At 07:17 AM 2/22/98 -0500, Doug Murphy wrote:

Ahh, good ole' BGC... The first *real* anime I ever saw, and still my 
favorite.  I hadn't read any BGC fanfiction lately, but when I saw the 
name Jeanne Hedge stamped on the from field of a BGC fanfic I knew it 
was going worth my reading time.  I went to the fridge and returned to 
my cluttered desk with an ice cold root beer, and prepared to enjoy myself.

Whoa! I'm glad my part was able to live up to your high expectations!

But what's this? Ahh, Andy Skuse worked on this one too?  Can't argue 
with that either.  

Believe me, I've tried.  You don't want to  <ducking objects thrown by Andy>

Okay, time to read on. 

<Swap back to conversational mode>

I really enjoyed Into The Shadows.  It was really 'artful', bordering on 
abstract at some points, and that gave the story a feeling of atmosphere 
that worked out better than I would have expected of lesser authors.  I 
looked through your list of pre-readers, and although I have not read 
fiction by everyone who pre-read, from the people I am familiar with you 
had an all-star team assembled. 

It *was* an all-star team, and they did great work for us. I think most of
them are on this list. A couple I'm pretty sure aren't have pretty good
followings in BGC fic circles.  Shawn Hagen is the fellow who wrote the
4-story BGC series, "No Armor Against Fate" (Domino Effect [aka Anima],
Flash Powder, Eye of the Storm, Fearful Symmetry). CJ Scott (aka "The Pig")
is perhaps better known by his mailing address: Innpchan@aol.com. He wrote
"Yearnings", "Dance of Armor", "Remembrance Day", and is working on their
follow-up, "Arms and the Maiden".

Thanks for writing Into the Shadows, you two, you did a great job.  The 
alternating first-person perspective was totally new to me, but it only 
took a few seconds to get used to, and you made clear who "I" was very 
quickly after shifting perspectives.  I liked it.

Nice to hear it worked for you.  Thanks :)

I've managed to set myself on a weird little quest of becoming one of the 
best fanfic authors around.  It's a good thing there are people out there 
to let me know I've got a way to go.  Good BGC fanfiction is no accident.

Great fic.

Thank you very much indeed.  ^_^





Jeanne Hedge


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