New Banner

So, I'm trying something, not sure if it will work, but it's worth a go, eh? Anyway, thanks to the WONDERFUL recommendation by GinnyWeasleyPotter (you rule!), smile2006, aka smile06 has made me a banner and since you guys won't be able to see until after January 6 anyhow, I'm posting it here. REMEMBER: I DID NOT MAKE THIS BANNER AND DO NOT CLAIM IT. THE CREDIT GOES TO THE WONDERFUL, TALENTED SMILE06 AND NOT ME. I'M NOT THIS TALENTED!!!

Anyway, here I'm testing...hold your breathes for me...





IT WORKED!!! She couldn't decide which one, which one do you guys think is best? If you like it, do me a favor, go to TDA, and "Specific Author" request the wonderful, fantabulous SMILE06!!!

Update time!!!

So...sorry it's been so long. I was waiting for my new banner to be made and since I'm not sure when that will be, I guess I'm posting now.

STORY NEWS

"Daughter of Darkness" So, the first chapter is up-yea!!! I'm almost done with the 2nd, but I'm not sure how to end it. The banner is also being made. At this point, Adriana seems like a Mary Sue, but she is really just an innocent and happy girl in the first chapter (not prologue)-she gets better later on, I promise! ;-)

Untitled R/Hr One-Shot I'm almost done with this and quite proud of it. It will probably be the first thing I enter into validation after the validators come back (the times I wish I was a trusted author! :-(). I need a title for it and need to write the ending, but besides that, I'm pretty well into it. Like I said, I'm really proud, so keep a watchout for it!

I'm have two ideas for humors fic one-shots that I'll probably post inbetween one or two chapters that are posted for "Daughter of Darkness". I can't wait till that banner is made too! I have a program that can make them, but I need to figure it out before I start first. So, until then, I have to request them. If you can make banners, check out my thread- http://the-dark-arts.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=15116. Right now, it says it's for Alohomora, but I'm going to open it up for others too!

FORUMS

Please feel free to vote in my poll (http://www.fictioncentral.net/hpforum/index.php?showtopic=19108), read and ask me questions in my author's page (http://www.fictioncentral.net/hpforum/index.php?showtopic=19057&st=0&p=262568&#entry262568) and take my challenge (http://www.fictioncentral.net/hpforum/index.php?showtopic=19137). Yea!!! My challenge is getting takers, so I'm really happy about that. Maybe I'll think of a new one soon. I can't wait till everyone who is taking it posts their story! Probably in a while, but still. :-)

Anyway, that's all, you guys. Keep a look out for updates and thanks for reading! Happy Holidays, if you don't hear from me before them. It's that time of year! :D

P.S. If anyone doesn't know, I have a secret for how to tell if bookmarked stories are updated without looking through them all. Tell me if you know or want to!

News and More News

So, I finally decided to do my companion to "No One Mourns the Wicked" and the prologue is validating. STILL! Oh well. MAYBE if I'm LUCKY it will be up soon-HOPEFULLY! (I don't think there's anything in there that should be rejected, but maybe I'm wrong?)

On the bright side, I've been getting more reviews for "Her Father's Gift". I must have gotten about 3 this weekend, so it's a big surprise! I updated the A/N recently, so it's at the top of my story list, even though it was my first published fanfic (you do NOT want to see the fanfics I wrote when I was little. ***shudder***. There was this one where Ginny was in the middle of Ron and Hermione and then Ron ran away and he met Fleur doing-something-or-other on this train and then-I think anyway-Krum turned out to be evil and Ron visited Charlie and Ron and Hermione got together, the end. It was so bad, I'm not going to even put it up for comic purposes! Then, there was this other told through lettters from Ginny and Harry...I must have been seven when I wrote it, it might have possibly been my first one...and I used to think about them before I fell asleep...)I completely ignored the H/G pairing until I read HBP! R/Hr is still my favorite-H/G my second favorite. Someday, I'll write a nice, fluffy R/Hr, because it's sad I have none of those even though they're my favorite pairing. Or not-maybe I'll make it dark and fluffy later, that might be better. Did you know I used to be a CHO/Harry shipper at the very beginning? Probably because they were the ONLY ship I knew of-but I've always been R/Hr! Yea! I'm sorry I'm getting TOTALLY off-topic. The point is, reviews rule. Keep them up! I'll love you forever if you do.

Also, if anyone would like to receive updates on my stories and new entries, please PM me on the forums and I'll add you to my list and PM you whenever there's a new one. Plus, I'll add you to my friends' list! I think this would be a cool way to do it, providing the forums allows it. Maybe I'll put something on my forum and HPFF profile too about this too, because as far as I know, I have only one reader who has read my blog thus far-at least one who comments! :D If you leave an anonymous one, make sure to tell me who it is, okay? I wish I could see how many people are reading this!

Anyway, yeah, I'll probably write another entry soon when the first chapter of "Daughter of Darkness" (my title) validates.

Random fact: on Friday night, I had tea and burned my tongue because I forgot to use a spoon and now I burned my tongue AGAIN and it's only Sunday. Ugh...don't you just HATE that? ;-(

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOX, Mara (I haven't closed like this since my first entry, have I?)