Update: 28th March
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k_a_webbThree and a half days left of my sale, so now would be the time to take advantage if you wanted to adopt a character for three or six months, rent a setting for the same length of time, or purchase any story bundle. Remember that buying during this sale will mean that you get your next purchase for half price too. If you don't have the money right now I should tell you that I do accept payment in installments, so if you're interested then PM or email me for information.
As a couple of people were interested in more information about each of the collections I thought I'd begin with a very short introduction of all of them, before focusing on a couple at a time. I currently write in 13 different collections - some of them are much more complicated than others and because of the way I write (which I found best due to my intense perfectionism, because it means I now write and post instead of rewriting something multiple times) there are stories all over the place in most of them. There are also several crossovers and AUs. You'll find that there are more stories for certain collections, because they're ones that have been enjoyed by someone who is willing to post prompts for them, or ask for more of any story, and this is something I really want my readers to do more of. Knowing that I have a reader who is that interested makes writing so much easier. Another thing I love is when I have readers so interested that they want to write in my worlds themselves, or create characters, or give me a hand creating settings (especially in the World Walkers collection, as it keeps growing and growing, even though it was going to be hard enough just writing about the thirty-seven worlds of the Web).
It seems that the current favourites, which have been favourites for a long time now, are the Donor House and World Walkers collections.
The Donor House started off as an idea when I was writing Lacey's story, who was a girl entering a building full of vampires because they were paying her for her blood, but then it was something that had been around for years. I think it was around a century that the House had existed and then I started writing about the beginning of the House, thanks to a prompt fromysabetwordsmith. That was when I found out it was nowhere near as old as I though it was when Lacey entered and that happened to be not long after their first death, so now I find myself exploring the lives of the vampires and donors within the House, learning more about each of them as I write. Some of them lie, to each other, to themselves, and, annoyingly, to me, so you'll find as I write more it's going to be likely that I'll end up having to either go back and change things or write an explanation as to why the story is actually different to the way it turns out to be in the future.
For those of you who don't know me well I often get story ideas from dreams. The World Walkers was one of them and the dream I had was of a girl stepping through a door that took her from winter to autumn. When I first started planning for the collection it was going to be nice and simple - four worlds, which each had one season - but then it turned out to not be that simple at all. No, I found out, while I was writing one of the early stories, that actually the Web was much more than that. Someone could step through a door and go from winter to autumn, and that's something that I do plan on exploring more in the future, however they might find themselves on a world with animal races of some form or covens of Witches attempting to destroy each other or even on the same world at a different time. That was when I started writing Lucille's story, as I knew she could travel to all the known worlds, although I did start it after writing about Taithmarin, and it was when I was writing for Lucille that I realised Taithmarin was one of the last worlds. Ever since then it's grown and grown.
I found that the Web had been created by the fae (or a fae race that thought of themselves as the only fae) because they had been forced to abandon their home world: Kalinia. Another group of them had travelled to Earth, in order to save themselves from extinction, and created a school where humans with fae blood and the fae, as well as shapeshifters and mer people, could all learn together, but, sadly, the fae Queen, Willow, is finding that her elders (who had once helped to guide her father) think that she should have taken over the Earth instead of trying to work with the humans. The Fae World is another collection that has grown, so I have stories on Kalinia, on other worlds that races from Kalinia fled to, on worlds that fae magic has made real that were once nothing more than fiction, and it does help to have other people to work with on things like this, so if anyone would be interested tossing ideas around, for this or any of the collections, then PM me or send me an email.
Along with these I have three other fantasy worlds. They're all works in progress, so I know a little about each of them, and there's every chance I might find out that they have some connection to either the World Walkers or Fae World collection, the way I did with what was once called the 'Astral' World collection, but actually turned out to be post-apocalyptic Kalinia. So they are: Aurora's World, where what magic you have is linked to your date of birth; Heliopath's World, where magic is something that the bodies of the mages who use it don't actually like, so the stronger magic you use the greater the reaction is (so using black magic , the highest level, often leave the mage bed ridden for several days, while green magic, the lowest level, will give the user an awful headache when they finally stop using it for any period of time); and the Magi collection, where the Carne are suffering from a disease that the Magi might be able to help with, if they weren't still angry with the Carne for once keeping their ancestors as slaves. With every story I write about these worlds I learn a little more about them, so prompts for them are always useful, and I would love for someone to rent them or adopt a character within them, because those are wonderful ways for more to explore them.
We have one fantasy Earth collection - the Brotherhood. Here we have the Millennium Children, because the bug wasn't a hoax, but something else entirely. From the 1st of January 2000 onwards children were born with powers, powers that they had never had before, and I started writing this collection from Kara's point of view. I'll be honest - in that story Kara reacts in a way that she later comes to regret (much faster than even I expected, because someone uses her as a distraction) through anger and love. She keeps doing it, as she's one of those people who acts first, normally, and thinks afterwards. Again this is one of those collections that I learn more for through writing it and I have so many AUs I want to write that I'm not sure where to start (I know for certain I want to write one where Kara's male, because she ends up in a relationship with two of the people who become her closest friends and allies, so I have this urge to see what would happen if they were all male).
Moving on to something entirely different we have the Thear collection. Originally, a very long time ago, this was a story about a world of people who had found themselves with too few females and came to Earth once a year to collect some, in order to marry them to the men of Thear. It was about arranged marriages and leaving home, and I'm going to be exploring that in one of my AUs, because I still think it's fascinating. However Thear is now a very different place. (Notice how Thear is an anagram of Earth.) There are three races, who once worked together and now aren't, and one group who call themselves Thearans, that chose to leave the others to fight amongst themselves while they make themselves a home in North Square. One of my favourite things about this collection is that they have Earth deities helping them.
Which led to the Deities' World collection. This began when Callidora started pinging me, rather insistently, because she wanted me to tell her story - the story of the next generation. Since then, well, I'm sure this won't surprise anyone, it's grown. It didn't help that Lucifer (the god) decided he wanted me to write his story too, because he wants more people to know of him, and then other people started leaving prompts for other deities, including Papa Legba (who is technically not a deity, but still wants me to write for him). I'll be the first to admit that these are my versions... or their versions... I'm not entirely sure, so they might not be anything like the deity (or demon, in the case of Lucifer) that you might work with. All I know is that I'm pretty much writing what they want me to write.
As a pagan myself I wanted to write about paganism, so I have a Pagan collection. It started with Anna, who lost her memory and chose another name, but is actually a walk-in in someone else's body, and that led to me writing about her brother, her circle, her friends, and how this has affected her. What it's like to be thought of as another person when you know you aren't them. Fortunately she does have friends who have accepted her and she's beginning to work out where she wants to be going with her life, now that she's on Earth. This includes whether she wants to follow her bodies' religion - Paganism (of some form - Charlotte, who died before Anna took over her body, was pretty eclectic in her practice).
I'm a lover of post-apocalyptic fiction and I wanted to see what would happen if the world was left populated, almost entirely, by children and teenagers. So I gave all the adults an injection that killed them (it was a contraceptive meant to work on both genders, because the World Government was worried about population growth). Now I write stories in this world to see how much things have changes, although this is one of the few where almost all the stories start at the beginning and work on from there. It makes sense, really, because I have no idea what's going to happen in the future - it's as though I'm getting it in timeline order from whichever character chose me to write their story.
Then I have the Inquisition collection, because I wanted to know what the world would be like if there was still an Inquisition. At the moment there aren't very many stories for this one, as I'm still working it out, but one thing I've come to realise is that it isn't an Inquisition run by the religious, but the anti-religious. Someone who believes in something, whether they're Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Pagan, or any of the other myriad religions, has to keep who they are secret, otherwise the Inquisition will come for them. At the moment my focus in on the Pagans, as I know most about it, but now that I know who the Inquisition are I can switch to other religions if it feels right.
My final collection is the Afterlife collection. This does connect, occasionally, with the Deities' World collection, but the focus is one the spirits of the dead and the angels. I'll be honest, when I started writing this I wasn't planning on adding angels to the mix, and then it happened, so I now know that my angels have no idea why they exist, which makes for some interesting conversations. The first character I started writing was Caitlyn, but I've found that one of the favourite characters is Richard, who is the current Death, and I'm glad, because writing about him, and his relationships is fascinating.
As a couple of people were interested in more information about each of the collections I thought I'd begin with a very short introduction of all of them, before focusing on a couple at a time. I currently write in 13 different collections - some of them are much more complicated than others and because of the way I write (which I found best due to my intense perfectionism, because it means I now write and post instead of rewriting something multiple times) there are stories all over the place in most of them. There are also several crossovers and AUs. You'll find that there are more stories for certain collections, because they're ones that have been enjoyed by someone who is willing to post prompts for them, or ask for more of any story, and this is something I really want my readers to do more of. Knowing that I have a reader who is that interested makes writing so much easier. Another thing I love is when I have readers so interested that they want to write in my worlds themselves, or create characters, or give me a hand creating settings (especially in the World Walkers collection, as it keeps growing and growing, even though it was going to be hard enough just writing about the thirty-seven worlds of the Web).
It seems that the current favourites, which have been favourites for a long time now, are the Donor House and World Walkers collections.
The Donor House started off as an idea when I was writing Lacey's story, who was a girl entering a building full of vampires because they were paying her for her blood, but then it was something that had been around for years. I think it was around a century that the House had existed and then I started writing about the beginning of the House, thanks to a prompt from
ysabetwordsmith. That was when I found out it was nowhere near as old as I though it was when Lacey entered and that happened to be not long after their first death, so now I find myself exploring the lives of the vampires and donors within the House, learning more about each of them as I write. Some of them lie, to each other, to themselves, and, annoyingly, to me, so you'll find as I write more it's going to be likely that I'll end up having to either go back and change things or write an explanation as to why the story is actually different to the way it turns out to be in the future.For those of you who don't know me well I often get story ideas from dreams. The World Walkers was one of them and the dream I had was of a girl stepping through a door that took her from winter to autumn. When I first started planning for the collection it was going to be nice and simple - four worlds, which each had one season - but then it turned out to not be that simple at all. No, I found out, while I was writing one of the early stories, that actually the Web was much more than that. Someone could step through a door and go from winter to autumn, and that's something that I do plan on exploring more in the future, however they might find themselves on a world with animal races of some form or covens of Witches attempting to destroy each other or even on the same world at a different time. That was when I started writing Lucille's story, as I knew she could travel to all the known worlds, although I did start it after writing about Taithmarin, and it was when I was writing for Lucille that I realised Taithmarin was one of the last worlds. Ever since then it's grown and grown.
I found that the Web had been created by the fae (or a fae race that thought of themselves as the only fae) because they had been forced to abandon their home world: Kalinia. Another group of them had travelled to Earth, in order to save themselves from extinction, and created a school where humans with fae blood and the fae, as well as shapeshifters and mer people, could all learn together, but, sadly, the fae Queen, Willow, is finding that her elders (who had once helped to guide her father) think that she should have taken over the Earth instead of trying to work with the humans. The Fae World is another collection that has grown, so I have stories on Kalinia, on other worlds that races from Kalinia fled to, on worlds that fae magic has made real that were once nothing more than fiction, and it does help to have other people to work with on things like this, so if anyone would be interested tossing ideas around, for this or any of the collections, then PM me or send me an email.
Along with these I have three other fantasy worlds. They're all works in progress, so I know a little about each of them, and there's every chance I might find out that they have some connection to either the World Walkers or Fae World collection, the way I did with what was once called the 'Astral' World collection, but actually turned out to be post-apocalyptic Kalinia. So they are: Aurora's World, where what magic you have is linked to your date of birth; Heliopath's World, where magic is something that the bodies of the mages who use it don't actually like, so the stronger magic you use the greater the reaction is (so using black magic , the highest level, often leave the mage bed ridden for several days, while green magic, the lowest level, will give the user an awful headache when they finally stop using it for any period of time); and the Magi collection, where the Carne are suffering from a disease that the Magi might be able to help with, if they weren't still angry with the Carne for once keeping their ancestors as slaves. With every story I write about these worlds I learn a little more about them, so prompts for them are always useful, and I would love for someone to rent them or adopt a character within them, because those are wonderful ways for more to explore them.
We have one fantasy Earth collection - the Brotherhood. Here we have the Millennium Children, because the bug wasn't a hoax, but something else entirely. From the 1st of January 2000 onwards children were born with powers, powers that they had never had before, and I started writing this collection from Kara's point of view. I'll be honest - in that story Kara reacts in a way that she later comes to regret (much faster than even I expected, because someone uses her as a distraction) through anger and love. She keeps doing it, as she's one of those people who acts first, normally, and thinks afterwards. Again this is one of those collections that I learn more for through writing it and I have so many AUs I want to write that I'm not sure where to start (I know for certain I want to write one where Kara's male, because she ends up in a relationship with two of the people who become her closest friends and allies, so I have this urge to see what would happen if they were all male).
Moving on to something entirely different we have the Thear collection. Originally, a very long time ago, this was a story about a world of people who had found themselves with too few females and came to Earth once a year to collect some, in order to marry them to the men of Thear. It was about arranged marriages and leaving home, and I'm going to be exploring that in one of my AUs, because I still think it's fascinating. However Thear is now a very different place. (Notice how Thear is an anagram of Earth.) There are three races, who once worked together and now aren't, and one group who call themselves Thearans, that chose to leave the others to fight amongst themselves while they make themselves a home in North Square. One of my favourite things about this collection is that they have Earth deities helping them.
Which led to the Deities' World collection. This began when Callidora started pinging me, rather insistently, because she wanted me to tell her story - the story of the next generation. Since then, well, I'm sure this won't surprise anyone, it's grown. It didn't help that Lucifer (the god) decided he wanted me to write his story too, because he wants more people to know of him, and then other people started leaving prompts for other deities, including Papa Legba (who is technically not a deity, but still wants me to write for him). I'll be the first to admit that these are my versions... or their versions... I'm not entirely sure, so they might not be anything like the deity (or demon, in the case of Lucifer) that you might work with. All I know is that I'm pretty much writing what they want me to write.
As a pagan myself I wanted to write about paganism, so I have a Pagan collection. It started with Anna, who lost her memory and chose another name, but is actually a walk-in in someone else's body, and that led to me writing about her brother, her circle, her friends, and how this has affected her. What it's like to be thought of as another person when you know you aren't them. Fortunately she does have friends who have accepted her and she's beginning to work out where she wants to be going with her life, now that she's on Earth. This includes whether she wants to follow her bodies' religion - Paganism (of some form - Charlotte, who died before Anna took over her body, was pretty eclectic in her practice).
I'm a lover of post-apocalyptic fiction and I wanted to see what would happen if the world was left populated, almost entirely, by children and teenagers. So I gave all the adults an injection that killed them (it was a contraceptive meant to work on both genders, because the World Government was worried about population growth). Now I write stories in this world to see how much things have changes, although this is one of the few where almost all the stories start at the beginning and work on from there. It makes sense, really, because I have no idea what's going to happen in the future - it's as though I'm getting it in timeline order from whichever character chose me to write their story.
Then I have the Inquisition collection, because I wanted to know what the world would be like if there was still an Inquisition. At the moment there aren't very many stories for this one, as I'm still working it out, but one thing I've come to realise is that it isn't an Inquisition run by the religious, but the anti-religious. Someone who believes in something, whether they're Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Pagan, or any of the other myriad religions, has to keep who they are secret, otherwise the Inquisition will come for them. At the moment my focus in on the Pagans, as I know most about it, but now that I know who the Inquisition are I can switch to other religions if it feels right.
My final collection is the Afterlife collection. This does connect, occasionally, with the Deities' World collection, but the focus is one the spirits of the dead and the angels. I'll be honest, when I started writing this I wasn't planning on adding angels to the mix, and then it happened, so I now know that my angels have no idea why they exist, which makes for some interesting conversations. The first character I started writing was Caitlyn, but I've found that one of the favourite characters is Richard, who is the current Death, and I'm glad, because writing about him, and his relationships is fascinating.
