Dreamer's Sanctuary

Wow, look at that, two days in a row!  When was the last time that happened?

I don’t have any actual story updates to post today, but the site does have a new look!  Surprise!  This layout change was sort of a spur-of-the-moment decision, courtesy of the crazy “polar vortex” weather we’ve been having in the Midwest, which has kept me out of school for the past two days.  No complaints here!

Anyway, I decided that it was time for a change.  I was ready for some color around here!  I hope you like the new layout.  I don’t know if anyone reading this now will remember, but the main page of the very first version of this site had a cloud background, so consider this a homage, though without the Comic Sans font and annoying midis playing in the background.  The site’s come a long way since the year 2000!  Thanks for continuing to visit!

And finally – HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NICK!

Sorry it’s been such a long time, but Rose and I finally have an update on Song for the Undead to share with you!  Chapter 106 has been posted.  We hope you enjoy reading it on the new site!

In honor of Harry Potter Weekend on the ABC Family Channel (for those of you in the U.S.), I’m posting two chapters of my crossover story, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Backstreet Boy.  Chapters 4 and 5 are up!  Hope you enjoy!

In sticking with my resolution to update more, I posted another chapter of Guilty Roads.  Chapter 16 is up!  This is probably the last chapter you’ll get for awhile, since Chapter 17 isn’t done yet, and it’s been awhile since I’ve actually worked on the story.

I plan to post some more chapters of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Backstreet Boy in the coming weeks, since I’ve been holding out on you guys for awhile with that one.  Stay tuned!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I know it’s been a long time since I’ve updated the site, and I apologize for that!  As I mentioned in a previous update, I am in the process of getting my master’s, in addition to working full time, so the writing time I used to have on the weekends is often spent writing things for school instead. 🙁  As a result, I’m rusty and scattered when it comes to writing fanfic, but I want to assure you that I still have plenty of ideas and every intention of continuing to write when I can!

I realized I’ve been hoarding several chapters of my in-progress stories since summer that I wanted to start posting.  So I’m going to start with Chapter 15 of Guilty Roads.  I have one more chapter where this one came from that I will post soon, but after that, it may be awhile before I update that one again.  I haven’t worked on it since July or so.  Just warning you so you can decide whether the new chapter is worth reading or not!  I will understand if you don’t want to commit.

I also have more chapters of my Harry Potter crossover ready to post, and I HAVE been working on that one again lately, so stay tuned in the coming days/weeks for those!  I may have a new story or two up my sleeve as well, but I’m waiting to see how much progress I make before posting anything new.  I don’t want to leave you guys hanging too long on anything else!

As always, thanks for visiting the site, thanks for reading my stories, and thanks for leaving feedback!  Whether I’m writing or not, I always appreciate it!  Just FYI, Yahoo has been a hot mess lately, and I haven’t been able to access my email, so if you email me and don’t hear back, tweet me or post on my forum if you need to get a hold of me.  Thanks!

Here’s hoping for more updates in the new year!

I have a couple of new old short stories for you today.  I wrote both of them for the Fairy Tale Challenge over at Absolute Chaos, which required us to write a fanfic twist of Beauty and the Beast that fit our writing niche.  The challenge was anonymous, and the goal was to see if we could identify the writer of each tale based on how they chose to twist it.  Now that the challenge is over, I can post my two stories under my own name.

The first one I wrote is called Shorty and the Deceased, and the other is Beauty and the Backstreet Boy.  They can both be found on my Short Stories page.  If you didn’t read them over on AC, I hope you enjoy reading them now!

Both of these stories were written back in early August before school started, and I’ll be honest – I haven’t written anything since my last update.  I have been crazy busy with work and class.  Maybe one of these weekends I’ll have the right combination of free time and inspiration needed to write.  Bear with me.  Thanks for your patience!

Also, thanks for your votes at the Double Rainbow Awards!  I won Best Author, Best Series for Broken, Best Novel and Best First Person POV for Curtain Call, and Runner-Up Best Angst for Unsuspecting Sunday!  Thanks again!

I’m sorry for the month-long gap between updates!  School has officially started up again, so it’s been a busy month.  I do have a story update for you, though.  I’ve contributed a new Nick death to the round robin 1000 Ways to Kill Nick Carter, called “This is Nuts!”  Check it out!

Now that I’m back at work, I have significantly less time to write, so my updates are going to slow down.  I am also starting a three-year master’s program, which means less time to write fanfic on the weekends once I start having papers to write and academic reading to do.  I did manage to keep updating all through college, so I have no plans to stop writing or anything, but I did want to warn you that I probably won’t be writing as much.

That said, I do have a few more chapters of both Guilty Roads and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Backstreet Boy finished that I will be posting over the coming weeks, so stay tuned for those.  Thanks for visiting the site, thanks for reading, and thanks, as always, for your support!

And on that note, voting starts tomorrow in the Double Rainbow Awards!  Make sure you go vote for your favorites!

Guilty Roads has been updated with Chapter 14.  Finally, an update on Kevin!

Song for the Undead has not been updated, but it does have a brand new look!  Check out the new site at http://dreamers-sanctuary.com/undead

As you may have seen, I’ve been nominated at the Double Rainbow Awards, hosted by Rose’s site and my affiliate Double Rainbow Fiction.  Head on over to nominate your favorites before August 20th!

As you may have noticed or seen on Twitter, Dreamer’s Sanctuary has been moved to a new server.  After thirteen wonderful years with Yahoo, I switched to a new hosting company, Bluehost, which will supposedly work better with WordPress and save me some money on the cost of the domain.  If the site looked strange or didn’t load correctly for you in the last few days, that is why.

I’m happy to say that the whole site has been moved and seems to be running smoothly so far!  I did make some changes to the structure of it when I re-configured WordPress, so if you had linked directly to any pages on the WordPress site, you may find that those links are now broken.  You can fix them by taking out “/fanfic” from the URL.  I think I fixed all of the links on the site, but if you do notice any broken links while you’re browsing that should be there, please let me know so I can fix them!

The only thing I was not able to backup from the old site were the memberships, or registered readers.  If you left a comment or review on the old site, I will add you back myself with the same username and email address you used to register.  The only thing you will need to do is change the password, which you will receive in an email.  Unfortunately, if you registered but never commented, I don’t have a record of your username to restore your membership, so you will have to register again.  I apologize for the inconvenience!  Registering is only necessary if you want the ability to leave feedback on the site, in order to prevent spam comments.

Now that all that’s out of the way, I do have a new story to share with you.  It’s a short story called Unsuspecting Sunday, and it’s my first attempt at writing a slash!  I have never been a fan of slash, but I wanted to stretch myself to see if I could write in a new genre.  This is the result.  I hope you enjoy it!

Guilty Roads has been updated again with Chapter 13!  This is another Nick-centered one, which I’m sure most of you don’t mind, but for the Kevin fans, I promise, Kevin is coming up in the next one!

Enjoy the update!