Introductions

I'm Irk! I share Char's brain. I write the novel part of The Peacock King and generally form the other half of Infernal Shenanigans. I blog and stuff on the PK site, and my Twitter is here. http://twitter.com/irkdesu When I HAVE a day job, I do office temp work or graphic design. I did the logo.

I'd like to get a webcomic started with Char sometime, but we're still handling all the stuff we ALREADY do. I'm writing more than PK, though. I generally have several projects going at once. It keeps me regular.

Me next!

I'm a plain jane white bread type of person who dreams in the epic scale and then scrambles madly trying to put all that into words. Since my own life is pretty boring, I muchly prefer flights of fantasy. And sci-fi, and adventure, occasionaly purple or thriller, rarely horror and never pr0n. Love manga and music and webcomics and kitties.

I inflict myself on the world through LilyFields Entertainment, where I post serialized novels (2 currently ongoing), short stories (1 currently up), attempts at art to depict my bizarre characters, and the occasional blog.

My superpower is doing impossible things. Wrap your noodle around that one if you can.

I started writing online after a long post-publication hiatus (well... never a total hiatus... I always have to be writing something...) I published two solo dead-tree novels in 1991 and a collaboration with two other authors in 1992, along with several short stories, and I am now rewriting the solos as #weblit as a single work under the title The Philosopher in Arms and a sequel under the title asa kraiya -- the links might change soon so I'll just direct you to the splash site, www.chevenga.com. (My avatar is the main character, Fourth Chevenga Shae-Arano-e.)

I threw the idea of using "weblit(erature)" as a tag for what we do, and ergo the term to Google, at MeiLin just eight days ago, and now there's a website and even a logo... how cool is that? You guys rock!

Hey hi, I'm MeiLin and I run this joint with an IRON FIST IN A VELVET GLOVE. Or, on Drupal. Take your pick.

I write An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom, but don't go read it now if you don't already because I'm re-writing the whole f-ing thing. No, seriously.

I've been given a lot by the web lit community, so I try to give back as much and as often as possible. Go, you guys!

Hi, I'm Clare! I write Chatoyant College, a fantasy serial. This #weblit thing is pretty cool! I'm trying to figure out how to change the automated thing I have that links to my posts on Twitter so I can have the hashtag in it...

And, um, I don't know what else to say about myself I love to knit, but mostly I love to write. I have other projects in the work that may become weblit or may become traditionally published. Mostly fantasy, as that's what I seem to like most, to read and write.

Salutations!

I'm Illise Montoya (AKA @cajeck) and I'm the author of the serial Eikasia -- which is a fantasy adventure that deals with my two favorite things: cats and kick-butt women.

Besides writing, I like to draw, hike, and edit video. I work part-time and go to community college part-time. I'm part of a creative group (consisting of close friends) that shares the "Eighth Circle Studios" domain. In the future, I hope to start three more #weblit sites--two urban fantasies written entirely by me, another with a fellow ECS member.

Illise, just an FYI. I checked out your site, and I can barely read anything! It's dark text on a dark bkgd. o_O

That's odd... I sent you a message. I'd like to see why it isn't working for ya.

I am Najela or Sora, whichever you prefer. I'm just using my real name so I can google myself. XD. At any rate, I'm the author of It's All Relative, a web serial novel that's been written and rewritten more times than I can count. I'm hoping to finish it soon and post it that way instead of going week by week, because I normally run out of buffer.

More about me. I'm a 4th year Psychology major in Southern California. I like to write, read, and do some artwork from time to time (though I'm not that good at it). I'm currently working a zillion jobs as a freelancer, teacher, student type thing.

I hope to have IAR finished soon so that people can read it. I'm on episode 8 out of 53 episodes...so... uh yeah. #weblit is cool. I just like how it turns things into twitter things.

Yay! Lots of fellow authors!

I'm A. M. Harte (@am_harte on twitter) aka quillsandzebras but just call me Anna.

I am pretty new to the writing side of the scene and scribble on this.

I live in London and talk a lot.

Hi folks, I'm Wystie. I write Tapestry, which is a fantasy story. I am a huge fan of MeiLin and Peacock King (and Legion of Nothing, but he hasn't done an introduction on here yet), but it is a secret because I lurk. I am a champion lurker, because I am not-so-secretly rather shy.

Tapestry is a trilogy, and then apparently there is a sequel trilogy after that. I only realized about the sequel trilogy a few months back. Which is all code for 'I will never finish this damn story.' I am working on updating it more and marketing it more, because in theory I have more free time now that I'm done with university. I live in the Northeast US of A and have been spending the last few months painting the house and gardening. In my day job I edit encyclopedias, dictionaries and textbooks. I am totally part of the publishing establishment, rar.

Hi guys! I'm Shirley and one of Karen's aforementioned co-authors. I'm a writer, an artist, a shiatsu therapist and think that cooking for friends rocks.

My repressive German upbringing says I should be quieter and more self effacing, after all, I'm female... but !$%!@#$% that. My newest interest... actually a very old one but recently expressed... is hang-gliding.

This site is amazing already. Oh, btw I'm currently writing a serialized novel online at www.eclipsecourt.blogspot.com.

Hi, I'm Lyn, late to the party as usual.

Aside from my day job, I'm a writer, a knitter, a crafter, and an outdoorsperson. I'm pushy, aggressive, and neurotic.

I write Addergoole, a contemporary fantasy story with erotic and dark-fantasy elements, a fairy tale without the happy ending.

Hi, I'm MCM or @1889ca and I write many a-thing:
- RollBots, a cartoon show;
- Kids books like The Pig and the Box;
- Silly stuff like Fission Chips;
- Scary stuff like The Vector.

I also program and design and do other things in my spare time, but mostly, I just sit around and do my best to be useless to the world at large. So far, so good!

I'm Kate Sherrod (@KateSherrod on the Twitters), and I write Suppertime Sonnets (http://suppertimesonnets.blogspot.com)among other things.

Suppertime Sonnets is my 2009 experiment in writing and publishing a pseudo-Shakespearean sonnet every day this year. It's the first day of fall and I haven't missed a day yet, which amazes me. At the end of the year, my partner in crime, Lethe Bashar, is going to help me edit them into a book of some kind.

In the meantime I have a weekly podcast in which I read a small selection of the better sonnets (when you're writing one or more a day, quantity sort of overshadows quality, I'm afraid) and explain their inspirations. That's at http://kateofmind.libsyn.com

I'm also in the middle of composing a mock-epic space opera farce in ottava rima, because, you know, the world needed one of those. A mini-version of that is appearing on the sonnet blog on Fridays as part of the #FridayFlash movement, which I highly recommend to all of you tweeting writers. The feedback from lots of new readers to be had there can't be beat!

I also now write for the online arts & culture magazine Escape Into Life (www.escapeintolife.com); my first contribution, an appreciation of Paul Valery's "L'abeille" will be live there as soon as the redesign is completed.

And I've got one more, seekrit, project that should hit next spring if I meet my deadline this month. Woot!

I'm Randilin and at this very moment I should be working on my next post but I'm here instead.

My main online project is Carpe Arcanum http://www.carpearcanum.com an Urban Fantasy story. Dealing with University students discouvering that the world is not all that they thought it was an suddenly having power. It started out as a NANOWrimo project from 2007 but is being nearly completely rewritten in roughly 750 word instalments. In many ways it is a forced writing regiment that keeps me focused on a project and gives me a deadline to work with.

I have recently started working on a Flash Friday posts that I share on a number of groups and post to my personal blog http://betweentheticks.blogspot.com

I also co host a Pagan Focus quadcast (Podcast) call The Magical Earth http://themagicalearth.blogspot.com

In between all of that and other none Web based projects I some how find time to Twitter @Randilin

Alright enough procrastination I need to get Tuesdays post finished

Randilin

Hi folks!

I'm Ace. I write KAT AND MOUSE: GUNS FOR HIRE, a cyberpunk/action-adventure series.

Looking forward to chatting up strategies on spreading the WebLit word.

I'm Miladysa and I write Refuge of Delayed Souls

Like MeiLin and Najela I have recently taken some time out to rewrite/redraft my story and (fingers crossed) it should be back online by the weekend.

I would describe myself as a bit of a quiet soul - though at times you may not think so LOL

Hello

I'm Lin Robinson (contrary to my nickname the left of my heavily retouched picture) and here I am.

Cool, huh?

I've been writing a couple of bloglit (blooks? blit? webalogs?) on a site my publisher set up Adoro Cyberlit and one of them will be out in eBook form by the end of the month, both a download for under $5 and a CD version for whatever they figure out.

I have done all of the promo for my books on adroro My Adoro page and also the videos for my work and few others for the Adoro doods.
I like video and sell a cheap manual aimed at writers who want to make book "trailers". Video Manual with dumbass title. I guess that comes under WebLit promotion.

I think this is a great site concept and will be very interested in seeing where it goes.

YAY SOMEONE ELSE USED "BLIT"! I just had to mark the occasion. <3

Hi, I am Jolantru and I write Oysters, Pearls and Magic: http://jolantru.wordpress.com. I also write stuff (occasionally updated) The Book Of Phoenii: http://thebookofphoenii.wordpress.com.

I hail from Singapore and I hope to see more writers from my region.

My twitter handle is the same as my login name here. And yes, I am a Star Trek fan, mostly the Romulans.

So, hi everyone, I'm Isa and as always I am terribly late to the party XD

I'm currently writing two serials and a third that's on hiatus right now (because I didn't want to write about Christmas in July?)

Ugly Little Communist House (on hiatus): Imagine a travel guide to Prague and the Czech Republic written by John Nash of a Beautiful Mind. The narrator of ULC has an undisclosed neurological disorder which comes up from time to time as she guides you through the expat scene, the English teaching industry, and the finer points of Czech culture.

Martin Ostrowski's Season in the Red: A three book series about the trials and tribulations of professional sports and the media machine as told through the perspectives of hockey players from the former Soviet Union. Wacky and ridiculously slash friendly.

Split-Self: Sex and the City if Carrie Bradshaw was a psychic vampire looking to feed instead of a single girl looking for love. Deals heavily with the underground cultures of NYC, particularly the microcosm of fameballs and bloggers.

Guess I'll go next. I'm Seth Gray, and I write Dead Boyfriend, a series about gay sex and vampires.

I'm finally signing up here after the week from hell, and hopefully will be getting into the discussions and what not soon.

Oh, and I'm willing to bet I'm one of the youngest writers here at twenty--any takers?

Seth,

Anna might be younger than you, actually.

I'm certainly not, except in that alternate dimension where Anna swears I'm a time-traveling 17-year-old, which almost makes sense.

~Lyn

If I remember correctly, she's either 22 or almost 22. I'll only be 21 this December.

Hi, I'm Stormy

I run Wibbly Press which isn't doing much at the moment other than hosting three serials (and one defunct one), but is going to move from it's current incarnation into something a lot cooler (which I'll probably share once I feel brave enough).

I write Mirrorfall which is basically a geeky urban fantasy with a crazy, caffeine-addicted hacker girl for a main character. It's an ongoing series, book one is finished, book two is currently being released.

I also do Diary of Dead Girl which is kind of an experiment in style - brain-dead zombie-girl syntax is fun, and on hiatus at the moment.

I'm Jim Zoetewey.

I write a superhero serial called the Legion of Nothing. Once upon a time, I intended to offer other stories on my website, but haven't gotten around to it. This is funny because I tend to be rather irregular about reading comics whereas I've read science fiction and fantasy novels consistently for years. One would think that I'd be writing in those genres instead.

I'm also a web developer/system administrator.

Hello, chums!

I am Mr. Fanton, esquire, the poor sap charged with the duty of transcribing Lord Likely's Astonishing Adventures from his journals to the web. I am kept in a dank cellar, and tied to a typewriter in order to perform said task.

Occasionally, I get bread and water in return.

Other than Likely, I did once work on writing and developing a kids' cartoon of my own creation, the pilot episode of which can be seen here.

So, there you have it. Hello!

I'm Vanessa Brooks, the other half of the writing team for Strange Little Band.

When I'm not following, suggesting, or otherwise influences the antics of Shane Myers and Addison Harris, I'm a full time Desktop Support Specialist (that's a fancy way of saying I help corporate users with their computer issues) and also a full time wife and mother. Due to the latter, my free time is limited, and I'm frequently wishing for a few more hours in the day.

I'm also a big geek, and have been known to lose hours playing MMO games. Currently, my husband and I play WoW.

Hi, I'm April Raines (duh). I run April Raines' Storybook Corner. Currently there are two serials and a smattering of poetry.

The main serial is The Shadows of Sicily. It is a dark fantasy involving betrayal, power games and the supernatural set in ancient Sicily.

The secondary serial is GURD 2108. It is a warm, friendly post-apocalyptic exploration of community.

Hi, I'm JM. I write Storm's Fall, a fantasy novel about fun things like writing magic, vaguely political undertakings, and such.

I live near Seattle, and right now I am mostly unemployed. When I do work, it is at a large sports stadium.

Well, after surviving comprehensive exams, I'm now very late to the very cool party.

I'm Allan T Michaels, and I write two on-going seriels over at MeiLin's Digital Novelists domain. They are An Empire of Law, an epic fantasy spanning an empire, dealing with intrigue, murder, mystery, war, death and civil strife.

I also write GPU, a sci-fi serial set in a world I call "Yesterday's Tomorrow." Basically, it's how the future was envisioned in the 50s and 60s. It is a college tale, but with a twist - first, it's sci-fi, rather than fantasy and second, like myself, the main character is a graduate student, rather than an undergrad.

I also have two novellas of my urban fantasy Superstition, about an occult private investigator.

All of this can be seen at my site: http://allantmichaels.digitalnovelists.com

Hello everyone! Nice to see so many familiar names. I'm Kira, a writer/editor/web designer by trade and avocation, and a one-time musician (well ... a singer, anyway, heh).

My webseries is About Schuyler Falls, which is about to mark its 12th anniversary online in November! Though we've had some stops & starts along the way, so I can't boast continual production on it. In addition to the site being old as dirt (I haven't redone it since 2001), ASF's a bit the odd girl out here, as my writing lacks the cool fantasy element that appears to be the most popular genre here by far. (Well, there used to be a hint of supernatural to it, but that was a fakeout!) It's just a soapy, suspenseful, operatic saga about a bunch of utterly normal people, except they're all neurotic messes with one or two exceptions. The plots focus on murder, mystery, obsession, passion, addiction, crime, humor, romance, and more than a touch of the bizarre. Also I don't publish on WordPress, so I'm really an oddity! I use old-fashioned HTML the way God and Tim Berners-Lee intended.

Some of you may also know me as editor/admin of the EpiGuide, which is another community for producers/creators and audience members of web-based entertainment, mostly text-based serials but also webcomics and webisodes/video webseries. I cofounded the site back in '98 and now do pretty much everything. We have a directory, forum, and boatloads of old articles and hopefully new stuff too. Everyone here is welcome to promote your work at the Eppy; we have a forum category for site news where you can post your updates, and the aforementioned link directory is available too. Oh, we also host WeSeWriMo, aka Web Series Writing Month, which takes place in August and has been running for three years now. Anyone who specializes in serialized storytelling can take part!

Oh and I'm also both pathologically shy and quite staggeringly wordy. But you probably figured out the second of those already. Thanks to MeiLin and everyone for creating such a terrific community!

EpiGuide! Yay, EpiGuide! Is it in the Resources section? Please add it! And I'm really happy to have someone in the non-SFF WebLit world here. I was beginning to worry we'd drive everyone else off. As for WordPress, I say ptui to WordPress. Drupal, baby!

(Actually, WordPress is fine. I've just made it my business not to know anything about it. I can only have one CMS at a time cluttering up my brain.)

Aw, thanks for the warm welcome, MeiLin! Y'know, I was looking at the Resources section and wanted to submit the Eppy, but for the life of me I can't figure out how. I'm sure I'm being embarrassingly dense here... At the bottom of the section there's a link that says "You can add your own listing by getting a free account!" but clicking the link just takes me to my member page. Do I need more posts to amp up my permissions here?

Try "create content" in the lefthand sidebar, and you should be good to go from there. <3

OH. I see now. Thanks very much!

I wonder if maybe it'd be useful to add that info to the abovementioned line of instructions on how to create a resource listing? I'm not sure that's intuitive for those not used to Drupal.

Hello
This is a very interesting approach and we will be looking for ways to work what you are doing in with our existing promotion plans.

"We" are a sort of split personality hydra, a group effot. I see that some of you are also team-writing. Cool. We're used to that, but it's different when there's no showrunner around to make all your decisions instead of having somebody sane do it.

Our interest in the Yucatan grew out of having a time-share there. And, of course the natural fear and denial that comes from realizing the end of the world is in three years and you will probably finally hit the success you've always dreamed of about five minutes before its all over.

You don't really care about this drivel, do you? Neither do we, we're just trying to be good neighbors and solid citizens.

We're just hoping we've found a forum that won't freak out and kick us off when the read the sex with dolphins chapter.

Sex with dolphins? Awesome. You're in the right place, at least with some of us.

> We're just hoping we've found a forum that won't freak out and kick us off when the read the sex with dolphins chapter.

Team 2012, you DO know how to write a sales pitch!

Well, it sure didn't work that way on a couple of other forums.
We even changed the chapter (and illustrations) to something a lot less "graphic".
Hey, call us craven... we write TV and have learned to cave in without pause. Also, a lot of readers of this are Mexico expatriates, apparently. (Read: gringo retirees with a Midwest mentality)
We'll probably switch back somewhat in the book version. Which will, of course, cause a bunch of big fights as to whether the taste of dolphin dick is too much information.

The episode is here:
http://mayancalendargirls.com/wp/?p=399

A current illustration is this:

As opposed to this:

And this one got dropped alltogether.

One funny thing that came out of the several shitstorms on websites was the idea on a major writing site that whereas sex with aliens and demons is OK, sex with terrestrial species other than humans is sick.
Even if they have bigger brains. Not sure how that fits into the "size matters" controversy.

By the way fishfucking is not all that integral to this story. The sturgeon general has determined that delphindorks can be hazardous to your health and self extreme. Other side effects include headaches, dysmenorrhea, lowered self-esteem, and the gnawing idea that humans are ill adapted to a planet primarily covered in water.

I always wondered what happened to Flipper.

Dysmenorrhea? Oh dear, that's not a good sign. Well, unless that was the goal..

HA HA I wondered if anything creative would come from dolphinsex.org!

>sturgeon general

GRRRROOOOOAAANNNNN

Wow. Dolphin porn.

Always learn something new on the interwebz...

"By the way fishfucking is not all that integral to this story."

I sure hope that's its tagline.

My name is The Inkling. I write Forever of the Universe a webserial about a world where elves and vampires exist in a constant battle for power over the free will of mankind. It's pretty new, only a few chapters, no readers really, and it's supposed to update Sunday night, but I haven't quite gotten into a rhythm yet.

I sure hope that's its tagline. That would draw 'em in, all right. Actually, I think their tagline is
"A chapter a week until the end of the world"

"A chapter a week until the end of the world"

I like it!

"Following that... twice weekly"

Hullo there. My name is Gabriel Gadfly. I have a love-hate relationship with my serial Courier's Creed. We haven't been on speaking terms in the last few months, but we're patching things up. I also write oodles of poetry, also featured on my website.

When I'm not terrorizing the literary world, I work as a reference assistant at an academic library in central Alabama.

Hello everyone!
My name is Christine, and I am dying for comments on my novella "Travels Through Love and Time", I love to get them, I live for them, and this is why the novella is free on my web site:
http://sites.google.com/site/chvolkoff

This story will probably appeal more to women, gay or bisexual, but some straight men have really enjoyed it and said it helped them understand women...so whatever.
It is very romantic, takes place in the South of France, Paris, and Venice Beach, CA. Its style is introspective, and the story is quite erotic though not explicit.

Please come visit!

Hullo! I'm a female twenty-something and I've been making up fantasy stories for as long as I can remember. I've toyed with writing them down and publishing/sharing them for the last ten years, but it wasn't until I stumbled on AE's "Tales of MU" and especially MeiLin's "Intimate History" that I realized that weblit was the perfect venue for my storytelling.

I spent over a year working up the resolve to start writing (and dithering over *which* story to tell), but I've finally stuck my toe in the water with a story called "Strong Heart". I consider the whole experience - storytelling, writing, managing my lj/web presentation, etc. - very much practice/beta mode for what I hope to do in the future. I'm certainly doing my best to absorb all the wonderful advice and experience y'all have shared here (and on MLM, and DN, and WFG)!

~capriox bovidae (a/k/a "cap" from the MLM forums)

PS - I've only got 2 story posts up as of this introduction, but I've already commented too much here to not say hi.

Yay cap! Welcome to weblit (in both senses of the word).

Hmm. I'm not into penis jokes nor sex with dolphins. All you cool kids continue the party. Someone's got to hold up the wall.

Yeah. That was another one of Linton's IDs.

Welcome, capriox! There's something about MeiLin that makes her readers write, isn't there?

Yeah, they all read me and go, "Shit, I can do better than THIS!"

Actually, Tales of MU is what made me say that. *You* made me say, "shit, I want to be that awesome!"

Hello everyone. I'm new here, but some of you might have recognized me. My pen name is Murazrai and I'm currently writing two novels:

Chaos Fighters-Route of Earth: The third book of a story arc which tells a chosen one's (among eight) from the deep ground (underground) on her quest to qualify herself to fight the demon lord in the realm of satan.

Chaos Fighters: Cyber Assault-The Secret Programs: A long term webserial project which tells the struggle of a big research team to obtain programs that can create and refine digital sentient beings from the officers' point of view.

With these novels completed:
Chaos Fighters-Route of Land: The first book of a story arc which tells a chosen one's (among eight) from the lands on his quest to qualify herself to fight the demon lord in the realm of satan.

Chaos Fighters-Route of Sea: The second book of a story arc which tells a chosen one's (among eight) from the seas on her quest to qualify herself to fight the demon lord in the realm of satan.

Chaos Fighters II-Cyberion Strike: An officer who was in a vacation was forced to aid in fighting cyber crime from a criminal organization, not knowing that someone else use them to plan something even bigger.

Hi, I've already asked for a bit of help, but I could do to introduce myself here too:

I'm Lizzy, another 20-something, and another grad student. After a frantic undergrad, I'm finally finding time to write again and have used that time to help my friends resurrect and polish a story we dreamed up in highschool, so you can add another to the "team writing" tally.

Trivia:

- The first 3 chapters (in a completely different incarnation) were actually on the internet from around 1999-2001 before we killed that angelfire webpage.

- You may notice that the 3 main characters have the same first initial as the authors. They were originally our screen-names as webmistresses on angelfire, but developed into characters very independent from their namesakes.

- Originally we conceived the story being told in video game format, and actually programmed part of it as an RPG for a final project.

Oh, Angelfire... I remember that site! My first website was there.

Yeah, me too. Memories!

ooh! I need to catch up on The Peacock King! I started reading it when I saw an ad for it on one of my websites where I run Project Wonderful ads (probably circlet.com) but then lost the bookmark to it, got busy, dog ate my homework, etc...

Oh, and hi, introduction and all that. I write fantasy, science fiction, erotica, and mixtures of the genres, but my main web serial is actually a real world 1980s period piece. It wasn't a period piece when I started writing it, but it ended up that way... It does have GLBT themes, though, as our main character struggles with being in the closet, in denial, in and out of music school, in a dysfunctional but talented rock band, et cetera. As the tagline goes: "Sex, drugs, rocknroll, the closet, the stage, the 80s."