FF: Season's Greetings from the Paradise List!

[Ebony]

Season's Greetings, HP4GUers and OTChatterers!

It's that most wonderful time of the year again... and the friendly 
HP_Paradise List Mods have been busy little elves conspiring in a 
certain workshop somewhere near the North Pole... conjuring up 
Christmas cookies and other holiday sweets just for you.

Some of the best in Harry Potter fanfiction uses the holidays as a 
backdrop.  What avid fanfic reader will ever forget Peter's 
alienation and angst as he watches the Marauders celebrate their last 
December together in Hyphen's classic *A Rat's Tale:  O Come All Ye 
Faithful?*  Rememeber Sirius and Cordelia's holiday wedding in Penny 
and Carole's *A Sirius Affair*?  And the agonizing Christmas Hermione 
suffered in Lori's PoU sequel, *The Show That Never Ends*? 
 
The Paradise team is pleased to announce that we will be offering 
more than three solid weeks of fanfiction delights.  In all of our 
takes of the Harry Potter universe, 'tis the season to celebrate... 
and celebrate we will.  Every single day from the Holiday Special's 
kickoff on 12/10 until Christmas, there will be a new fanfiction in 
the e-mailboxes of Paradise members. 

There will be stories by seven of your friendly List Mods:  Al, 
Ebony, Heidi, Jana, John, Viola, and Yael.  In addition, we are 
pleased to announce three guest authors whose names nearly every 
Harry Potter fanfiction reader knows:  Carole, author of *A Sirius 
Affair*.  parker, author of the "Interludes" short stories.  And 
Cassandra Claire, author of *Draco Dormiens*, *Draco Sinister*, and 
*Draco Veritas*.

In addition, there will be holiday-themed artwork by the phenomenal 
Karen McVicker and our dear friend, the widely reknowned Starling.  
We issue an open invitation for other artists to participate... if 
you have a Christmas or other holiday HP drawing, either general HP 
canon or based in one of the Paradise list stories, please send it to 
ebonyink at hotmail.com.

What can you expect?  Well, here's the schedule: 

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12/10--Al, "A Syzygy Christmas Carol"

12/11--AngieJ, "Someday at Christmas"

12/12--Viola, "Spires and Gargoyles"

12/13--parker, "This Time of Year"

12/14--Viola, "Christmas in the Ardennes" or "A Riddle Family
Christmas"

12/15--Heidi Tandy and Cassandra Claire, "A Surfeit of Christmases"

12/16--Heidi Tandy, from *Titanic Days*:  "Chanukah in Seattle"

12/17--AngieJ, "Christmas With The Weasleys, Again"

12/18--Carole, "A Sirius Christmas"

12/19--yael_pou, "Peppermint and Chocolate Christmas Cookie" 
or "Daddy Longtail"

12/20--George Weasley's Girlfriend, "Christmas in Paradise"

12/21--Wood's Keeper, "The Longest Day", from "Keeping Secrets" (from 
the Fan Author Also Known as Crazy Ivan)

12/22--Al, from Snitch!:  "Fairytale of New York"

12/23-1/1 -- Wood's Keeper, a real-time posting of the rest 
of "Keeping Secrets", one chapter a day every day until 2002.
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What do you have to do?  First, you must come join us in Paradise:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HP_Paradise ... then just sit back, 
relax, and enjoy the fanfic.  Reviews, commentary, questions, and 
crit are always welcome.

Hope to see you there!

All the best,

The HP_Paradise Author/Moderator Team
(Al, Ebony AKA AngieJ, Heidi Tandy, Jana AKA George Weasley's 
Girlfriend, John Walton AKA Wood's Keeper/Crazy Ivan, Viola, and Yael)

(P.S.  We *will* consider additional guest author submissions of 
holiday-themed fanfic!  Due to scheduling, priority will be given to 
fanfics that are spinoffs or closely related to any of our novel-
length fanfictions.  For details please contact ASAP:  
ebonyink at hotmail.com)

***NOTE:  This HP_Paradise yahoogroup special is sponsored in part by 
FictionAlley:  Fanfics of All Ships, Shapes, and Sizes!  
http://www.fictionalley.org