I am a former freelance journalist, most recently the TV editor for MediaSharx (a pop-culture online media magazine), and writing DVD reviews for AudioRevolution.com. I also occasionally contribute essays on the craft of writing in fandom to Fanfiction.net. In the past, I have written website reviews for Yahoo! Internet Life magazine, a feature for Titan's licensed Angel magazine, and features for the new defunct 11th Hour magazine, and Total TV website.
I also write fan fiction (also shortened to "fanfic")—stories and novels written by fans for fans, based on television series or films. Contrary to popular belief, fanfic was not born on-line, as many have claimed, but in fact stretches back to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes as well as the pulp magazines of the 1930s and 40s. Hell, if you want to push the limits of the definition, the evolution of Arthurian legend follows much the same patterns as fan writing. However, fan fiction as we have come to know it today came primarily out of genre media fandom in the 1970s. All of the my fan fiction for can be found on my fan fiction library.
Read my essay at Gargoyles Fan Website about the ins and outs of Sharing a Fanfic Universe.
Check out my articles from the now-defunct online magazine, Total TV Online Top Ten La Femme Nikita Sites, Total TV's Top Ten Due South Fan Sites and Top Ten Fanfic Sites (a cover blurb for a fortnight!) And my fourth and final, Top Ten Gargoyles Sites is in the final issue of Total TV Online.
Check out the following interviews and articles:
- Smallville's Allison Mack
- La Femme Nikita's Matthew Ferguson
- La Femme Nikita's Tara Slone
- Star Trek: Voyager author Christie Golden
- La Femme Nikita storyboard artist Doug MacRae
- La Femme Nikita executive consultant Lawrence Hertzog Part 1
- La Femme Nikita executive consultant Lawrence Hertzog Part 2
- Star Trek: Voyager guest star Michael Reisz
- Buffy and Angel tie-in author Tom Sniegoski
- Author Neil Gaiman
- Four Color Wonders: Comic Books and Censorship, from Seduction of the Innocent to Boiled Angel
Or read the Once Upon a Time archives:
Profic vs Fanfic That River in Egypt Tips for writing better fan fiction Enough alphabet soup! A 'zine! A 'zine! My kingdom for a 'zine! When is a Mary Sue not a Mary Sue? My Heart Will Not Go On, Thanks... Canon Fodder If you can't say anything nice... come sit over here by me. Why research doesn't suck Whomp Upside The Head IV: Return Of The Big Stick AUs and You! Mall Rats Reality By Consensus: The difference between canon and fanon The Rain In Spain In My Ass Is a Pain : dialect do's and don'ts