August 2004 Issue 1
Hello Beatle fans!
Welcome to the very first
Beatles Fan Fiction Directory Newsletter! Thank you very much for joining, I
was afraid when I set it up I wouldnÕt get any replies but IÕve had quite a few
so IÕm over the moon! RightÉ on with the show!
In this issue:
á New Stories
á New Authors
á Updates
á Other News
á Story of the month!
á Other Notices
NEW STORIES
Well, seeming as this is
the first newsletter and the website is only just about six weeks old, they are
all new stories! And what a lot of them there are! At the moment we have
1000000000 stories, of which 1000000 are actually being hosted at the
directory. This is great news for all us Beatles fan fiction readers as I hope
there will be something for everybody and hopefully you wonÕt have read them
all (yet!)
Next month this section of
the newsletter will list the stories added to the directory in August.
NEW AUTHORS
Again, theyÕre all new
authors! Well, to me anyway. Some of the authors featured on the directory have
been writing for years! Next month IÕll list the new authors who have joined
the directory here, but in the meantime, can I draw the attention of all the
existing authors to your AuthorÕs Pages. You should all have one and you can
find it through the directory by searching By Author.
On these pages at the
moment is just a list of the stories each author has listed in the directory,
but this is really an opportunity to promote yourselves, your stories, websites
or whatever else!
What I would like to put
up, with a little help from my friends, would be a nice little profile of each
author. This is really up to the individual author, as I need you to do all the
donkey work IÕm afraid. It could just be as little as a link to your homepage
to a massive personnal profile!
The sort of thing I am
really aiming for would be a picture or image of some sort (it doesnÕt have to
be of you!) a short blurb about yourself and/or your stories and then the rest
is up to you! You could put up something about your website or favourite Beatle
or anything else you like. (No profit making websites, though please, with the
possible exception of the flogging of Beatles Fan Fiction books!)
This, I think would be
quite good for our hosted authors as you lot donÕt really get much chance to
promote your stories otherwise. If youÕre interested or have any ideas please
contact me at Beatlesfanfics@aol.com
Updates
Stories updated in July
were:
á Is There Anybody Going To Listen To My Story by Nessa.
New
Chapter added.
What would you do if you could read John
Lennon's diary? This is a look at what it might look like if the real thing was
actually published.
Starring: John
Genre: Actuality
Other News
When IÕm 64!
As IÕm sure you all know,
Ringo was 64 on the 7th of July! Happy Birthday Ringo!
All together nowÉ ŌWhen
I get older, loosing my hairÉĶ
Save RingoÕs House!
Rather aptly as it was
RingoÕs birthday last monthÉ IÕm running a petition to Ôsave RingoÕs houseÕ at
the moment. Liverpool council is considering a rejuvenation of the place in the
Dingle where Ringo was born. Unfortunatly this would mean the demolition of
number 9, Madryn Street as well. The decision over the demolition will be made
soon (ŌThe end of summerĶ is the only official date I can find!) and the
National Trust, who own the childhood homes of John and Paul have already said
they are not interested in aquiring RingoÕs too. So I set up this petition for
the National Trust so that they might see how many people would be interested
in preserveing and visiting Madryn Street as a building of British Heritage.
IÕve had over a thousand
signatures which is fab, but a few more canÕt hurt so please sign it too if you
havenÕt already! You can find it at
But hurry as IÕm posting it
off in just over a week! (You can sign after that, itÕll still be there but the
version posted to the National Trust wonÕt contain your signature.)
IÕm sorry but I had to put
this in! At the end of the month will be Beatleweek in Liverpool and IÕm going!
Yey! IÕve been excited about it for about two months already so I will be
knackered by the time I get there!
If thereÕs anybody going
let me know and then I can say hello!
Story of the Month
This months, and the first ever, story of the month is
Other Notices
1. WANTED!
Requests for two stories
this monthÉ
á The Witnesses by Ghost Girl
A
story set in New York where Ringo and John witness a murder. There is an 11
chapter version posted at Soupfiction.net and there used to be a 18 chapter
version posted within a private Yahoo Group (no longer there) but we are
looking for any version that isnÕt the soupfiction one, or a contact email for
Ghost Girl
á A shot in the Dark. Unknown author
A
jealous boyfriend of a Beatle fan
2. Late Newsletter
I know itÕll only be the
second issue, but I can tell you all now that IÕm very sorry, but the next
issue of this newsletter is going to be a couple of days late. As youÕll know
if you didnÕt skip the other news bit, its Beatleweek at the end of August and
I am going. I wonÕt be back til the 2nd of September, so please
expect the next issue around then. IÕll bring back some photos!
ÉAnd in The EndÉ
Thanks for joining and
reading the first newsletter from the Beatles Fan Fiction Directory!
The email for story
submissions, story of the month nominations, wanted listings and pretty much
everything else is beatlesfanfics@aol.com
I was also considering
putting a kind of Readers Letters bit in the newsletter so let me know what you
think of that, or any other suggestions you might have.
You can view the Directory
at www.angelfire.com/band2/beatlesfanfiction
If you want to unsubscribe
from the newsletter please send an email to beatlesfanfics@aol.com with LEAVE in the subject line.
Love One Another .
Peace, Love and Beatles,
Lindsey.
ÉThe Love you take, is equal to the Love you make.
