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AUGUST NEWSLETTER UPDATE!!!
Sorry to the people who have received this twice - I've had so many new subscribers in the last few days I thought it would be worth sending it again. Also the nominations for the First Ever BFFD Awards are now open! - Earlier than expected! Details are below and you may nominate via this link... The guidelines and prizes are explained on those pages, and more will follow in the next newsletter - surfice to say - their are real prizes up for grabs and a prize draw for nominating too - so the more you nominate, the greater chance you have to win! Three stories have all ready been nominated, so congratulations to the following....
Nominations are anonymous. You may nominate as much as you like, including your own stories. Voting for the winners will take place shortly! In the meantime, here is the original newsletter.... Hello! Welcome to the August BFFD newsletter! Some quick directory updates - New 'By Beatles' pages are now complete and displaying properly! (And there was rejoicing throughout the land of Internet Exploror users!) And next month will see the launch of the BFFD Awards - I know other sites have done this before, but as most of them appear to be dead now, I think I will have a go. The official launch will be in September but you may nominate now. You may also nominate your own story for an award (nominations are anonymous) and you can nominate as may as you like - but please limit it to one per story per person. The catagories stand at the moment as..
Email me for more details. The actual awards will be revealed soon! SPECIAL ANNOUNCMENTS! ROOFTOP SESSIONS DIGEST 4 IS NOW AVAILABLE!
The new Rooftop Sessions Digest is now available for purchase! Support Beatles fan fiction and buy one today! They make excellent and original presents for any Beatles fan, or why not treat yourself?! Featuring the finest in Beatles fan fiction, the new digest also includes stories by some BFFD writers! Just click the image to buy the book. (There is a link on the BFFD main page too, should that link not work). Credit cards and paypal are accepted and orders can be shipped all over the world. Beatles author, Garry Berman is writing a book on the experiences and memories of first generation American Beatle fans and is searching for people who may wish to contribute their thoughts. Here's a note from Garry... I am a published author, freelance writer, and lifelong Beatles fan preparing a book on how Beatlemania affected the lives of teenagers--the "original" fans--across America at that time. This book will be as much about the fans, and what it was like to get caught up in the hysteria of Beatlemania, as it will be about the Beatles themselves. If you actually attended a Beatles concert, kept a scrapbook, or watched them on "The Ed Sullivan Show," I'd like to hear your memories. If you're a bit too young to remember that period, but you know someone who lived through it, please spread the word! If you would like to help you can contact Garry at gberman2001@yahoo.com to imortalise your Beatles memories! I believe Garry has already contacted some authors about his book. Good luck! Have an announcement you want putting in this newsletter? Just drop me an email! Next newsletter is due in September, but will be late due to International Beatle Week 2005! New Stories and Updates
New Stories
Click the link above to read all the new stories. Added this month... Our Generation by Katy
An Orange For My Love by Julia Macdonell
Julia by Billie Shears *Story of the Month!*
Ringo's Banana by Kim Paterson
The Beatles in Wood Shop by Kim Paterson
The Hours and The Times by Em
Norwegian Wood by Em
Blood, Sugar, Sex and Magic: A day in the Life of Jenifer McKenzie, Girl Reporter by Em
Dancing Lessons by Walrus
The Fuzz Four by Walrus
Ten Cents by Walrus
I'm Only Sleeping by Sega
Beatleology by Sega
How They Lost Cindy by Kim Patterson
She Said, She Said by Sega
Berg, Barrett and Lennon (and Cheney!) by Sega
Do you have a story to list? If so follow the link in the side bar right away! I accept any kind of Beatles stories - so long as they are about or have the Beatles in them - and also, poetry, essays, reviews, account... anything you can think of! Don't forget to include the link in your submission! Hosting is also available. Find all the links for these stories on the Updates page, just click above! Four Vacancies Left by Soft Hearted Hana
I've Just Seen A Face by McCartney8897
I've Just Seen A Face: The Sequel by McCartney8897
The Devil in Her Heartby Lindsey Hagston
Don't forget to let me know when you update your story! COMING SOON!! - The Beatles Fan Fiction Directory Awards!Email for details! Story of the Month
This months story is the supernatural fantasy Julia by Billie Shears
Paul, Julia, and John walked in to this spacious home where the wonders of her imagination seemed to be laid out in front of her. The dreams that she had of walking in to his home, spending some time with the Beatles was coming true. "By the look on your face, you think that this is so palatial or are you star struck?" Paul said as her smile widened across her face. "I bet you sheâ??s shocked that she with the famous Beatles than anything else!" John laughed as they walked. "To tell you the truth, Iâ??m more in awe both for it being so palatial and the antiques..." She stopped at mid sentence when she noticed a mirror that hung on a wall near the room where the other Beatles were at. She set down her book on a table near the mirror and stared at it, noticing the details of the frame and the mirror. "I thought I would never see this again...." Julia whispered as her fingers delicately touched a dent. Both Paul and John exchanged weird looks at Juliaâ??s amazement with a mirror. They walked over and caught what Julia whispered which made them wonder even more why she said that. "Uh, Julia? What did you mean by â??seeing this againâ?? ? If you want to know itâ??s from somewhere in the 1600â??s." "1566 to be precise. It was shipped from Italy and then to Spain. It was given as a gift to a very wealthy aristocratic family to one of their two children, their daughter as a gift as a birthday gift. She was turning 24. And now I notice that itâ??s 400 years old. How time just flies doesnâ??t it?" "How did you know all that? Especially who first owned it and everything?" Paul asked with a bit of fear in his eyes. As usual you can read the whole of this story and an interview with the author at the Story of the Month pages at the directory. PLEASE nominate for next month! |
Directory Quick Links
Authors
Welcome to new authors Sega, Em, Billie Shears and Kim Patterson!
Readers Classifieds
Hows about a new feature as we have this bit of space here? One of my favourite things about The Beatles Book Monthly, before they cancelled it was the readers notices bits - I met some of my best Beatle friends through those ads! So lets have some here, and unlike Beatles Monthly, mine are free! Yey!
Some suggestions of things you could put in might be birthday wishes, gig annoucements, wanted notices, Beatley things you have on ebay, advertise your site, find friends and penpals, ...anything you can think of! In the meantime, here are some famous classifieds from our own John, who put these in the Mersey Beat Newspaper in 1961. RED NOSE, missed you Friday, HOT LIPS. ACCRINGTON welcomes HOT LIPS AND RED NOSE. Whistling Jock Lennon wishes to contact HOT NOSE. RED SCUNTHORPE wishes to jock HOT ACCRINGTON. Happy XMAS - Jurgen. Hello from Norman Lennon Vollmer. FROLICHE FUSSBODEN - Herr Vollmer. GOOD MORNING, Jurgrow, from George. Send yours to beatlesfanfics@tiscali.co.uk |
