Yes, I did write a story for Fandom for Preemies. It’s called The Gift and it’s the story of Mercy Brown meeting Edward Cullen. It takes place within the world of Osa Bella, and happens about 40 years before Edward meets Bella. It’s really erotic, so for those of you who can’t deal with Edward being with someone besides Bella, this is not the story for you!  Damn, I really hope the Fandom for Preemies folks don’t mind. And if they do, well, I suppose they can cut it, right? I mean nobody said don’t write erotica for this thing.

If you want to read it, on November 1 hit the Fandom for Preemies website. They will point you to their March of Dimes band, where you can donate. Please wait to donate until after 11/1 so they can keep track of you and get you the story compilation. There are 125 authors who have contributed to this thing, including Texas Katherine, Suzspetals and  AGirlReckoning, so for five bucks (the minimum donation–please feel free to donate more), it’s a deal. Plus you get to support the March of Dimes, and who doesn’t want to do that?

The Gift is an excerpt from a much longer Mercy Brown story that I’m calling Heartless right now, that involves a Boston witch, a row with a coven of vampires from Portland Maine and possibly some vampire pirates (you knew I was going there eventually, right? RIGHT? Because seriously, VAMPIRATES. Somebody just has to do it. It may as well be me.) Heartless may or may not ever be completed and published. Right now I’m thinking, yes but then I have to get through National Novel Writing Month in one piece, write the FGB  EPOV and who knows where my highly distractable mind will be by then? But I’ve got a good 12,ooo word start on Heartless, and that’s not chump change, right? If you guys really want to read it, I may have to go ahead and get it written.

But until then, have a taste of The Gift (below) and please consider donating generously to the March of Dimes on 11/1.

Bear hugs and Vampire kisses,

Myg

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The Gift – Teaser
“Mercy Brown, the last American vampire,” he said. “I already knew your story—you’re a legend.”

Every vampire knew that legend, and many humans knew it too. In an attempt to save my brother from the consumption that nearly killed me in 1892, my body had been exhumed from its grave, my heart cut out of me and then burned, the ashes fed to my poor, dying brother.

“How did they manage to get your heart out of you?” he said. “If you don’t mind me asking.”

“It involved a witch from Boston and a 14th century dagger,” I said, shaking off the memory. “It was very unpleasant.”

“I’m sorry,” he said.

“Oh, that’s okay,” I said, as cavalier as I could.

What did displease me was that  Edward heard my thoughts about the small heart engraving etched into my breast by that Boston witch when I tried to cut a deal to get my heart back. That was a story I would have rather kept private.

“So without your physical heart, as dead as it was, you still couldn’t feel love?” he asked.

“Cannot,” I corrected.

“So you’ve never been in love?” Edward asked. “Not even as a human?”

“Love is what drove my sire to rob me of my right to heaven,” I said. “I never even knew the old ghoul loved me until he came to me on my deathbed. I’ve no use for love. I have music, and that’s enough.”

“I’m not sure I believe you,” he said. “Your songs are full of romance.”

“That’s different,” I said. “I can imagine it, I just can’t feel it.”

“You’ve never had a mate in this life then?”

“I have no intentions of being tied down.” But soon as I said it, the vision of being tied up by Edward flashed in my mind and I smirked in spite of myself.

“Liar,” he said and then growled in my ear, “Had you shown me earlier your tastes I would have come prepared.”

“So you’re that kind of vampire,” I said.

“Next time,” he said. “You will see exactly what kind of vampire I am.”

Have you finished reading Osa Bella and want to know what’s next? If so, you’ve come to the right blog post, because I’m about to tell you!

(If you’re new here, welcome! Hope you enjoy the ride. You can get .pdfs of all the chapters by clicking the “Chapter Index” tab above, or by clicking the “fanfiction.net” tab above, which takes you to my profile (scroll down for Osa Bella).

First of all, we have the Fandom Gives Back, donations to Alex’s Lemonade Stand, Edward Point of View Outtake:

And the winner is………….Chapter 21! This outtake will begin this at the end of Chapter 20, and go through the end of Chapter 21. Let me just say, I am very excited to write this. I’ve been thinking about it for months now, to be honest, so I’m glad this is what the majority ruled on! (And PS? I voted for this one.) As for the other choices, there may be other fundraisers that I may pull those for, and you know I’ll let you know if that happens.

Speaking of which, I am going to write a Mercy Brown fic for Fandom for Preemies.

Now I’m saying this as I have just one short week to write and have it beta’d, so hell, now I’m nervous. But I really need to write this fic because my own sons were born 5 weeks early due to pre-eclampsia, and I was in and out of the hospital multiple times from 26 weeks on due to contractions. I was very blessed that my kids, while born early and small, were perfectly healthy.  And here they are today:

Their good health is due in large part due to the advances in medical science promoted by the March of Dimes, the recipient of the proceeds from this auction.

My contribution to Fandom for Preemies Compilation will be the story of Mercy Brown meeting Edward Cullen. This takes place in the 1970s, in Maine, decades before Edward meets Bella. I recognize that this fic won’t be to everyone’s taste, but it has been knocking around in my head for a few weeks, so I have to write it. I trust my muse, what can I say?

Even if this fic isn’t to your taste, you should still donate because there are tons of great writers 0n the bill, including my own good pal and beta, TexasKatherine (of Going Down), SuzsPetals (of The Family Business), AGirlReckoning (Red Letter Year),  Holly1980 (Keeping the Faith and the Sovereign Six) and wow – just so many more.

So I hope you’ll consider it! Donations start in November.

As soon as that’s done, I am going to write the FGB EPOV outtake. I may – or honestly, may not – get this done before 11/1. If I don’t get it done by 11/1, it won’t be done until December, and I’m very sorry about this. But the reason is, I’m going to be participating in National Novel Writing Month (with a bunch of you, right? RIGHT?) and I won’t have time to write it in November. So I am going to bust my ass to get it done before 11/1. But it can’t suck, so I can’t rush it just to get it done by then. I will keep those of you on Team Osa Bella in the loop via twitter (follow me @Myg). If you’re not on Team Osa Bella but would like to get your hands on the EPOV, please contact me at the email listed under the Contact tab above. We’ll talk.

And then there’s an epilogue, which is half way through the very first draft. That’s going to be finished sometime after the EPOV. I apologize, but with a job, two kids, and a husband, and everything else? That’s the best I can do on a timeframe right now.

Once the epilogue is done, I will be compiling the entire thing, including the outtakes, the playlists and some other extra goodies into hardbound copies for the FGB Auction winner (I’m looking at you, Anna_Faze), and our door prize winner from the FOOOORRRKKKS Twitardedcon 2010. Some of you have asked how you can get a copy of the bound book. The truth is, I don’t think I can sell these legally if I do more than a couple of hard bound copies for charity. That said, I will probably offer them again for auction in future FGB fundraisers.

Are you an Osa Bella reader on Twitter? Holla so I can folla!

xo

Myg

This is a reposting of my last author’s note at Twitarded from last weekend. The final chapters of Osa Bella were posted from Forks, Washington, and I can’t tell you how awesome that was.

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If you do something with all your heart, it will change you. I don’t care what it is. Writing, working, raising kids, reading, falling in love, following a blog, planning a trip, meeting online friends in a faraway place for a weekend for no other reason than the fact that you know it’s going to be awesome, you know it’s going to be an experience you’ll remember the rest of your days—what I’m trying to tell you all is that I’m not the same Myg I was before Twilight, before Osa Bella, before all of you.

So thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the love and enthusiasm you have given Osa Bella and the encouragement you’ve given me. In case you are wondering if it makes an impact, please know that it absofuckinglutely does. I wouldn’t be posting this from Forks if it wasn’t for all of you. And Forks is a long, long way from Jersey, folks.
Osa Bella would be a whimper, a suggestion of what you’ve read if not for the love and attention and dedication of a whole team of people, so please put your hands together, first and foremost for SnarkierThanYou, without whom Osa Bella simply would not exist. STY was my seductress, she has been my muse, my cheerleader, and my mentor. She was the one who got me to read Twilight, she was the first person to ever lay eyes on Osa Bella and she was the one who insisted I share it with the world. I can’t post a single word of this without her approval. I love you, STY. I cannot believe it took Twilight for us to figure out that we had to be much, much closer friends, but I will always be grateful we got here. (And same goes for that little punk, Jenny Jerkface, who lives down the damned street for me and who I never even met until New Moon was in the theaters.)

STY, Jenny Jerkface and Latchkey Wife gave Osa Bella her first true home and her best, most loving, supportive and fun audience right here at Twitarded. Thank you forever and ever, ladies. Mr. Myg and I always say, no matter how many readers we get anywhere, our best readers are right here. I could do little but write for you all the rest of my days and be a very happy Myg.

The sweet VitaminR70 is my location consultant and has read every word of this—multiple times, people! She’s held my hand through many renditions and has been unfailingly enthusiastic every step of the way.

TexasKatherine, well, you all know how awesome she is, but did you know she’s also an amazing beta? I roped her into this half way through and she is Mr. Myg’s tag team pal on the snarky beat-downs in google docs. All done with love, of course, she is relentless in her pursuit of purging the suck out of my early drafts (and there’s plenty of suckage in those words, and not the good kind). I always say if your betas don’t kick your ass, fire them. Thank you so much, TK. I can’t write another word without you. Sorry.

Later in the game, Gkkstitch found herself with a little free time after Lolashoes wrapped This Hungry World and I abducted her into the Osa Bella beta vortex. She has read and re-read and re-read again the last several chapters of this story and her contributions have also been ass kicking in the best of ways. Thanks for jumping into the game and helping to bring this ship into port, bb.

At the very end of re-writing this, I had a bit of a melt down and really needed a fresh pair of eyes. I slipped a rough draft of the last four chapters to Lolashoes for some hand holding and she was kind enough to read and give virtual cuddles and hugs and tell me it was all going to be okay. Thank you so much, Lo. Some of you may have noticed that Osa Bella has picked up a few more readers since we started out here at Twitarded. Lolashoes is largely responsible for that with her twitter endorsements and RTs and the interview she did with me for Peas and Carrots. She’s probably the sweetest person I’ve never met and I may have been inspired to write some femme slash in her honor, no wait, that actually happened.

You know I can’t wrap this without a proper shout out to Mr. Myg, who right now is back in New Jersey, single-parenting my 20 month old twin boys so I could  get my crazy ass on a plane to Seattle and hook up with a bunch of you out here in the promised land. What the hell kind of husband would do that? An incredibly generous, supportive, and insane one. Well, Mr. Myg is pretty much the antithesis of insane, but he knows what’s important and when this trip came up, and he said, “Myg, you have to go.”

You also know how hard he’s kicked my ass in the editing department, or rather you may not since you’re not allowed to read any Osa Bella that hasn’t been through the Mr. Myg filter. The man knows how to write, folks. If you think Osa Bella is at all well-written, thank him because he made it so. And for those of you who love Osa Bella’s Edward? All I can say is, he takes lessons in awesomeness from Mr. Myg.

Now, please grab your sniffs because I need to make a special dedication.

Those of you who were around these parts for Fandom Gives Back already know that I lost my kid sister this year to cancer. What you may not realize is that Osa Bella is what I did to cope with my grief. I started writing it in the final stages of her illness and became obsessed with it after she died. I guess I was trying to escape the pain, find some respite, which I got plenty of right here reading Twitarded every day. What I began to realize was that Bella’s struggle in Osa Bella was my way of coming to terms, yet again, with the fuckawful certainty of death and the pain of loss and figuring out how you just fucking go on and live and find joy in your life after that. I did figure it out, again, and I have to tell you, you all were a very big part of that path for me.

Anyway, I’d like to specially dedicate Osa Bella to Amanda, my kid sister. Kid, I don’t know where you are or if you can hear me, but if so, please do NOT, for the love of God, let Dad find out about some of the shit that goes on in Chapters 21, 24, 25, 26—anyway, you get the idea. Your baby B told me she’s going as Bella for Halloween this year and I have to dress the Myglets as vampires. Mr. Myg gave the big eye roll over that, but you know he can never say no to B. Since she’s never even seen the movie (I promise to show it to her when she’s older), I am just going to assume that’s your way of telling me you’re still here and you’ve got my back. I want you to know I’m still here and I’ve got yours, too. And I’ll damn well make sure B has just the right accessories, all the way from Ffffffooooorrrrrkkkkssss, to make her the best 8 year old Bella ever.

Now, grab the sniffs, clean your shit up. We’ve got a story to finish.

When we last left our badass bear hero Bella and her now second ex-fiance, the dreamy sailor Edward, they’d learned that some dreadful tragedy worthy of a National Geographic cover had gone down in the wake of Bella’s great escape from the beach at La Push. The bears had swam out to follow her, and they couldn’t be turned back. They were drowning out there (and shit, when I went to La Push on Thursday and stared out at the ocean? I could see the heads of black bears struggling in the water and I nearly doubled over—no lie. It sucks, sometimes, to have an overactive imagination). Anyway, Bella and Edward made the very difficult choice to turn Reckoner around and go back. Last I heard, Jake asked Bella to marry him to keep her from being dragged off to Canada by the bears, which I personally think was totally kickass of him under the circumstances, and Bella accepted, but only because Edward asked her to. See, Edward knows Jake will keep her safe, and this he needs more than he needs anything else. Word has it Edward found his way to Jake’s house and was waiting to see Bella one last time.

I wonder how that’s going to go down.

So, this is it, guys. Well, okay, we’ve got a couple of outtakes to discuss and I think there’s an epi brewing too. But this is the real end. The place it was all headed. The answers to all the questions. They’re here.

Let’s do this thing.

Love,
Myg
Forks, WA
October 2, 2010

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And, here are the final pdfs of Osa Bella:

Osa Bella Final 33

Osa Bella Final 34

Osa Bella Final 35-36

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There’s an epilogue coming, and we have a few outtake ideas to discuss for Fandom Gives Back.  Stay tuned!

Holy shit, I really suck at updating this blog. I’m really sorry about that. Let me just reiterate, I update every week (about) at Twitarded and at fanfiction.net, so if you are trying to follow this story from here, don’t bother. This is just the permanent home for the pdf files and some other extras I swear I’m going to put here sooner or later. I have tons of music to catch you all up on, I wrote a Mercy Brown one shot recently, and then there will be funny stories, emails, pictures of Little People staged in scenes. But right now I just don’t have time for all that. So sorry.

Here are the latest chapters in pdf form:

Osa Bella Final 30

Osa Bella Final 31

Osa Bella Final 32

Okay then? Happy reading and until next time.