Lauren's Tales

…when someone writes fanfic based on your fiction.

This was a nice change from the usual Google Alert, which thinks I need to know about women hiding bombs under their burkas.

This alert was about a Yuletide Fanfic that someone wrote based on Mate. I’d never heard of this fanfic custom, so Cecilia Tan explained thusly:

It’s basically a humongous Secret Santa fest run annually on livejournal. Say you are a fan of various things. You put up a “Dear Santa” request like “I would like a fanfic written for me in either the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, or Star Trek universes.” (I think you have to list at least three.) Then a fanfic writer becomes your secret santa and writes something to fit the requested spec, picking one of the fandoms listed.

You can see the resulting story here. For me it was a fascinating look at how people see my writing.

As always, you can buy the original collection in various places.