NEWS NEWS NEWS

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Your True Colors is nominated for Original Character Awards in two categories. Best RPF and Best Wishful Thinking. VOTING IS ON!!! So if you'd like you can vote for Annie and Kiddo HERE.

2.

You can also show some love for "Little Green and Easybella", my Cherry Exchange entry. VOTING IS ON!!! (end Dec 15th). If you like Kiddo, you will LOVE Little Green, I promise... if you want to give the sweet boy your vote, you can do it HERE.

3.

The Southern Fan Fiction Review is hosting lovely lemonicious one shots by different talented and some really popular authors for each day of December until Christmas. The only requirements for the writers were 1. Christmas, 2. Edward, 3. Penetration... no matter who penetrates who, LOL!

Mine will be up on Dec 8th there (as well as on ffnet, since the SFFR replaces them after one day to feature the next). Here's a teaser banner ;-)

4.

I wrote a sweet little fun one shot, together with my bestie Uhyesplease, for the I'm With The Band contest. And guess what? WE WON!! Judges Pick!! Unanimously!!! *dances*

The titel is "Good Vibrations". Here's the banner I made for it...

and here's the winning banner we received. I hope you enjoy... :)

Love you guys!!!! MWAH, Betti

...and now the moon...

(UPDATE 8/9/2010: Andnowthemoon's ffnet pages are currently unavailable, but will return soon. I'll let you know then!)

"have you noticed you can make the name renesmee from the letters in stephenie meyer? you're left with hepity and piyeth. imagine if renesmee had had sisters..."

The above is the, uhm... 'summary' of the one-shot Gossip Gurl by the amazingly talented andnowthemoon, who has written 49 (!) stories for Twilight, Star Trek: 2009, and Merlin - and that is only under THIS penname. (yep - there are others)

I just noticed that most of her other stories' summaries just say: "Please read." I strongly second that!! STRONGLY!!!

PLEASE READ!

Never, NEVER AGAIN, do I want to hear anyone whine about what fic to read next, or about desperately needing recc's. Just go to this girl's profile and read away.

I'll just recommend 2 out of 49 here, k?

The Life Stealer

One-shot written for the Black Balloon Contest.

A masterpiece of angst, beautifully written. You will feel it.... all of it - the love, the joy, the fear, the loss... don't be scared to let this story go under your skin and take you back to when you were young and ruled by your heart.

Baby You Can Drive My Car

Entertaining AH Bella x Edward multi-chapter fic,

with some fuckhawt Jasper thrown in for good measurement. 19 chapters so far, easy to catch up – and you won't be disappointed by naugty Popstar Bella and astute SweetWard. And yeah, it's about music.

Speaking of...

Andnowthemoon is a songwriter/musician/singer too!!!

And though that talent of hers seems to run a bit under the radar (internet-wise, at least), I'm happy to make her shine here on my blog with the utterly enchanting song "Your Own Rainbow". She wrote it, inspired by my own story "Your True Colors" (GASP! IKR?? How lucky am I???), and recorded it and sent it to me.

How could I not make a video for it to show andnowthemoon's awesomeness??

And psssst... you might find some more of her original songs and recordings on her myspace, just saying... yes she is girltaminglions, too. Also on twitter...

End of pimpage,

Fan Fiction, Song, Vid, Self Pimpage

I posted this little gem on my YTC blog already, but since not all my visitors here know about it, I put it here too.

So... if you haven't read Your True Colors, the Twilight fan fic by now, maybe this sweet collection of hot chapter illustrations will allure you. (Rated M, mature readers only!)

The song that goes with it is a duet,

sung by my beloved beta Uhyesplease and humble me.

It was made with just our PC's and eMail. We've never met in person by now. Magic? Yes, a little magic... Enjoy!

Barterworks Artworks Ficworks Knitworks

I happily announce two completed 

Button Guru Barterings.

Orchestral break for bartering #1: 

The Guru's 'opponent' was AzureEyedI who wanted a banner and an animated button for her awesome o/s "Die Verlorenen" (The Lost). Sounds German, you say? It is! Meet 27-year-old medical student Edward and his wife in Berlin... check out her awesome entry for the 'Roaring Twenties One Shot Contest', leave her some love! Below is what the Guru made for her.

An artsy but smexy Banner 

in the vibe of the 20's.

And a purdy blinkyblinky

story button!

 

<<< And this is what I got!!!

AzureEyedI is not only writing 

fan fic, she's got seriously 

mad knitting skillz!

It's a hat, folks!!

Yikes! I love it!

Orchestral break for bartering #2: 

This time it was the Guru' vs Becky Boodles who wanted a banner for her DogWard fan fiction "And Then You". She wasn't sure what to offer but said she'd like to write something. So I asked her to write an outtake of sorts of my fic "Your True Colors", in the POV of one of my minor characters. She chose Annie's boss, Beatrice a.k.a. Esme, and sent her to a fuckhawt meeting with Carlysle (the doctor, not the budgie! LOL)   

Below is what the Guru made for her.

And this is what I got: 

"The doctor will see you now" by Becky Boodles

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P.S.: 

"Your True Colors" is nominated at the "Indie Twific Awards" in the category "all human story that knocks you off your feet". 

Just saying.... (gulps)... Gah!!

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Want to barter with the Button Guru too? 

Here are the RULES:

1. If you have something I might want, we can bargain.The only condition not negotiable is: It has to be something money can't buy. Which means, you won't get a button or banner for a Twilight merch, for instance. People have tried to barter with things that are only available in the US, but the Button Guru is a bitch when it comes to bartering.

2. Usually it would be something someone does, or a selfmade thing. If I don't know anything about you, I can not suggest anything myself. It depends on what you can do or have or... dunno. So if you want to barter, you would either have to come up with suggestions yourself, or tell me something about your talents, hobbies etc., so that I can challenge you.

3. The Button Guru never asks for a mission impossible! He just loves to challenge peoples' inspiriation. If someone isn't much of an artist but can maybe knit or bake - he might be happy with a pair of wrist-warmers or yummy coookies.

That's pretty much it. I love bartering, I love creative ideas and being surprised with things...

The Lemon Sisters pulled my secret

Don't miss today's  MmmmMonday blogpost at The Lemon Sisters - the crazy girls interviewed me via skype and pulled all my secrets, dammit!

And while you're there - and just in case you like hot fan fic - hit the follow button to become a regular reader of the fabulous Lemon Sisters. 

They know best!!

So yes, the peekaboo girl here is me - Betti Gefecht a.k.a the Button Guru, a.k.a. the physical host of Artsie & Fanny, a.k.a the shy fan fic writer, known as...???

Please don't throw rotten tomatoes at me - I clearly prefer juicy lemons. Thanks!