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And it’s out! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Sight-Witchs-Apprentice-Book-ebook/dp/B07DH6TFMF NineStar Press: https://ninestarpress.com/product/ghosts-sight/ (Download offers both ePub and mobi formats)

Link for above: Songs of Regret by RavieSnake

We have a few authors using Blackthorn as a pen name. but none of them have posted stories. The story ID isn’t showing up in my records, either, so my best guess here is that the author themselves removed the story. I’m sorry I couldn’t find anything more definitive.

Do you have the url for the story? I can try to find out what happened, but checking by title doesn’t show any staff action in connection with that story.

Was there someone in particular you were looking to find? I’ve been moderating here for the past 7 years. I’ve seen people come and go, largely based on how their real life has changed. Maybe they’ve graduated from college or university, and don’t have as much free time for writing fan fiction. Some people have moved on to being published. Some have returned after a break. AFF, like any other Internet site, is in a constant state of evolution and that reflects the way our membership is always evolving. There’s still a good many original members around, but we’ve also gotten some amazing new members who are well worth discovering.

One editor told me I write romance with a body count. I suppose if I was writing detective romances, that might be good, but, sadly, I just like killing off characters.

I’ve killed off characters often, despite how attached I get to them. It’s often literally painful for me, but if it’s necessary for the story, I’m ruthless about it. I take Stephen King’s advice: “kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.” (Which is, of course, Mr. King quoting William Faulkner: “In writing, you must kill all your darlings” who was in turn quoting Arthur Quiller-Couch: “If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: ‘Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.” Sort of a stretch to interpret that as killing off one’s characters, but there we are. )

There is a thread in the forums to request a beta reader, or to offer your services as a beta reader. The archive itself doesn’t have that sort of function.

This does not actually mean you can post entire chapters here in the forums looking for feedback. I know you haven’t, but we’ve had people do that, and I thought I’d just throw that out as well.

I have checked the stories posted by this member. There is exactly 1 story out of 38 which has the wrong placement, and I have corrected it, which should, I trust, answer your report.

My admin has weighed in on the side of keeping them in the Slash category, since the gender bender tag will serve as warning that one or more characters will present as the opposite gender. As she pointed out, it’s a logistical nightmare to go through the entire subdomain, and move stories based on genderbent character pairings, and looking at it from that perspective, I agree. ::shudders at the thought of reviewing thousands of stories::

It looks to me that many of them involve gender-bending, so the pairing might still be Harry/Draco, but one of the two will be a female version. Now, here’s the question: are gender-bender stories located under the actual gender of the character, or the assumed gender of the character? I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not sure, even after as long as I’ve been moderating here, but my inclination is to think they’d belong under the assumed gender. I’m going to ask among my fellow mods and admins, and if we all come to a consensus that these belong in the Het category, we’ll move them.

As someone who’s moderated here at AFF for the past seven years, I have to say the quality of fiction posted to the Naruto subdomain has shown a recent trend into cuckold stories, so much so that we had to revive that tag. There were some amazing stories when I first began to moderate here, and although I’m not an anime/manga fan in general, there were more than a few stories which were highly creative and managed not to bash any character. Prism0467’s work comes to mind, in particular. I wonder why authors with a desire to write fiction with strong plots and minimal fetishes don’t find a welcome in the subdomain any longer?

We don’t have an update notification feature at this point in time. Some authors maintain mailing lists for update notifications, or give them via Twitter or Facebook. If so, it’s generally stated in the story by the author. Alternatively, you can add a story to your Currently Reading section on your archive profile. Our FAQ here explains how to do that. It gives you a quick link to a story, and you can see the last time it was updated on that page as well. You can also see if the author has a “Promote a Story” thread, and follow that thread, with email notifications enabled.

Unfortunately, oraldeviant removed all stories from the Internet.

The entire Aimless Babble section, I believe, is limited to forum members. The forums were originally created as a venue for authors to talk and share ideas, so a lot of the sections are limited to forum members. Non-members can create threads in the Searching for a Fic and Challenges/Requests subsections. Obviously, all of the help-type sections are also open to non-members. In the Fan Fiction section, it will state right at the bottom of the sub-section whether or not registration is required.

If I’m not mistaken, that thread requires forum registration to post.

Thank you! I am in love with the cover art, really, and I love working with NineStar Press. Everyone’s been very professional and completely supportive, and I feel like I have my feet back under me again, at long last.

I am very, very excited about the upcoming republication of Ghost’s Sight, the first book in the Witch’s Apprentice series. NineStar Press has been good enough to give me a new home, and I couldn’t be happier. The book is now available for pre-order at the NineStar website, and I’ll add links for third party sites as soon as the book is released. There’s some new material, and a fabulous new cover, so take a peek!

And then, once you think you have the basics of editing yourself down, the Chicago Manual of Style releases a new edition and you find yourself relearning the correct use of commas.

I haven’t had any reports of slow loads the past couple of days. I was having an issue myself two weeks ago, but the most recent update to Windows 10 seems to have fixed that issue for me, at least. Generally, what I do when things seem a bit less responsive than usual is to clear my browser’s cache and history. Sometimes that can speed things up. It might also be an issue with the cookie strings AFF sets. They can become corrupted over time, and deleting them allows the site to set new cookies. I’m not sure either of those fixes will help, but they won’t hurt anything, either.

I really, REALLY hate having to repeat this over and over, but it seems for a fiction archive, no one reads… At the top of this thread, we have a notice: Do not use our forums to ask for hard copies, either.

madcow removed their work from the Internet altogether. Sorry about that!

The author has removed the story everywhere on the Internet that they had posted it, and asked that copies not be circulated.