Dreamer's Sanctuary

It’s sure been a week in the Backstreet fandom, hasn’t it?  Odin celebrated his fifth birthday on Monday, BSB celebrated their twenty-eighth anniversary on Tuesday, Nick and Lauren welcomed their new bundle of joy on Wednesday, AJ released a new song and video on Friday, and it’s apparently Brian’s parents’ 50th anniversary today!  Congratulations to all!  My prayers are with the Carters that things with Baby Carter continue to improve and they’re able to come home from the hospital soon.

I wish I had a happier chapter to post today, but this story I’m writing is a huge downer.  I promise it won’t be depressing all the way through.  Chapter 5 of My Brother’s Keeper is up!  Thanks to those who are reading and leaving comments; I appreciate hearing your thoughts!

Technically, no, but it’s been a long week, so I’m updating a little earlier than planned!  Chapter 4 of My Brother’s Keeper is up!  This is the chapter that I got stuck on three years ago with this story, but after some rewriting, it’s finally ready to post.  I can’t tell you what a good feeling it is to get to this point.  The writing has been going a lot better since I came back to this story in February; I’m working on Chapter 14 now.  Thank you so much to those of you who have taken time to read and leave feedback.  I really appreciate it!

Thank you to everyone who read the first two chapters of my new story, My Brother’s Keeper!  I’m back with Chapter 3.  Hope you enjoy!  Feedback is appreciated.

I said in my last update, “I said in my last update I hoped to have a new story ready to post by May, and guess what?  I made it a whole month early!”  That part wasn’t an April Fool!  I have been writing a real fanfic, and I’m ready to start posting it.  It’s not the Brian horror story, but the Kevin and Nick drama, My Brother’s Keeper.

This one has been a long time coming.  I actually got the idea for it way back in the summer of 2013, but I had just started Sick as My Secrets, so it went on the backburner.  I came back to the idea in the summer of 2017 after I finished SAMS, and wrote the first few chapters between July and January.  I was feeling so good about it that I put up the first two chapters as a sneak peek on New Year’s Day in 2018.  I wanted to get further into it before I started posting it “officially,” but I was pretty sure I was committed enough to it to be able to continue it.  Then 2018 happened.  I didn’t write a whole lot the rest of that year, until I got on a roll with another new novel, A Heart That Isn’t Mine.  I still loved the idea for My Brother’s Keeper and felt fairly confident that I would return to it when the time was right, but I had to get AHTIM out of my head first.  But now, three years later, the time is finally right.  I’ve been working consistently on this story since February, revising my first draft and writing six new chapters.  I have ten total now and am on a 21-day writing streak, so things are going well enough that I feel ready to commit to weekly updates with this one.

The first two chapters have been “officially” posted, and I’ll be back next weekend with Chapter 3!

Synopsis:
As the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2008, Kevin Richardson felt like he had it all:  a wonderful wife, a beautiful baby boy, and a newfound freedom to do whatever he wanted to provide for his family.  Not like his former bandmate, Nick Carter, who could barely take care of himself, let alone someone else.  But when a tragic accident changes Kevin’s life forever, Nick is forced to step up and start caring for his friend.  Will he rise to the occasion, or will Nick crumble under the pressure of trying to support Kevin and straighten out his own life at the same time?

Genre: drama
Starring: Kevin, Nick
Status: incomplete
Published: April 2021 – present

Guess who’s back… back again!  Julie’s back!  Tell your friends…

I said in my last update I hoped to have a new story ready to post by May, and guess what?  I made it a whole month early!  I’ve been hard at work on the Brian horror story I mentioned back in January, and I have a sneak peek of it to share with you today!  It’s called Come Find Me.  Be warned – this one’s pretty horrifying!

I’m trying something a little different with this one:  an audiobook!  (Audiofic?)  I’ve thought about recording audio versions of my fanfics for readers who are visually impaired or just prefer to listen to stories, but never got around to trying it before.  This new fic just felt so atmospheric that I thought it would be a good one to give it a shot with.  So the sneak peek I’m giving you today is the audio version.  I’m curious to know your honest opinions before I move forward with making audio versions of the rest of the chapters.  Do you like this format?  How many of you would actually listen to chapters instead of reading regular text if that was an option?  Please leave a comment and let me know what you think!

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Synopsis:
He was caught in a web of lies, lost and confused, crying out for help. He sent a desperate message, begging to be found. He made a fateful mistake, which would come back to haunt him.

Genre: drama, horror
Starring: Brian
Status: incomplete
Published: April 2021 – present