Okay, own up - who stole the last two months? I felt an update was required just to let everyone know I am still alive and still active (hmm, that conjures up unpleasant images!). I'm not actually writing much just at the moment, but I'm thinking about it! Does that count? I have the third part of Dark Domain to finish and I'm also writing a whole new season of Firefly - a slash one. I'm also writing a new Brokeback Mountain. No pressure there then....

I'm still working on the cloning thing so I can send someone else out to work and I can sit and write. No success yet I'm afraid. So, I'll just give myself a stern talking to and knuckle down to some work!

Just a quick note to wish you all a very Happy Christmas, and to thank you all for the wonderful feedback I've received throughout the year! I have lots of ideas for stories for '05, and I'm working on one, Parallels, now. I'm also giving the site a facelift on some of the pages I decided were very 04! In addition, Cerisaye and I are working hard with our reviews of novels and films. I really do recommend you give some of the wonderful books we've reviewed a go. It doesn't matter how bad RL gets when you have a book!

As a final note, a huge, huge thanks to my wonderful Betas, Adsum and Betagoddess, who have had to read SO many words this year from me. They really do make all the difference to the final product you see. Also a huge debt of thanks goes to Ghostsforge and Kat, who provide me with most of my original images for manipulation. Again, I couldn't do this site without them.

May 05 be peaceful for all of us.

Reality Check went up on the site tonight. All my thanks to my betas, Adsum and Betagoddess, who turned 26 chapters around in a couple of days, gave lovely fb and did a brilliant job!

Let's hope that 2005 sees a little more tolerance for alternative views on life. I can't help but agree with this guy:
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enjoy....

Some general news from the site. We've been adding to our reviews for books recently with some absolutely wonderful gay novels. If you're looking for a Christmas pressent for someone, do check these out. We're selling our collection in a new bookshop on the site. Do go there and get some of these books and movies from us. We'll charge only exact postage, and we don't aim to make a profit, only try and recoup some of the outlay!

The next story that will go up on the site is called Reality Check, and I'm hoping it will be up for Christmas.

Someone said recently that it was a shame I wasn't updating my site anymore! Eeks! I am, I just tend to save this page for updates on stories, or I'd be putting a new page up every day. So, just to let you know all the Love That Dares gossip:
My new fic "Paths" is with my Beta somewhere between KY and Seattle, as she's moving house and has taken it with her for the road trip. I'm hoping it will be up sometime next week.
The book reviews have a new look, and we've started to get all our summer reading up, there are some great books there, do check them out (I highly recommend the Dakota Taylor series).
My next fic after "Paths" is called "The Past Tense of Loving" and is well on the way.
Thanks to Ghostsforge, who sent me some amazing pictures of David, I've got lots of new manips coming up. The first for September went up today.
I've given a new look to the DVD reviews page, too, and there are some great movies being reviewed there (and some incredibly duff ones)
Poor Rusty Close has a strained wrist (he won't admit what caused it, but I have my suspicions). It's not stopped him watching porn for your enlightenment, but he claims he can't type any reviews. Hmm. I'd give him a hard time about it, but he'd only enjoy it too much.

The new site Kinnetic has stalled somewhat as I can't find a reliable supplier of Qaf US edition DVDs in region 2. The ones I got had two faulty discs and the supplier has been incredibly unhelpful.

That's all the news for September.

Lots of new things on the site. My new Spike/Angel story, Intimate Strangers, is all up tonight. There are lots of new book reviews - do check them out; there are some amazingly good published gay novels out there.

I've started a new site, Kinnetic, of DVD screen caps from Queer As Folk--all caps of Brian Kinney.