Updates of 2012
December 24th Updates
Sorry for the lack
of updates this month! Hopefully I’m
making up for it today. First up, we
have a special new episode of “00Carter” up in its entirety: A 00Carter Christmas! Enjoy!
Secondly, Chapter 29 of Ritz’s “The Other Side of Nick Carter” is
up! Finally, voting has begun in the
Felix Awards! Head on over to Absolute Chaos to vote!
Merry Christmas!
November 21st Updates
I have a new, fun,
festive holiday story for you, inspired by the music video for the Boys’ new
song, “It’s Christmas Time Again.” The
story is called “The Gift of the Pandaskunk,” and it is very silly. Chapter 28 of Ritz’s “The Other Side of Nick
Carter” is up as well. Enjoy!
November 4th Updates
Chapter 102 of
“Song for the Undead” is up, as well as Chapters 12-14 of Kimberly’s “Lose It
All.” Enjoy the updates!
October 31st Updates
Sorry for the
delay in updates, but just in time for Halloween, Chapter 101 of “Song for the
Undead” is up! Chapters 9-11 of
Kimberly’s “Lose It All” have been posted as well. Also, the nomination period has begun for
this year’s Felix Awards, hosted by Absolute Chaos. Head on over to nominate your favorite stories on AC!
September 16th Updates
I’m hosting a new
story, “Lose It All” by Kimberly. It’s
centered around Brian, but features the rest of the group as well, especially
Nick. It’s drama/angst and fits the
theme of this site VERY well. The first
eight chapters are up, so check it out in the Hosted section! I’ve also updated the Awards page – thanks so
much for your votes in the Pain is Just Pleasure Awards!
August 31st Updates
The last chapter,
Chapter 25, of “Secrets of the Heart” has been posted! Thanks so much to those of you who gave this
story a chance and stuck with it – it had a rough start, but I’m really glad I
finally got into a groove with it this summer and finished it. I am back to school now, so don’t expect
updates on much of anything except “Song for the Undead” for awhile – but I
hope to go back to either “Guilty Roads” or my Harry Potter crossover next. Thanks for reading!
August 30th Updates
Chapter 24 of
“Secrets of the Heart” is up!
August 29th Updates
Chapter 23 of
“Secrets of the Heart” is up!
August 28th Updates
Chapter 22 of
“Secrets of the Heart” is up!
August 27th Updates
Chapter 21 of
“Secrets of the Heart” is up!
Also, thanks for
your votes in the Backstreet Trash Awards!
I don’t think of myself as a romance writer, so it was a fun surprise to
come in first or second (after the hostesses who started these awards to honor
themselves, of course) in several categories!
I’ve updated the Awards page.
August 26th Updates
Chapter 20 of
“Secrets of the Heart” is up. It’s
winding down to the end now, and I hope you enjoy the twists and turns to come
in the last five chapters!
Also, voting has
begun in The Backstreet Trash Awards! If
you haven’t voted yet, please go to http://my-confession.net/awards/vote and
cast your votes now! Don’t wait; voting
ends at midnight tonight! I am nominated
in several categories; look for stories written by RokofAges75 or check out my
nominations here: http://www.dreamers-sanctuary.com/nominations.html I’m also endorsing stories written by Rose,
Mare, and starbeamz (Sarah). You may vote for two stories per
category. Thanks for your support of the
authors from DS!
August 19th Updates
Chapter 19 of
“Secrets of the Heart” is up – enjoy!
August 14th Updates
Chapter 18 of
“Secrets of the Heart” is up! I’ve
updated the nominations page with my nominations at the Pain is Just Pleasure
Awards, honoring all forms of torture in BSB fanfic LOL. Check them out here: http://painisjustpleasureawards.wordpress.com/ Nominate your favorite angst or horror fics if they’re not already there! The nominating period runs until the end of
the month, and voting will start after that.
August 9th Updates
Chapter 17 of
“Secrets of the Heart” is up, as well as Death #61 in “1000 Ways to Kill Nick
Carter,” written by Tracy. Some of my
stories have been nominated in The Backstreet Trash Awards, honoring romance fics. Check out the
nominations page or visit the awards site at http://my-confession.net/awards. If you’d like to nominate a favorite romance,
the nominating period runs until August 19th, and voting will start
sometime after that.
August 5th Updates
Chapter 16 of
“Secrets of the Heart” is up, as well as Death #60 in “1000 Ways to Kill Nick
Carter,” written by yours truly! I also
have a new affiliate, Climbing the Walls, which is a new fanfic
site featuring BSB and One Direction stories written by my friend Steph. Check it out!
http://climbing-the-walls.net/
July 26th Updates
Chapter
15 of “Secrets of the Heart” is up! This
is a pivotal chapter, so I hope you enjoy it and would appreciate hearing any
thoughts you want to share if you’re reading!
July 22nd Updates
Chapter
14 of “Secrets of the Heart” is up, and Kills #21-22 have been added to
“Revenge of the Slaughtered.” Enjoy the
updates!
July 17th Updates
Two
new chapters have been added to the round robin “Revenge of the Slaughtered,”
which you can find under My Stories, or here is a direct link: http://www.dreamers-sanctuary.com/rots.html. Kill #19 and Kill #20 are new, written by
Rose and me, respectively. Enjoy, and
don’t forget, you can contribute a kill of your own or volunteer to be one of
Nick’s victims on Absolute Chaos!
July 15th Updates
Chapter
100 of “Song for the Undead” is up, as well as Chapter 13 of “Secrets of the
Heart,” which is officially to the halfway point now – hope you’re enjoying!
July 8th Updates
Chapter
12 of “Secrets of the Heart” is up, as well as Chapter 27 of Ritz’s “The Other
Side of Nick Carter.” Enjoy!
July 6th Updates
Chapter
11 of “Secrets of the Heart” is up – enjoy!
July 4th Updates
Chapter
10 of “Secrets of the Heart” is up, as well as Chapters 25-26 of Ritz’s “The
Other Side of Nick Carter.”
Happy
Independence Day to my American visitors, and a belated happy Canada Day to my
Canadian ones!
June 29th Updates
Chapter 9 of
“Secrets of the Heart” is up! Thanks to
everyone who read the last update and gave feedback, especially those who were
reading the story for the first time. I
appreciate it!
I also did some
housekeeping on the My Stories page and moved another batch of my old stories
(almost everything pre-Broken) to The
Vault. So if you’re looking
for a particular story and can’t find it, check there.
June 25th Updates
Chapter 8 of
“Secrets of the Heart” has been posted! For
those who don’t remember this story, I started it back in 2008 as a side
project and haven’t updated it in about two years. My track record on updating it has been
HORRIBLE, I know, but I’m promoting it to my main story with the goal of
finishing it this year (hopefully this summer).
It’s obviously not very far along yet, but it’s not going to be a long
story, only about 25 chapters total. I
have a couple more chapters ready to post later this week and will hopefully be
able to keep writing on this one and updating it regularly until it’s
done. I know I say that with every
story, but I’m really trying to clear my plate, one story at a time, and this
is the most likely to be finished first.
After that, I will go back to Guilty Roads – I know that is the one
everyone wishes I would update! But give
“Secrets” a chance, if you haven’t already, and let me know what you
think! I know some of you will probably
have to reread to refresh your memory – sorry again for being such a flake, but
thanks for your patience! Here’s a
direct link to the story: http://www.dreamers-sanctuary.com/soth.html
June 7th Updates
As
always, I apologize for the delay in updates!
The end of the school year is always crazy busy, so I basically didn’t
write anything during the month of May.
Now that summer is here, though, I’ll hopefully be writing a lot more on
any or all of my stories! To start off,
Chapters 98 and 99 of “Song for the Undead” are up. Enjoy!
April 21st Updates
I’m
back with yet another new story! I’ve
been holding onto this one for a couple of weeks, debating on whether or not I
should post it, since I have so many other unfinished stories. But the collaborations are outside my control
right now (a.k.a. it’s not my turn to write on any of them), and as much as I
wish I could get some momentum going on “Guilty Roads” or “Secrets of the
Heart,” it hasn’t happened yet. I had
just been jumping around from story to story since finishing “Curtain Call” and
not getting much written on any of them, until spring break two weeks ago, when
I wrote the two April Fool’s stories and then finally settled into this new
one. I actually started this story last
summer, but only really started making progress on it over break. I’m having a lot of fun writing it so far,
and I finally decided it would be better to start posting it than not updating
at all. So, here goes!
The
story is called “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Backstreet Boy,” and it’s my
first crossover that’s not an *NSync joke.
In fact, it’s not a joke at all (and not another April Fool’s story, I
promise!). It’s not even a parody, although
it reads like one in the beginning. It’s
a legitimate crossover between my two favorite fandoms,
Backstreet Boys and Harry Potter. It’s a
little like “00Carter” in that it’s tongue-in-cheek, not meant to be taken
super seriously, but still a real story.
I hope it will be a fun read for anyone who likes both BSB and HP! It’s my first time writing in another fandom
in a LONG time; I did make a couple of attempts at Harry Potter fanfic ten
years ago, but neither of them got further than a couple of chapters. I’m already on Chapter 7 of this story, so I
have high hopes that it will turn out better!
Like I said, I’m having a blast writing it, and I hope that you’ll enjoy
it! The first three chapters are online
for you to check out: http://www.dreamers-sanctuary.com/hpbsb.html If you give it a try, please let me know what
you think!
April 5th Updates
In
case it wasn’t obvious (or in case you didn’t click far enough to figure it
out), the story I posted on Sunday was an April Fool’s joke. (And if didn’t see it and want to check it
out now, it’s linked in the About the Site section.) But I do have a new story for you today, for
real. It’s a short story that I wrote
for the April challenge at Absolute Chaos.
In honor of April Fool’s Day, the challenge was to pick out an
over-the-top “foolish” idea from a list Mare made up and write it in a way that
makes it seem believable. I went with
“The Backstreet Boys battle killer monkeys from outer space” idea, and the
result is my new short story, “Hybrid.”
Check it out! http://www.dreamers-sanctuary.com/hybrid.html
April 1st
Updates
I apologize for the lack of updates last month! March is always a busy month for me, and
aside from not having time, I haven’t had much inspiration to write
either. I finally realized I should stop
trying to force myself to work on stories I don’t really care about, stop
pushing myself to write outside the box, and just stick to what I’m good
at: Nick cancer stories. Those tend to be my best, most successful
stories, so I think I’m just going to write those from now on. I’ll keep going until I’ve given Nick every
type of cancer there is.
That said, I’m debuting a brand new Nick cancer story today! It’s called “Half the Man I Used to Be,” and
Chapters 1 and 2 are up. It can be found
on the My Stories page or on a new page I’ve created just for all my Nick
cancer stories, which I’m putting together as a series called The Cancer Carter
Chronicles. Check it out here: http://www.dreamers-sanctuary.com/cccmain.html I hope you enjoy the new story! Be sure to let me know what you think!
February 26th
Updates
Rose
and I have been productive this week – Chapters 95-97 of “Song for the Undead”
are up! Enjoy!
February 20th
Updates
Sorry
it’s been over a month since the last update!
I have to admit, I haven’t been writing much of anything lately. Hopefully that will change soon. In the meantime, “Song for the Undead” has
been updated with Chapter 94, courtesy of Rose.
Rose’s story “Divine Intervention” is also updated with Chapter 6, and Ritz’s
“The Other Side of Nick Carter” is updated with Chapters 19-24. Enjoy!
Thanks
so much to those of you who voted for me in the Felix Awards over on Absolute
Chaos! I won Best Drama/Angst Author and
Best Thriller/Suspense Author, “Curtain Call” won for Best Drama/Angst Story,
and “Watch Me as I Bleed” won for Best Short Story! “Song for the Undead” also took runner-up for
Best Thriller/Suspense Story, “00Carter” got runner-up for Best Collaboration,
and Rose and I were runner-up for Best Collaborating Authors! Thanks again for your votes!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRIAN!!!
January 16th
Updates
As
you can see, the site has been revamped!
I really wanted to go “back to basics” with a simple, light-colored
layout that would be easier to read stories on, since that’s the whole purpose
of this website. I’m still working on
getting all of the hosted stories updated, but everything else should be in
working order. If you click onto any
pages that still have the old colors and don’t look right, try refreshing or
right clicking and selecting Reload Frame. Depending on your browser and cookies,
it may not have loaded the newest version of the page. Please let me know if you encounter any
broken links or pages that still don’t look right after
refreshing/reloading. I hope you enjoy
reading on the new layout!
January 3rd Updates
New year, new chapters on old stories! Chapter 11 of “Guilty Roads” has been
posted! Hopefully this is a good sign
that I’ll be able to update this story a little more regularly now. That’s my intention, at least. For those who have been wanting an update on this
one, I hope you enjoy the new chapter!
Also, I’ve added the story “Survivor” to my new eFic page, for anyone who wants to download it. Susan’s story “Scared of Reality” will be
coming soon!
Finally, don’t forget, there are just five more days left to
vote for the 2011 Felix Awards, so if you haven't voted yet, click here to do so. Also, those who HAVE voted, click the link above
and make sure that you clicked "Finish" at the end of the survey to
actually submit your votes. Otherwise, they won't count. If you did, you should
just see a message that says "You already responded to this survey."
If you forgot to hit Finish, it should take you back to the last page of the
survey, where you can click Finish to send in your answers. According to the mods
at AC, a lot of people are forgetting to hit finish, so please double check –
thanks! :)
January 2nd Updates
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I’m
back with a story update and a brand new feature for the site. Now that we’re in the year of the zombie
apocalypse, with Infernal Friday approaching soon, “Song for the Undead” has
been updated with Chapter 93.
Also, I got a Kindle Fire for Christmas and decided it
would be fun to read fanfic on it, so I created a new section of the site for eFics – fan fiction in e-book format that you can download
and send to your e-reader. Check out
this page at http://www.dreamers-sanctuary.com/efics. You can also access it from the Stories
menu. Right now, I’m only converting
finished novels of my own and older, finished stories by authors who are no
longer writing fanfic. If you have any
requests for other stories of mine (finished only) that you’d like to see
converted, just let me know, and I’ll be happy to do it. I hope to add more old favorites in the
coming days and weeks as well. If you’re
interested in converting your own stories, check out the link at the bottom of
that page for the program I use.
In the coming new year, my first priority, fanfic-wise, is
finishing “Song for the Undead” with Rose.
My second priority is getting back into “Guilty Roads,” which was put on
the back burner while I concentrated on “Curtain Call.” Now that that’s done, I can focus on it
more. It’s a complicated story line, and
it was just too tough to stay on top of it with so many other stories in the
works. I don’t plan to start anything
new until I finish some of the old, so unless I’m hit with a really inspired
idea, expect new updates on some older stories this year. As always, thanks for sticking with me and
coming to the site. I can’t believe it’s
been 12 years!
I wish you all a happy and healthy 2012!
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