Happy Friday, Fictionees! This week, we’ve got something special for you. It’s our THREE year anniversary!

We can’t thank you enough for all of the support you’ve given us. There aren’t enough words to express how much we ♥ you. We’ve got some fun things planned for you this weekend, starting with Fictionator Flashbacks, ten classic fics that we love and remember from back in the day.

Be sure to check back all weekend, especially on Sunday when our brand new podcast will make its debut! We’re also having a huge giveaway that you’re not going to want to miss!

• Creature of Habit by EZRocksAngel
• Dark Side of the Moon by: blondie aka Robin
• Scotch, Gin, and the New Girl by withthevampsofcourse and jandco
• Son of a Preacher Man by by LaVie Pastiche
• The Submissive, The Dominant, and The Training by tara sue me
• Tropic of Virgo by in.a.blue.bathrobe
• The Vampire in the Basement by michellephants
• Wide Awake by AngstGoddess003

Thank you to our amazing (and very pretty) guest reviewers: Legna, GoldenMeadow, OCDindeed, KiyaRaven, Robmatized Ded, AltheaJams, and pippapear! (even if they didn’t realize that we were featuring their reviews again lol)

Did you check out our latest Wednesdays with Teeth recommendation? Don’t miss Becoming Jane and Creating Alec by Lorelid.

Did you catch our latest book review? You’ll want to check out Insurgent by Veronica Roth for sure! We love eet!

Katinki: So this has been a good fic week for me. First off, two authors I really like reading started new fics, and both of them are AUs Spanglemaker posted the first chapter of Dog Star. This is her first go at AU, so I’m excited to see what she does with it. And duskwatcher2153, an excellent AU writer, posted the first chapter of Journal of a Young Vampire. The voice in it is superb.

On the AH front (because I do read those, too! ;D), I started a story by Hibbleton78, called Home Ice Advantage. It’s a Hockeyward, and thus far, it’s rather fun. And importantly, the author knows something about the sport, so it works well. Oh, and I joined what feels like the rest of the fandom and read all the available chapters of My Wounded Soldier, by counselor. I’ll be upfront in saying that I don’t read a lot of historical or western-ish fic… just not my cuppa (except Rochelle’s historical fic, Volition, which I consumed like delicious chocolate cake). The plot in this one is okay… still not my cuppa, but the voice of it – the cadence, the phrasing, the rhythm, the believability of it – is really very good, enough that I can look past my normal genre preferences. Really, that’s what makes this fic – the voice. Not gonna lie, though, I soooo hear James Brolin from True Grit when I read, lol.

MJinAspen: OMGGG, Kate, I’m so excited for Dog Star! I haven’t had the chance to see ch. 2, yet, though, but I can’t wait.

Kassiah: I am totally in love with counselor. I agree with what you’re saying, Kate, about the voice in My Wounded Soldier. I am so impressed with her! Last week, I read her story, Turkey Baster, and it was unlike anything I was expecting. I’m so hooked on her–I started reading Catwoman and I’m loving that too!

Excited to check out Home Ice Advantage. I really liked her story, Empires of the Mind.

Songster: Still can’t get with the My Wounded Soldier program but am very interested in the Turkey Baster one. What I am reading and completely loving is High Fidelity by IReenH. We had two updates this past week. This girl can really, really write. The voices in this are so authentic, emotionally gripping that I really feel like I’m in their heads as uncomfortable as that can be at times. I know this will be a rocky ride though and you know me and angst. I can’t even believe I’m reading it, but it’s that good.

On a different note, with Stanley Cup happenings, Home Ice Advantage sounds like a good one to read. I love a hot Hockeyward. Wait, there is a hot Hockeyward, right?

LJSummers: I have been enamored of that Star Wars fic I mentioned last week. Obidala, as that fandom calls the pairing. It’s called One Path and it’s by Lionchilde. She still answers reviews, though the fic’s been complete for three years. I think that’s really cool. This is a slightly divergent Star Wars canon, with all the main events occurring in their usual timeframe, but with the romance being between Obi Wan Kenobi and Padmé Amidala. (I love this.) At over half a million words, it’s a saga all by itself and I highly recommend it for Star Wars fans.

I’m also still reading Dreamcatcher, A Song of Ice and Fire fic, with the Sandor/Sansa pairing. We were just dropped off a cliff (figuratively) and I’m all !! about what will happen after chapter ten!

Caren: I took ya’lls advice and started Turkey Baster…and I caught up last night. You were right. I loved it. I never, ever expected a story like that to make me all clenchy, but it completely did.

On the book front, I’m working my way through Until I Die by Amy Plum, which is the sequel to her debut novel Die For Me. Ohhhh Vincent.

LJSummers: On the book front for me, I just finished 11/22/63 by Stephen King. I even read it hardcover. This was a really different novel and long-time fans of Stephen King will recognize how he hints at other works of his within the telling of this story. While setting this up as a story that changes history by preventing the assassination of John F. Kennedy, what this book really does is present us with puzzling dilemmas on how much we should really try to alter reality – even a bad reality. With our limited perspective, we cannot know all the ramifications of our decisions. The book’s end is bittersweet – just the way I like it.

MsKathy: Read the Silver Lining update today! Squeed, interesting details about Bella’s kids came out, and I giggled at “The warrior pose is next, and the only good thing I can say about it is that I don’t fall over as I’m doing it.” (because I’ve felt the exact same way).

MJinAspen: Hopefully the personal drama in my life will die down so that I can get back into reading fic more often again! As mentioned, I’m reading Dog Star by Spanglemaker9, and still reading The Hunger Games.

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Good evening, Fictionees! We hope you’re having a great week! We’ve got three great recs for you this time, but before that we’ve got a few quick announcements!

Kass would like to thank every person who blogged, tweeted, and clicked on the links to support #TeamAmity last month! We won!!! So, thank you! {{hug}}

Our brand new podcast will make it’s debut very soon and we’ll be answering your questions! If you’ve got something to ask one (or all) of us, ask us here. We’ve got some awesome stuff planned for you next week so be sure you check back all week long!

We mentioned this earlier this week but wanted to let you know that there’s still time to get Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini for only 99 cents and Die for Me by Amy Plum for just $1.99. We’re not sure when this deal ends, but it’s probably very soon!

• A Getty Romance by rinabina
• Like Crazy by willyoupleasebequiet
• Mooning Over My Hammy by shalu

Thank you to our amazing (and very pretty) guest reviewers: ExquisiteEdward, Gennell, and Iklepixie!

Did you check out our latest Wicked Wednesday recommendation? Don’t miss The Sweetest Thing by sydneytwilightmum and vbfb1.

Did you catch our latest book review? You’ll want to check out The Selection by Kiera Cass for sure! Share your favorite princess story with us and snag a copy for yourself!

Songster: Along with the Divergent #readalong, which by the way was a lot of fun, I have been inhaling The Agreement by Gemgirl65. Holy shizz *fans self* Very hot and despite what could be a cliched plot has a wonderful emotional backdrop. Also just found a very cute little story called We Are Young by MyLifeandHis. This Edward… this Edward, oh my, just love him.

LJSummers: I just now finished Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen. It’s a Robin Hood tale and I was absolutely enraptured after I got about thirty pages into it. If you like this kind of thing, if you liked the BBC Robin Hood… This is a great book. Will Scarlet…is a girl. It’s not a perfect book, mind, but it is highly engaging and I recommend it. Oh! And in honor of it being “May the Fourth be With You” day – (May 4th!) I am reading a non-canon (go ahead, I know you want to stone me) Star Wars Fic: One Path by Lionchilde

Kassiah: Oh, LJ! The author of Scarlet is having a cool giveaway on her site right now. You can win a t-shirt!

LJSummers: @Kassiah – I just went there and posted. Thank you! ~ LJ

Kassiah: You guise. I’m almost ashamed to tell you the title of the fic I started reading this weekend. It’s Turkey Baster by counselor (the same girl who writes My Wounded Soldier), and it’s good so far. It’s not at all what I would expect from a fic with a name like that. ETA: I caught up with this story and it seems like it’s almost complete. I like it!

MJinAspen: This week I think I’ll get to actually read something! I’m going back to The Hunger Games, bookwise, and I think I’m gonna start Neverending Math Equation this week, since I’m a loser and never read it.

@LJ last week you asked if I knew of any Carlisle vamp recs, right? I’m sorry I didn’t get to that. I will this week, though, because I dooooo. ♥

LJSummers: @ MJ I read the one you gave me and it was good. More would be good, too.

MJinAspen: @LJ wait-what did I give you? I don’t even remember! LOL

LJSummers: For a Season by giselle-lx.

Kassiah: MJ I just read The Hunger Games last month, and I really loved it. So much.

LJSummers: @Kassiah – Squee! I saw the movie on Sunday. You should, too. If you haven’t.

MJinAspen: @kassiah @LJ I am so excited, for serious. (I still haven’t read any of the HP books. lol)

Kassiah: @LJ I’ve seen the movie–more than once and I never do that! I love it!!!!

Katinki: On the fic front, I read this one shot, Candy from Strangers, today by Chicklette, and like everything she writes, it’s just lovely. I swear she has the most amazing ability to create these character voices that just… idk… work. I love it. Also, I had a ball reading a new one shot by the one and only lady who can get me to read poly MsKathy! <3 She recently posted Indulgence and it was… yeah, um… unf. ;D

And of course, I’m still gobbling up my usual favorite WIPs: Prism, Glimmer Darkly, & Cutlass.

On the book front, I read the newest book by Laury Falter, called Residue. I haven’t written my goodreads review yet, but it was really entertaining and I can’t wait for book 2 in the series to come out in June. This author goes the self-publishing route, and yeah, there are a few things that need a little work in her books. But I LOVED her Guardian Trilogy (read it thrice now), and the Residue Series is starting off really well. She has this awesome knack for creating a) good stories, b) fantastic characters, c) a lot of lovely, lovely UST, and d) she’s one of very few YA authors who don’t use that godforsaken love triangle bullshit angst device. No, she goes the whole fated love route, and it’s just… sigh.

MJinAspen: @katinki Happy Birthday, by the way. Hehehe. ♥ I loved Indulgence, too. Such fun PWP, which we all need every once in a while.

Katinki: @MJ thank you! ♥

MsKathy: @katinki – YES, happy belated birthday!!! <3 I hope it was AWESOME.

LJSummers: In my neverending search for quality wolf fic, I may have found another winner. I’m all caught up with a Paul/Bella WIP called Playing with Fire by Dance Elle Dance. It’s rare to find Bella so very canon in this pairing and I am loving it.

Kassiah: I wrote a rec for Scotch, Gin, and the New Girl for TLS this week and omg I had so much fun rereading it. It’s my favorite fic, you know, and I can’t ever get enough.

Songster: OMG and Rob! Happiest of Happy Birthdays, ms. katinki. I hope you had a lovely day. As for me, I have done nothing for the past day and a half but inhale Insurgent by Veronica Roth. Work was rude and kept interfering with my reading. I did catch up with Prism and Blind Spot. Both were as usual brilliant.

Katinki: @songster mwah! <3 Gah, what is it with work these days? Mine’s freaking killing me. No time for hardly anything :/ *pouts*

Caren: I, of course, devoured both Divergent and Insurgent this week. Last night I even got to meet Veronica Roth! Can I tell you how excited I was? Very. Not only that, but both books… are amazing. Sometimes authors suck the second time around, or I realize that what I loved at first wasn’t really all that awesome. I’m glad I was right and it really is just that good. I absolutely cannot wait for book three (which, she confirmed, is not titled Detergent, lol).

I also plan to start Ten by Gretchen McNeil (whose debut novel Possess, I absolutely LOVED). Homegirl has a way with the scary! Plus she’s a sweetheart.

On the fic front, I am still loving Brighter by Rochelle Allison and Blind Spot by FictionFreak95. I haven’t started anything new recently, and my update box is feeling very lonely and sad. Perhaps that’s a good thing, maybe I can actually get some writing done.

Songster: @caren *nods head in the affirmative* Yes to the writing! I am so jealous of your getting to meet Veronica Roth. I really liked both books. She didn’t do the over-recap, nor did she leave readers on an unacceptable precipice waiting for the next. Although, I must admit to needing to knowing like yesterday when the next release might be expected. Is it going to be Convergent FTW? LOL.

Kassiah: NOT Detergent? What will I do???? lol

Caren: Nope, not Detergent. She said they’re throwing around names, and that the doc on her computer is titled Detergent as a joke until they make a decision, lol. And I like Convergent! That’s clever!

LJSummers: I just started Stephen King’s 11/22/63 – It’s a time-travel story about an everyday English teacher who gets the opportunity to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Very engaging and thought-provoking, so far! I’ve also been keeping up with my favorite works in progress in the fandom, including A Forest Fire and Origins. (Yes, I am apparently still on a Bella/Jasper kick, as well as Paul/Bella. What is the matter with me? No, don’t answer that…) Additionally, I heard word that WhisperingWolf, the author of Bette Noir on Twilighted, is posting again! A post-Eclipse AU, it’s Bella/Edward and I’m glad she’s back!

MsKathy: Have been fail on the fic front this week. Hoping to catch up on some things next week.

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