Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Spook Fest is now officially open for voting!!! You may vote once a day but be sure to read all the entries and drop them a review letting them know what you thought – they worked super hard on their entries and the effort shows.

Voting poll is at the bottom of the contest page as well as at the bottom of all of the stories…

Now kick back and prepare to get scared! I recommend leaving a nightlight on…

Happy hauntings!

Hi Everyone,

This isn’t a post about a story.  It’s not really an update to my plagiarism throwdown either.

But it’s something really important that affects all of us in the fan fiction community.  When this whole thing went down with my work being stolen, I was totally adrift.  Everyone had an opinion about my rights and what I was able to do or not do, and I can tell you right now that 95% of those people–though well-intentioned–were way off base.

It really frightened me that, as creators, none of us seemed to know how to protect ourselves, should someone come along, read our stories, like what they see, and simply take it, tweak, slap it between two covers and sell it for their own gain.  Lots of people voiced that I’m not a real author since I’m “infringing” on the AB and CH copyrights.  Several said that, sure…

You will have another post/email tonight with a chapter update, but I can’t wait to share this exciting news with you all!

Over on Kittyinaz‘s facebook group, the awesome Cuinawen shared a link to two sentence horror stories that were in response to a thread on Reddit. The stories pack a surprisingly freaky punch in just two sentences and were actually rather inspiring for many of us wanting to get into the Halloween spirit. Several people decided they’d write their own one-shots based off the two sentence stories, effectively turning them into writing prompts and I decided to take that idea one step further…

So I’m pleased to announce the inaugural Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Spook Fest, a Halloween one-shot contest!!! All rules and details can be found by clicking on the banner below and visiting the contest page (located under the menu option ‘Bertie Bott: A History’)…