Inverarity is not a Scottish village

So, as those of you who laugh at my Poser art know, I suck at graphic design. For example, the art I had done for Alexandra Quick and the Stars Above is lovely, but the font I smeared across it for the title really does not work. I can tell by looking at it that it's poor design — I just don't have any design skills.



Compare with the cover that Pierre Raveneau (asahisuperdry on DeviantArt) made for me:



Much cleaner and crisper. It would be great for a PDF or print copy, though perhaps a little too dark for the small, high-contrast images favored nowadays by ebook publishers.

Now, check these out, sent to me by cactuscommando. They are perfect for ebook covers. If I were actually "publishing" the Alexandra Quick books, these would look great online.



Thanks, cactuscommando! When I get around to releasing a new version of the ebooks, I may use these as the ebook thumbnails, with the original cover art as title plates.

Finally, people have been asking me for years to do a sequel to Hogwarts Houses Divided, and I've been saying "Yeah, yeah, someday." Well, don't get your hopes up — "someday" is still lost in the fog of an uncertain future. However, tmonacelli has written his own fanfic of my fanfic, and you can find it here: Teddy Lupin and the Philosopher's Stone. Enjoy!

I have created nicely formatted PDFs of all my books, complete with Tables of Contents and illustrations.

These versions are also more up-to-date in terms of editing. I keep a master copy of all of my stories, where I still fix typos and other errors I might come across. I try to fix the posted versions as well, but since they are posted in chapter format on several different archives, the latest corrections may not be reflected in every online version.

Additionally, Michael Lutz has provided me with eBook versions of Hogwarts Houses Divided, optimized for reading on small screens.

(If I get that Sony PRS-600 I've been thinking about, I may start tinkering more with eBook formats for all of my stories.)

Download here. I'd like to request that rather than distributing copies of the files, you distribute the link instead. The reason for this is that I will continue to upload revisions, if I discover more errors (and if I receive more fan art to include as illustrations), so I'd prefer that people be directed to download the most current version.

Happy Holidays!

So, Alexandra Quick been nominated for a Quicksilver Quill Award for Best Original Female OC on Mugglenet Fan Fiction. (Also, Maximilian was nominated for Best Original Male OC, Alexandra Quick and the Lands Below was nominated for Best General Story, Hogwarts Houses Divided was nominated for Best Post-Hogwarts Story, and Christmas In Amber was nominated for Best Historical Story.)

Obviously, I'm quite flattered, especially since Alexandra Quick and the Thorn Circle won the QSQ for Best General Story last year. However, the purpose of this post is not to brag, but to solicit opinions. The moderator of the Best Original Female OC committee asked me to provide "the three chapters you feel best define and showcase Alexandra as a character."

Hmm. Well, I have my own ideas, but I'd like to know which chapters you readers might recommend as ones which "defined and showcased Alexandra as a character."

( QSQ stuff... )

If you haven't checked it out yet, the Quickipedia is a wonderful project started by Anthony J. Fuchs. Anthony has done a lot of work adding information from my books to this wiki. I didn't start it, nor do I do much in the way of editing, other than to add images and occasionally correct misinformation (and typos and grammatical errors, because I'm anal that way). As tempting as it would be to take it over and fill in lots of information from the author, I'd rather that it remain primarily the work of fans, else it may become too much a reflection of my own ego.

Anthony's been doing most of the work himself, so I'm sure he'd like it if more people would join him in adding and expanding on the articles there. (And, let's be honest, I get a kick out of it too. ;) )

I have added some images to character pages there (including Abraham Thorn, Absalom Thorn, Ben Journey, Diana Grimm, and Alexanda) and will probably add more in the future.

There is also a more general Harry Potter fan fiction wiki: the Harry Potter Fanon Wiki. Anyone can add information from any fan fiction story there. You'll find my Hogwarts Houses Divided characters there, among many others.

If you haven't checked it out yet, the Quickipedia is a wonderful project started by Anthony J. Fuchs. Anthony has done a lot of work adding information from my books to this wiki. I didn't start it, nor do I do much in the way of editing, other than to add images and occasionally correct misinformation (and typos and grammatical errors, because I'm anal that way). As tempting as it would be to take it over and fill in lots of information from the author, I'd rather that it remain primarily the work of fans, else it may become too much a reflection of my own ego.

Anthony's been doing most of the work himself, so I'm sure he'd like it if more people would join him in adding and expanding on the articles there. (And, let's be honest, I get a kick out of it too. ;) )

I have added some images to character pages there (including Abraham Thorn, Absalom Thorn, Ben Journey, Diana Grimm, and Alexanda) and will probably add more in the future.

There is also a more general Harry Potter fan fiction wiki: the Harry Potter Fanon Wiki. Anyone can add information from any fan fiction story there. You'll find my Hogwarts Houses Divided characters there, among many others.

I'm posting this so I (hopefully) won't have to answer a bunch of emails asking "When is Book Three going to be done?"

Don't get me wrong, I'm not offended by people asking. It's flattering, in fact. But if I keep you all updated here, then I can just answer emails with, "See my LiveJournal."

( Self-indulgent author's ramblings and a little bit of teaser... )

So, feel free to comment here, ask me questions, pick at my plot holes, or dissect my characters. (Just not my character. :ρ )

And for those of you who've been asking about a sequel to Hogwarts Houses Divided: yes, I've decided to do one. Right now, I'm thinking that I will probably write the HHD sequel between AQ3 and AQ4.

Squeeing would be unbecoming. But Mugglenet Fan Fiction has added Hogwarts Houses Divided to the list of stories being read as Audiofictions!

Chapter 1 available here, at Podcast Alley, or iTunes.

Squeeing would be unbecoming. But Mugglenet Fan Fiction has added Hogwarts Houses Divided to the list of stories being read as Audiofictions!

Chapter 1 available here, at Podcast Alley, or iTunes.

Hogwarts Houses Divided is a next generation Harry Potter fan fiction, starring Teddy Lupin in his first year at Hogwarts.



You can read it at:

• FanFiction.net
• MuggleNet Fan Fiction
• FictionAlley

Listen to Hogwarts Houses Divided on your iPod!

Hogwarts Houses Divided is now being broadcast as a Mugglenet Fan Fiction Audiofiction!

Chapter 1 available here, at Podcast Alley, or iTunes.