So, this is going to be really embarrassing for a good friend from long ago. Too bad.
The summary: SleepsWithCoyotes is porting her fanfiction over to Archive of Our Own.
My first reaction: fall over, giggling things like YAY! and OMG!
My second reaction: adding her to the top of my Fanfiction Recommendations list.
The long story: This is one of the incredible writers who introduced me to the idea of slash fanfiction (and original slash) back in the early 2000s. Her work helped teach me how to write. Of course I included her pen name in the dedication for Moro’s Price.
SWC is an amazing writer. If she isn’t pro-published now she easily could be. Her stories have everything good, from brilliant characterizations to searing sex to intricate plots and settings. If it was all orginal fiction, her back catalog alone could power a commercial erotic romance publisher into the big leagues, and make Big Five imprints blink. For anyone who loved C. S. Pacat’s ‘Captive Prince’ original slash series? SleepsWithCoyotes is one of the wellsprings.
But due to very reasonable career worries, SWC took her stories offline long ago. I can’t blame her decision. I mourned but accepted it.
Except…those stories were damned good, and other folks all over the internet were trying to ‘save’ them by archiving them all over the place. Which annoyed SWC to no end. Again, can’t blame her.
I was aware that she had a limited, guarded presence online, but I didn’t pry. Or include links to her well-guarded sanctum. But now that she’s posting on AO3, I can.
Welcome back, Coyo.