Fanlibs, An Agreement Among Gentlemen by Chris Owen

I'm not going to say much as many other people have said it better than I ever could, but you can't go wrong by going to gehayi's LJ and reading the assorted links which will lead you to others, but I will add this, aimed at my fellow EX-ficcers.

Fanlibs TOS say that they reserve the right to EDIT your fic. They also reserve the right to use your fic in ANY WAY.

So stay away from the place (not that you needed telling) and tell your friends to stay away. They can, with those two little rights, file the serial numbers off your hard written Snape fic and sell it on as an original piece, and the only person who has any right to do THAT - is YOU. The whole venture stinks and I don't wish them any success with it. I'm sure that most of my flist are old and onery enough to know a scam artist when it smiles at them, but there are younger, more naive ficcers who aren't. And that's who Fanlibs are going to make millions on.

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On a happier note: Happy Birthday ataniell93! Have a great day, hun!

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Review of "An Agreement Among Gentlemen" by Chris Owen

First Impressions: I liked it. There were many things to like. *ticks off* Characters, the writing, the readability, and RED HOT SEX. I'll say this upfront that Owen makes me jealous as his/her sex scenes are everything that I like to read, sensuous and steaming without being coarse in any way. I did have a few problems with it, however.

( Spoilers.. the good and the annoying )

Not quite the Midas Touch.

argh!

I have some sort of strange disease, it's sort of like The Midas Touch but gay. What I touch turns gay! This bodes well for Pirates - TOMORROW!!

*cough*

Anyway - I'm at the library a couple of weeks ago and I pick up a book with a pair of angels wings on the cover called The Vitner's Luck



and I read the recs from such worthies as the Guardian and The Times. I have a mild flush of envy (always happens) but get the book anyway, even though the blurb doesn't grab me much .

But it's now turned slashy. And not just slashy, actually gay.

I'm a gay magnet. Or I warp the universe. Or something. But yay! Literature, improving reading AND slashy angels! W00T! I win!

ETA: I've discovered that there's nothing as random as chance. When I started compiling my Big Gay List of m/m historical fiction katjak recommended Vintner's Luck back then, so THAT'S why I "randomly" pulled it off the shelf after just seeing the title. My subconcious remembered that it was a slashy book. *hugs my subconcious*!!!