by teams of writers rather than just one or two people; CB is a big project, and we thought it would help us to have a lot of people collaborating together to get the story updated. You can find out more about the CB authors by reading our bios below.
Julie
Julie, the webmistress of this site, was born in 1985 (you do the math), lives in Illinois, and is currently in college. She’s majoring in elementary education, with a minor in history, and plans to teach for a living. Some of her hobbies include writing, reading, movies, listening to music, playing the piano, web design, and scrapbooking.
Julie first heard of the Backstreet Boys in early 1998, when she started hearing “Quit Playing Games” and “As Long as You Love Me” on the radio. She started to become a fan after first seeing them perform on Nickelodeon’s All That, which was when she became a Brian fan, even before knowing his name. She bought their first US album in the summer of ’98, and by the time Millennium came out in May ’99, she was obsessed. She read her first fanfic (JJ’s Blind Love) that summer and quickly became addicted. She started writing her own that winter and got her first story Heartache hosted in early ’00.
To read Julie’s other stories and find out more about her, visit her site Dreamer’s Sanctuary.
Rachel
Rachel was the mastermind behind CB. Her birthday is August 27, 1981, and she currently lives in southern Virginia. Rachel has been working at a pharmacy for awhile now and is a certified pharmacy technician. Her hobbies include reading, watching tv, listening to music, going to Kenny Chesney concerts, and visiting friends.
1999 was the year Rachel became interested in the Backstreet Boys and in fanfiction. It first started out as browsing information pages about the BSB and finding links to fanfiction and reading them and loving it. Shortly after discovering the world of fanfiction, Rachel began her first novel A Test of Faith to be followed by her most popular story Living in a Nightmare and other stories including collaborations and short stories. She now writes 98 Degrees fanfiction.
Visit Rachel’s site Starlight Catcher’s Fanfic Page to read her BSB fanfiction.
Bianca
Bianca was born on May 18, 1983 (Millennium was released on her birthday =P). She lives in southeastern North Carolina and is currently taking some time off from school and working at the bank. When she isn’t working, she enjoys listening to all types of music, writing, reading, singing, shopping, hanging out with her closest friends, watching tv, among other things. Right now, she isn’t exactly sure what she wants to do with her future, but she’s working on it.
When Bianca was 14 years old, she saw the video “Quit Playing Games” for the first time on MTV (when it was still a cool channel); it didn’t take very long before she was completely hooked. Fanfiction came later when she first read I Need You Tonight by Angie. During the summer before her sophomore year of high school, she decided to try her hand at writing her own, and thus, she and her best friend began a website and it continued from there.
Wanna read Bianca’s stories or learn more about her? Visit her site The Backstreet Market.
Rose
Rose is 19 years old and was born October 8th, 1986. She currently lives in southern Nevada. She loves to write, sing, read, watch Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and enjoys any book written by Stephen King, VC Andrews, or Anne Rice. She’s bounced from crummy job to crummy job, as she just pays her way through college and various important BSB items and concerts.
When Rose was only 10, back in 1996, her cousin, who was in Europe at the time, sent her a red CD by this group she said was huge there. That group happened to be the Backstreet Boys, and after hearing “Roll With It” and “Quit Playing Games,” she became an instant fan. When she had her cousin send her Backstreet’s Back after getting the US debut of that CD as well, “As Long As You Love Me” hooked her, and this became her favorite group. However, her fanfic days did not start until the days of Black and Blue, when the video for “The Call” inspired a story idea and she decided to go with it since she had read various fanfics on the net. (Although the particular story it inspired was never posted.) She had seen great fanfics, her first one being the infamous Bria’s Shards Of A Shattered Life. She had loved writing regular stories before this and figured, why not incorporate her favorite group into it as well?
Rose’s fics can be found on her site Double Rainbow Fiction.
Sabra
Sabra is an 18-year-old high school student from Illinois who will soon be attending college, also in Illinois. Her major will be Journalism, and she doesn’t know what her minor will be yet. She was born on March 14, 1988, a minute after her twin sister, Kirsten. Her interests include singing, dancing, acting, reading, writing, playing video games, languages, traveling, anime, manga, drawing, and fashion design.
She became a Backstreet Boys fan in 1997 after hearing “Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)” on the radio, but didn’t discover BSB fan fiction until 1999. Also in 1999, Sabra became a fan of *NSYNC and proved that a teenybopper can like both boybands. She started reading Code Blue in 2001 or 2002 after finding a link on a random BSB fan fiction site. After reading in the Code Blue newsletter that they needed writers to be part of the Code Team, Sabra instantly applied to be a part of one of her favorite stories on the Internet. She has written three other fan fiction stories, but none of them are BSB or *NSYNC related. She wrote two *NSYNC ones, but never liked the stories enough to post anywhere. Her first posted one, The Mt. Dew Chronicles, was written in 2002 with her older sister and her twin sister. The other two stories, The Lord of the Soda: The Fellowship of the Soda (which has been discontinued for the time being) and Not Another Broadway Story! (which has been taken off the site it was on for being in play format) was written with her twin sister. Her favorite Backstreet Boy member is Brian, and her favorite *NSYNC member is JC. In Code Blue, she has too many favorite characters to name at the moment, and her least favorite character is JC.
Sabra’s stories are posted on Fanfiction.net (Sabra would like to note that these stories were written at least 3 or 4 years ago, and hopes that she has improved her writing skills since then)
Other members of the Code Team include Amy, Jenn, Louise, Sarah, and Shauna.