I'm really pleased to have won an assortment of awards during the 2008 Terra Firma Fan Fic Awards. This year's awards covered fic posted at Terra Firma from July 1, 2007 through July 9, 2008. I had ten stories place in eleven categories (one Third, seven Second, and three First Place), and also came in third in the Best Author caterory. I'm especially thrilled to have won a First Place for Best Original Character for Kristin, the young space-struck mom who meets up with Aeryn and Chiana during a trip to Disneyland in It's a Small World After All. Kristen was just so alive to me, she really drove the story, and I'm tickled pink with the acknowledgement! I've listed the awards in the "Library" summaries and added banners to the stories in question if you're curious about the details!

It's an honor to know that people enjoy what I write; getting nominated or winning awards is icing on the cake. Thanks to everyone who takes part in these awards, and especially, thanks to those of you who keep on reading this stuff! You can view all the winners -- not just mine -- and follow links to read the stories here.

While I've been playing with the site today, I noticed that I've still got an announcement from last year about Farscape Webisodes! The webisodes are still in the works, though they were slowed down by the Writer's Strike last fall/winter. What we do know is that the story (10 short episodes, 3 to 6 minutes in length) will take up after the events of Peacekeeper Wars.

Adding to the fun, however, is that coming this fall from BOOM! Comics will be Farscape comic books! These will be written by Rockne O'Bannon, and Rock says they will not only tie into the Webisode stories, but they will count as "canon" -- Official Farscape stories! I'm really looking forward to these stories, both to see new adventures from some of my favorite characters, but also as inspiration for more stories of my own!

For anyone who might have been waiting, The Song Remains the Same: Coda has been posted over at Terra Firma. I'll get it over here in the next day or two when I have a little time (yesterday I had some technical issues with the web host, or I'd have done it then). It took quite a while, but I'm pretty pleased with the results. Feel free to leave a comment or two over at TF if you read it there!

ETA: The story is now posted here as well as at Terra Firma.

Still working on the sequel to The Song Remains the Same. It's coming along fairly well, and I have vague hopes of finishing it in the next week to ten days. I just took a break to write a story for the most rececent Starburst Challenge at Terra Firma. I just posted Still Checking here. Enjoy!

The muses just presented me with a little filler for PK Wars. Never look a gift horse and all that, even though as far as I can tell from the response on Terra Firma, there aren't a lot of readers for PKW filler.... I'm actually pretty pleased with how this came out. I was looking for a moment where John could share his joy in his new son with D'Argo, so beware.... Check out Out of the Frying Pan.... if you dare!

Yes, I've actually written something! It's just been an incredibly hectic month for me, with traveling on vacation and also for business. Sheesh! My mind has pretty much been a blank! Heck, I have a half-finished fic that I worked on for both the 21st and 23rd Starburst Challenges at Terra Firma and still haven't finished! But the latest challenge involved putting a member of the Farscape gang into a non-sf television show, and the muses kept showing me Amanda King trying to deal with Rygel, and I just couldn't resist! Close Encounters is the result! If you're not a Scarecrow and Mrs. King fan, this might not be as much fun, but it gave me giggles!

At this point I've got several unfinished fics to work on (the previously-mentioned challenge fic, and the "Chess Lady" fic I've mentioned before), as well as a short PKWars filler that's percolating. I'm slower than I used to be, but I'm still writing.

The newest adventure of the Sun-Crichton clan is posted at last! Getting Away from it All (Ain't What it's Cracked Up to Be) takes up shortly after Chiana's rather traumatic visit. The story begins when the garda question Aeryn (yet again) about her part in the deaths of several members of the Nebari cleansing squad in Fun and Games, and John decides the family needs a little downtime together to decompress! I hope you enjoy it! It's on the long side, for me, about 30 pages (nearly 14,000 words).

Coming shortly, I hope, is the little Rygel story I mentioned in my last update.

The Sci Fi Channel announced Sunday that they had signed a deal with The Jim Henson Company to bring back Farscape for 10 webisodes, to be available through SCIFI.com. Few details are currently available (apparently the deal was just recently concluded), but the episodes will be produced by the Jim Henson Company and RHI Enterprises, with Brian Henson and Robert Halmi, Jr. as executive producers. The Sci Fi rep said that the webisodes would "revive and expand the beloved Farscape universe," and that some of the original cast would be involved. Obviously, this could be anything from 3-minute snippets to longer-length episodes. I don't care WHAT they are, they're new Farscape! To quote a friend of mine, "Even if they're three-minute episodes with a sheyang and a skreeth, it's new Farscape!!!" It'll give me a new universe to let John and Aeryn play in! Hell, yeah!!!

You may or may not have noticed I'm not always consistent in whether I capitalize terms like "Sebacean" or "Scarran." It's because I'm really of two minds about doing it. Generally, the names of alien species are capitalized in science fiction, I suppose to emphasize that they are, well, alien. But we don't capitalize "human." So, sometimes I think it's better not to capitalize similar terms, except when they refer to a government. And other times I think, "Well, they do capitalize them in the scripts and the Illustrated Companion books," and go ahead and do it. Please forgive the confusion -- and I do try to at least be consistent within an individual story!

I just had to say thank you to Imloco2 for helping me come up with the very cool story icons I'm using for the Fallout series stories! Accompanying this announcement is Merry, the youngest of the Sun Crichton children in the Fallout universe, and you can see her siblings Livvy and TJ also by taking a look here. Aren't they perfect? Loco did most of the work, I just said, "Yes! That's it!" Thanks, Loco!!!

And by the way, look for a seventh Fallout story, featuring Livvy on earth, probably by the end of February!

As you know, I've been slowly adding icons/pictures to this site. Since the Family Ties series is the main one I have going right now, I especially wanted an icon, a "logo," if you will, to represent this series. Chiana's young son Pippin (being raised by John and Aeryn at the moment) has pretty well taken over many of the stories, and I thought he'd make the perfect representative for the series. As he is an original character, I knew I needed an artist to bring him to life. The very first person that came to mind was ScorpSik, because I knew she'd be able to do the imp justice. I'm so thrilled she agreed to tackle the job -- Isn't he just perfect? I smile every time I look at him! He even looks like Chiana!

Thanks so much, ScorpSik, you have my undying thanks!

I wanted an "icon" to represent parts 1 and 2 of Moving Forward, and I wanted something to do with the "TO BE CONTINUED" that we got at the end of Bad Timing. I couldn't find any screen caps I liked, and put up a plea on Terra Firma to see if some of the wonderful artists there had or could make something for me. Aurelie came up with this, and it suits perfectly! Thanks so much for helping me out!

Many, many thanks to the fantastic Scorpy808 for the design work on this site! I totally reached the limits of my design abilities with my old site, and she did such a great job on this, I'm totally jazzed! I've uploaded all of my Farscape fan fiction here as of today. I expect I'll be adjusting dates and possibly categories as well over the next few weeks, but the stories are all here. With the big push to get everything up, I probably made some screw-ups, so if you see anything -- odd categories, inconsistent setting/spoiler references, truncated text, anything -- let me know by using the "contact" link at the bottom of each page.

And, if by any chance there's a favorite story of yours that's missing, please let me know and I'll go looking. I did find in uploading that there was at least one story that never made it to the old site, and I hadn't realized it....

So, welcome to my archives! I hope you'll enjoy!