February Round-Up

This month has been another difficult one and there are no guarantees that March will be any better, but I'm hoping to work around all the problems. I have been suffering from low spoons, which has resulted in me spending a lot of my time asleep, as well as dealing with issues at home. Unfortunately this has meant that I haven't posted any of the prompted stories from my last session, although I am working on them and hope to get them posted as soon as possible, and I still have two to post from the session before last. I'm sorry if you've been waiting to read a story.

For February the free story was Jack - An Asexual Vampire (part 1) (LJ link), which was written from one of ysabetwordsmith's many prompts.

There were four random stories posted, three for the World Walkers collection: Mab's Story (part 1) (LJ link); Zoe's Story (part 1) (LJ link);  and Rhiannon's story (part 1) (LJ link); and one story for the 'Astral' World collection: Veronica's Story (part 1) (LJ link).

I also wrote some fanfiction for aldersprig's web serial Addergoole. Ursula's First Night at Addergoole (LJ link); Guntram (LJ link); Livi - The First Morning (LJ link); and Adelaide (LJ link).

The donor perks page (LJ link) was edited this month. If anyone has suggestions for any other perks, preferably different to what can be purchased with credits, please let me know.

Plans are underway for creating a website, which will be especially useful for selling ebooks, and I'm looking at spending around about £23 for the domain and hosting.

The first newsletter (LJ link) will be going out this month.

One piece of bonus material was posted: The Origin of the Vampires (LJ link) for the Donor House collection. I have another in progress and two more to start.

No donations were received.

Again signal boosting low side, so I'm not going to hold the draw.

The surprise draw, which I've held every month, is not going to be held this month. There are several draws that have been completed and when I've informed the winner I haven't had a reply. I'm not sure if it's because people aren't interested or if there is some other reason, so I'd like some feedback on this. I personally love the suprise draw, but if it's just me than I might change things around a little.

Plans for March include: catch up on everything I didn't get done during February, especially the admin work I was planning on doing; start working on the donor filter (once I've tested something out); normal monthly posts - free story, collection spotlight and character spotlight.

My goals for March are: write 50,000 words this month and raise at least £50 in donations.
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March Free Fiction: Magi Collection: Introducing Marnie (part 1): 1753 words

The matriarch of the Magi would never forgive anything she perceived to be morally wrong. That was why she would never be open to the possibility of helping the Carne, even in their hour of greatest need. They had once, long ago, kept them as slaves and, even though there was no longer anyone in either race who lived through those days, she would not forget that. So when a Carne male walked into the council hall one autumn afternoon, in the same way that someone from any other race would, everyone already knew what her answer to his plea for help would be. Her daughter Marnie knew better than anyone because she had been the one to listen, unwillingly, to the many diatribes her mother had gone on.
 

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Collection Spotlight

This month the spotlight is on the Brotherhood collection.

What do you want to know? Ask me questions about the characters, the places, the history of the collection or anything else you can think of. You can even ask the characters questions.  All answers will be posted under the collection spotlight tag and linked to under your question, because I don't want the post to get too cluttered or for too many spoilers to be posted here.

What stories would you like to see written? Want to see more of Lucas? Interested in the other houses? Then tell me here.

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Character Spotlight

This month the spotlight is on Lucille, from the World Walkers collection.

What would you like to know about Lucille? Ask me any questions you can think of and I will endeavour to answer them. All answers will be posted under the tag character spotlight and linked to under the questions because I don't want the post to get too cluttered or have too many spoilers posted here.

Tell me what stories you'd like to see. Would you like to see her interacting with other characters? Travelling to other worlds?

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