February 2014 Archives

Julie Mannell bears her Red Cross Peace commendation as a humbling reminder of her precocious time in gothic southern Ontario, a tradition she shares with recent Nobel Laureate Alice Munro, whose grandstand started in the minnows of a regional hub. Julie is noted for having worked her way through a four-year scholarship and a string of auxiliary jobs. Fonthill, overlooking the Welland River, is a township located in the heart of the Niagara Region of Ontario. She describes the region as one of marked beauty, filled with pluggable character. Inspiration, as it were, is the oft forgotten faculty of the writer. Be that as it may, moving to Montreal was a logical step for a burgeoning writer.

"Fanfiction is when someone takes either the story or characters (or both) of a certain piece of work, whether it be a novel, tv show, movie, etc, and create their own story based on it." - Urban Dictionary

In conjuction with an author profile on Kathy Reichs, I decided that interviewing Bones fanfiction authors would make for an interesting segue.The following interview with Col3725 is the first, in what I hope will be a series of three interviews - all of which explore the world of fanfiction, as well as the opinions and experiences of these fanfiction authors. Col3725 has been writing fanfiction since 2011, and has written no less than twenty-eight stories, both for the Bones and the Private Practice fandom. Click on Col3725's penname to view her fanfiction.net author profile.