Occasionally I’m going to rec some fic I”ve come across. (Mostly on Livejournal: I’m sure there are other places, but I don”t know what other sites there are and I’m askeered of Fanfic.net.) These will be little posts (called “asides” in the lingo) under the “recs” category, and I”ll include the pertinent information: rating, fandom, pairing, summary, link, and author.

I will admit to not being the best rec’er ever: my recommendations tend to dwindle to, “I really liked it.” (Sad for an ex-English major, I know.) So I’m not going to go into why I liked a particular story most of the time. Just, y”know, that I did, and you might too.

Yay attempting to spread the love

Damalepazhur is the king of a land long ago and far away, and he really needs the fabled diamond he’s heard of for protection. The diamond is a young man named Ketu, a fisherman, and he reluctantly joins the palace household, and learns to have a fondness for the king, even of court life is strange to him.

When a stranger comes to the city and tries to turn the people against Damalepazhur, Ketu steps in to so his job, revealing the identity, and the plot of the stranger, putting himself right in the path of danger. Will Damalepazhur be able to thank Ketu the way he wants to?

Purchasing information is here.

(Now I’m going to go jump up and down for a bit.)

Thanks, y’all.

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The King’s Diamond will be released April 16, 2008.

Whenever I write an announcement I’m taken back to the girls’ camp of my youth and how we’d greet any announcement with a little song: “You talk too much! You worry my head! You talk too much! You talk, talk, talk toooooo much!”

Anyway. Late last week I made some changes to my webhost: namely, I changed to a new one, and bought a new domain name that, the very least, should be easier to remember than quixoticquest.com. All my fic from lucyjanesparlor is now mirrored at misslucyjane.com. (Older fic, I haven’t made up my mind about yet.)

I’m still working on rebuilding all the tags (unfortunately, the import file was too big to actually import, so I had to find a workaround involving LJ Archive) and installing plugins, so any fic posted for the next while will probably go here first and be added there later.

While I’m announcing things, lucyjanesparlor currently has 105 members and 172 watchers. I’m thinkin’ when it hits 175 watchers we should do something to celebrate. Not sure what yet, though, and I will accept suggestions.

And since I’m in an announce-y mood, you know that professional writing that I keep doing instead of fic? I have a novella coming out on April 16th called The King’s Diamond. I’ll have more information about that next week.