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[essayel]

Just been looking down my friends page and reading marinerusalka's latest post was horrified to see that ajhalluk has deleted her journal and left us. Her reasons can be found in a comment on hedda62's journal. This actually shakes me rigid. A J Hall was one of the first fan fiction authors I ever read and remains one of my favourites. Above all others she seems the most likely to ever succeed in getting published in a 'proper' book and I certainly would queue at the shop to buy it. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way of letting her know this.

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[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

Which journal did she post her reasons in? Email me if you don't want to say.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Same here - which journal? Email if you'd prefer, shezan at gmx.net

And ajhalluk has an email that can be found on her web site, www.shoesforindustry.net, for you guys trying to contact her.

[fuchsoid.livejournal.com]

I've only been reading fan fiction for a year or so, and she was the first HP writer I ever read, setting an unreasonably high benchmark for everyone else to reach. Surely she can't be gone for good.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

This one:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/hedda62/52654.html?thread=107182#t107182

I feel bereft.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/hedda62/52654.html?thread=107182#t107182

I only hope it's winter induced depression. A review suggesting that English was my second language almost stopped me writing this time last year.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/hedda62/52654.html?thread=107182#t107182

This is the post that seems to have sent her away. Not at all hedda62's fault but springing from that stupid essay.
The thought that we might never see her Draco and Nevill again fills me with sadness.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

I only hope it's winter induced depression.

I do too. I mean, otherwise I'll have to fly up to Manchester and picket every law firm until I find hers...

A review suggesting that English was my second language almost stopped me writing this time last year.

WTF???

Some people...

[essayel.livejournal.com]

WTF???

Oh yes. It was for about chapter seven of Black Dog. A sweet thing, probably from an American high school, wrote me a very nice review congratulating me on my pluck in tackling something in a foreign tongue and offering themselves as a beta reader. All those nasty extended sentences and unnecessary descriptive passages! And why oh why did I insist upon using words that weren't used in the US? I sent her chapter 9 and she worked her magic on it - sadly it's lost now. One thing I remember in particular was the bit where Remus wakes in the middle of the night and goes to the window. I thought a description of him nude padding across the floor to stand in the starlight drinking water was just what the doctor ordered from the POV of Remus lovers. She substituted 'walked' for padded' because 'it sounded too doggy'. She rewrote the whole chapter in Ameringlish so that people would be able to understand it. I think I may have that on a CD somewhere if you'd like to see it.

Oh, Legate Malfoy is a little confused to be on paper in pencil rather than being hammered out on a keyboard as usual but on the whole, bearing in mind some of the things I'm going to do to him, he's being very co-operative.

*dies* (well, doggy-doggy-dies...)

[shezan.livejournal.com]

OMG this is so KEWL 4U!

(Trying hard for the right AOL note.)

Oh, this sounds hysterical. I'd love to se it, and I'd advise you to send it to AJH to cheer her up. D'you realise there's a very good possibility this woman is now an editor for the Omaha Women's Gazette? Or - gasp - Sugarquill?

(How come this depressed you even for one fraction of a second? It's too, too funny for words. or, as darling Talleyrand used to say, "There is no pleasure more exquisite than to be taken for an imbecile by a dunce.")

What is happening to your keyboard Legate Malfoy? I'm absolutely fond of him. I'm dreaming of beautiful young men for him. *eg*

Re: *dies* (well, doggy-doggy-dies...)

[essayel.livejournal.com]

At present Legate Malfoy is taking second place to young Draco in the Spirit Knife. Did you see Sam's comment about him being rather effeminate? That sort of happened as soon as I put a cigarette in his hand and I decided to go with it. Harry is all square shouldered and butch in his stance so I thought that I's allow Draco to pose a bit. He gets to do some tough stuff later in the story so he can afford to camp it up a bit at this stage!