I am writing again, though it is only on my time off. I will keep my poll up just to see if the results change. It is strange that so many people want to see Protecting Harry finished yet, so few people review. I just want to point out that it is the only pay I get, and it makes me want to write. The more you review, the more I want to write. My muse is feed that way. She's fickle like that.

I do this for fun and not profit. If you like my writing let me know, via reviews or pms. Feel free to leave me prompts, though no romance, I won't write romance. Also, when it starts feeling like work, I will take a break and then come back when it's a hobby again.

I was asked if I had to pick 3 of my stories that I liked the best I'd pick Reclaiming the House of Black, Harry Potter and Re-building a Utopia, and The Dead Potions Master. Ironically only one is one of my most popular. The other two are not up there, but I have reread them many times, which means I think I've done a good job. This has changed to Deadpool's Fun and Weaponized Cuteness and Re-building a Utopia. What can I say, I love Deadpool. Now I've got to say that The Near-Sighted Basilisk is one of my favorites. Again, not one of the more popular ones, but I have a feeling it's a sleeper.

I've had a few reviews accusing me of being a homophobe. That is utterly ridiculous, my daughter, my niece, and some very good friends of mine are not straight. I have no clue how they got that from my writing. I was raised in a diverse community and have no qualms against any culture. I was a navy brat and was mostly raised in California in the late 70s early 80s. Free love and all that. Silly people and their silly ideas.

My Avatar is pictures drawn by my third daughter. She always was a good artist. Check out her work here. (Mazehollowsart(.)threadless(.)com) remove the parentheses. FFN won't let me post the link, sorry.

Let me correct a misconception, I am an American. However, I'm writing from a British perspective, so I try to have my stories use British lingo. I don't always get it right, as is pointed out to me via brit-pickers (to which I am very thankful). Anyways, some reviewers seem to think I'm from the UK, nope born and bred USA. Just thought I'd clear that up.

If you are reading this, I'm going to assume you've read at least one of my stories. In most of my stories I speculate that there's no such thing as muggleborn. I'm constantly asked, then where did the first one come from? My answer: the same place the first human came from... Evolution. They evolved, just like non-magicals. I could but a religious twist on it, and say Magic was a deity that worked in conjunction with God, but I'm more of an atheist than religious. Not straight up but leaning that way. Anyway, that's my answer.

One of my challenges was taken up. It is called A Day in the Life of Madam Pomfrey by PokePotterfan93: It is a very adorable story, you should give it a read.

There is also a one-shot off my A Brand New Start story: Brand New Start - Home Dimension by RUGoing2writethat. It is a really cute story on what happens to George and Hermione after Hydrus/Harry leaves.

Nightmare was co-written with Smargden, the original Swedish version can be found with the English version on his profile. You can still find The Escape on his page.

Mary will be translating Halstead: The Fortress into Slovak language. It hasn't posted yet, but here's the website .

Denice, has translated What About Our Points? To Czech. https:///modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7615

A German translation of Reclaiming the house of Black : Chapter 1 : by sternaechte : Harry Potter Harry Potter - FFs

A German translation for Spiders Make Good Friends by Thorrus Spiders Make Good Friends Chapter 1: Making Friends, a harry potter fanfic FanFiction

Joining a community is useful. If you're part of one, you don't have to browse through all the fics, just let them do it for you. Well, you can still browse, when you feel like it. I have my own community and add anything I'm likely to read more than once. So, go, join mine, or another, or ten, and let me, or them, help you find a good story.

How to find a beta

Go to the top of ffn, click the beta tab, select your type of story (book, movie…), narrow results (Harry Potter, Twilight...), narrow them some more (drama, family…), go to the last page for newer betas, read profiles, and pm who you like. I suggest more than one.

If you want to extend one or more of my one-shots or create a world that branches off one of mine, have at it, just drop me a link so I can let my readers know. I find it flattering.

Thanks for dropping by and reading my rambling.

I am cross posting a few stories on AO3 under the name faewm, or the orphaned account under fairywm. Just so you know it is me, or when ffn get wonky.