#bluelibrary

Elena that's amazing, congratulations!

What an achievement, I hope you feel very proud of yourself and that you're giving yourself a nice reward for all your hard work.

A: How did you come up with the title to Jingle—Holy F*ck?

I was hanging out in my kitchen, waiting for water to boil for tea in early November and I'd been vaguely thinking of doing a daily writing challenge fun Christmas fic for December, so I was considering various tropes and scribbling them down on an empty envelope. I knew I wanted to do something punny for the title, and suddenly Jingle—Holy F*ck popped into my head. Like, merry jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the—oh what the fuck it's my ex and our terrifying past!

E: If you wrote a sequel to Love Is Complicated, what would it be about?

🥺thank you! i'm sorry you were in a funk, but glad i could help in any way ❤️

okay, i actually am writing a sequel to LIC (though not soon lol, because I have a literal mountain of wips to get through before i can even consider it) and I think it's going to be their honeymoon-turned-chaotic-adventure-for-some-lost-treasure. The wide-brimmed Indiana Jones hat does make an appearance 😌and divorce is threatened accordingly. James is also Very In Love with his wife, Dr. Lily Evans, D.Phil. (and very loud about it).

Authors aren’t rich and libraries are free.

If you want to steal textbooks and the Harry Potter series, fine. But most authors live and die by their book sales.

Here’s a Guardian article about how pirated books threatens the continuation of a series and here’s a firsthand account from Maggie Stiefvater about piracy.

Libraries are good and important and FREE while still helping the author.

@bluelibrary that's so cool, did you have fun?

It was, at a point, a regular past time of mine, and it hadn't occurred to me that it should be better explained 🤦

I'm glad Everlong is still kicking around in your mind, some very distinct scenes if you're picking them out!

Thank you! 💙

hi Elena! Thanks for the ask 💞

🔁 A fic you’ve re-read several times

I don't intentionally re-read fics often, but there are a few I go back to and some that accidentally suck me into their vortex, like TLAT, Shelf Awareness or Five Ways It Could've Happened (and pretty much anything else @thequibblah has ever written).

😭 A fic that ripped your heart out (but it hurt so good)

I am forever changed by reading but he’s a little bit too far away by @firefeufuego Rosie has such a beautiful way of carefully constructing their love story with a realness that aches.

yes it does! i'm playing fast and loose with the timeline since this takes place in 2019, but canonically it was invented sometime before or during 1984-1991. I'm not moving it up at all, so assume the Wolfsbane Potion has been on the market for a while, and as there was no Voldemort led-infiltration of the Ministry, there isn't as much rampant anti-werewolf sentiment. So Remus can get access to it. :)