Stupid Spam

Apologies to anyone who received a spam email message from my gmail account. Very creepy... the email was sitting in my sent mail folder. It appears to have only targeted my 'suggested contacts' not anyone who was in My Contacts.

And it if inconvenienced you, I assure you that your annoyance was greatly surpassed by my embarrassment that an email went to both of my former bosses, family..... and the smutastic awards.

I'll just be sitting here hoping that no one reads thoroughly through the list of contacts.

Ugh, this calls for a beer.

EDIT: And I suspect this arose from having enabled a couple of Google Labs. I can't prove it, but I suspect it.

Updates, updates

Chapter 7 of TWoG has been added to the queue, well ahead of schedule. Betas are on hiatus off and on through the end of the year, so this will mark the last upload until late December. I'm quite proud of the chapter... parts of it were a complete bitch to write, but I *think* I did the characters (and their UST) justice.

I'm drawing close to the end of my little tale, and I hope once I've wrapped it up that I can solicit some constructive criticism here on my LJ. Reviews of the fic. would seem to indicate that I'm the most hilarious, clever author ever, and I'm nearly certain that's not the case. Nearly certain. I'm looking forward to ending the story so that I can look back over it with a more objective eye and improve my writing.

Penning and publishing the story has been such a roller-coaster: Getting over some serious anxiety about writing emails, much less a chaptered story; basking in the glow of the story's initial reception (finding it recommended by several individuals and the digest was an enormous boost to my confidence as a writer); relearning seemingly all punctuation and grammar rules; trying not to get sucked into the trap of clinging to reviews for affirmation; finding that some reviewers just seem to have their feedback permanently set to squee, regardless of author or story; being desperately afraid that I'd made Severus adorable and that Hermione was a complete Mary Sue; and, having more fun than I dreamed possible while making some excellent new friends.