Read the Table
of Contents below.
If you want to be notified when this anthology is published, please
join the SIMEGEN Group on facebook, or see Jacqueline Lichtenberg on
Amazon
Here's a sample of the cover art which will of course render much
better in the published version
This anthology presents authors who have honed their
craft writing fan fiction for fans of Forever Knight, Buffy
The Vampire Slayer, Angel,White Collar, and similar television shows.
Each has a personal following in those fandoms, and many have either a
professional writing background which they have brought to their fan
fiction or have founded a professional writing career on skills learned
writing fan fiction.
The editors of this anthology have extensive fan
fiction writing backgrounds.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg has a bibliography of hardcover
and mass market sf/f, plus nonfiction such as Star Trek Lives!Jean Lorrah, sometime collaborator with Jacqueline Lichtenberg, is
author of the famous Night of the Twin Moons fanzines, and several Best
Selling Star Trek Novels from Pocket Books in addition to a broad
selection of original works.
All thanks to the training ground called fan
fiction. So thank you fan fiction, I wouldn't be here without you. I
currently have three books available, Pale Fire, a science fiction
romance, Far From Montana, a contemporary suspense romance, and Puca, a
fantasy romance. All are available on Kindle.
200 years after being turned, Sheldon is
still haunted by his first kill, his lover who lightened the curse of his
blood so that true love could make him human again. Now he meets her
granddaughter.
Anne Phyllis Pinzow
Sunrise Decision
Short Story
Anne Phyllis Pinzow is an award winning
journalist and and has won awards as a fan fiction writer under a
different byline.
A work-a-day newspaper reporter makes a
decision that may well change the world of darkness forever.
Robyn Hugo McIntyre The Face On The Coin
Thursday nights, 8pm, NBC. For three years, I
knew exactly where I would be at that time - watching Star Trek. ...
I first recognized myself in the writings of others. Now I hope that
others will find themselves in what I write.
The ghost of a private eye meets the ghost of
a Vampire in the 1950's complicated by Magic and Time Travel
Rusty Goode
Take My Breath Away
Novelette
The Deepening.com, an on-line fiction magazine has published four of her
short stories under the names Rusty Goode and Beatrice Moore. Rusty has
just put the final touches on her urban fantasy novel Raptor. Look for her
soon to be published shorts stories; Reptile Dysfunction and Warm Hands,
Cold Heart on Amazon.com. Rusty chose this image for her story.
Serious drama of a young woman beset with a
fatal disease seeking a real vampire among the notorious vampire dives and
bars of the big city.
Laura Wise
Thin White Duke In Sneakers
Novelette
Laura describes trying her hand at fanfic as
giving her a chance to find out what she loved to write as well as read:
plot, magic, mystery, comedy, romance. Over the last several years, it has
become more than a simple exercise, allowing her to share her beginning
work with an appreciative, if sometimes critical, audience. Fanfic lets
her re-imagine what she already loves, and it has led her to building her
own worlds on her own terms.
Humorous love story between a human and a
vampire.
Roberta Rogow
Uncle Dmitri
Short Story
Roberta Rogow got her start as a published
author in Star Trek Fanzines in the mid-1970's. Since then, she has
contributed to the Merovingen Nights "Shared Universe' anthologies, edited
by C. J. Cherryh,written Sherlock Holmes pastich stories for anthologies
edited by Marvin Kaye; and appeared in anthologies sponsored by chapters
of Sisters In Crime.
Rollicking story of a modern family
connection who is an elderly vampire with a sense of responsibility.
Nan Dibble
Farmer
Novelette
As
you may have heard, Nan Dibble is deceased. We have permission from her estate to
publish this story.
Her five book sci-fi series, The
Rule of One, was internationally published. Her book on the
nuts-and-bolts of fiction writing, Plot, has sold over a million
copies worldwide, in six languages. Both were written under her former
pseudonym, Ansen Dibell
Dark horror tale of the far-far future where
civilization has collapsed -- almost.
Sale Season Ellie Flemming
Novelette
Ellie has written a wide range of fiction
from broad comedy through action-adventure and romance to tragedy in a
variety of fictional worlds. Ellie has been itching to build onto that
experience to allow her own characters to live and breathe, so she has
decided to do exactly that.
European tale of art galleries, intrigue,
history and vampire romance.
Elsa Frohman
They Shall Take Up Serpents
Short Story
Elsa Frohman is a copy editor for a daily
newspaper in Michigan. She is
the author (under the pseudonym Eleanor Frost) of two published novels,
and under her own name almost too many fan fictions to count. Her Spike
stories can be found at:
http://www.spikedreams.com/. When she's not writing, she enjoys
cooking, fiber arts and being trained by her two
dogs, Floyd and Ollie.
A predatory Revivalist Preacher who rooks
people out of their money. A Good Vampire naming himself Ezekiel.
A cage full of venomnous snakes. An overwhelming need for justice.
Novelette: at least 7,500 words but less
than 17,500 words.
Novella: at least 17,500 words but less than
40,000 words.
Novel: 40,000 words or more. At the author's
request, a novella-length work published individually, rather than as
part of a collection or an anthology, shall appear in the novel
category.
For examples of Jacqueline Lichtenberg's own vampire
works see her current vampire
novels, and some of her short stories and
works-in-progress. And read her article on Buffy The Vampire
Slayer in Seven Seasons
of Buffy.