The Cure2 is now finished and has gone onto Mysti. It's slash Fugitive, NC17 to the max, and it's over at agentwithstyle.com. I know it was called "Wild Horses", but the title didn't fit after I rewrote part of it. I thought the Cure2 was less imaginative but, on the whole, better for the finished thing.

Next up is my Brokeback Mountain novel I'm working on. Right now we're calling it "A Real Good Life" which is the final title I think it'll take. Next up after that is one I've already started (but I HAD to go see that movie) -- a Clex novel I'm calling "By the Awful Grace of God" so far. We'll see what it turns into down the road.

I've just noticed this phenomenon about which I'm a-gonna bitch, though I hear it has been around some time. It just astounds me, but then I'm a gullible little fat girl.

There is a fan writer (more than one, I'm told) who has obviously created eighty-five different IDs and is using them all to make herself sound like she's the cat's pajamas. Now I considered the fact that she writes in a very, very popular fandom. I know she gets a lot of readers, but quite frankly, there are writers whose work I enjoy as much or more who *maybe* get twenty or thirty reviews over a couple of years. This individual has somehow garnered 85 since early December? It can't be done, I don't care how wide a base you have, even if you're Shakespeare and -- believe me -- she's not.

What is the purpose of doing something like this? Any suggestions? Is her ego so threadbare she has to prop herself up to that degree? Does she really want to persuade people by some method other than her writing that she's better than she is? Does she really think anything but working on her writing will do that? I've never known anyone who could be bullied into liking something.

It seems a fairly pointless, not to mention pathetic and obvious, exercise. I hope the girl reads this and realizes that everyone with any fantime is onto her. Hon, get some help. Please.