REQUEST: Looking for help in starting up a crossover newsletter

[jedibuttercup]

Greetings crossover fans,

I'm in the early stages of starting up a newsletter, called crossover_news, strictly for reporting crossover fiction (such as is posted at crossoverfic) and other crossover fan activities on Livejournal. I'd like to ask for your help in identifying crossover communities and individual writers to start off the reading list before I attempt to actually put it into action, and in fact for any advice anyone cares to give; I've never run a community like this before.

If the demand proves high enough once I get it going, I may need additional editors so it can be run it more than once a week, so keep that in mind. Thanks for your help!

Comments

[kerravonsen]

Well, besides this community, another obvious one is crossovers100. And of course there's also multiverse2004 (ignore the year) which is an annual crossover ficathon.

Then there's crossing_lostrp which is a role-playing community where the scenario is that it's "Lost", but with various crossover characters there as well as the "Lost" characters.

There are various other fic communities and writers which aren't necessarily crossover-oriented, but where crossovers may turn up every now and then -- I'm not sure whether you're interested in those or not.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

That's a great idea! :D

There's crossover_hp, focused on Harry Potter crossovers.

As for writers who post crossovers more or less regularly, I can think of aishuu (her writing journal is quillofferings), amewarashi (at kitsune_epics), elihice, and sam_storyteller. I post my own fics at fractal_mirrors, if you don't mind the shameless plug.

[dialinghell.livejournal.com]

Just randomly going through crossover communities looking for some to post to/join and had to comment because its a great idea. Most of the crossover communities are terribly spread out. A general archiving site (in case you haven't stumbled across it): Twisting the Hellmouth (just google it) which has thousands of Buffy crossovers (might be a good place to advertise).

My journal will have any updates I do (which is probably a shameless plug but, just fyi), and I know mhalachaiswords updates several times a week, mostly Buffy/Anita Blake/ and HP crossovers...

[dialinghell.livejournal.com]

haha... just actually looked at your user name, forget the linking Twisting the Hellmouth part *smacks self*... and hi :) can you tell I'm half asleep?

[jedibuttercup]

I hadn't heard about multiverse2004, thanks!

> There are various other fic communities and writers which aren't necessarily crossover-oriented, but where crossovers may turn up every now and then -- I'm not sure whether you're interested in those or not.

Depends on how high a percentage of crossovers tends to show up, and whether or not they get cross-posted anywhere I'd be more likely to pick them up. I'd be interested in knowing about them regardless, but they may be on an occasional link-check list rather than a reader's journal if the crossover stuff is pretty sparse.

Thanks again for your help!

[jedibuttercup]

> That's a great idea! :D

Thanks. =) I figured there had to be more readers out there like me who are very, very multi-fandom and love to see their favorite characters/worlds/etc. from different 'verses interacting.

And thanks for all the links! The more, the merrier. =)

[jedibuttercup]

> haha... just actually looked at your user name, forget the linking Twisting the Hellmouth part *smacks self*... and hi :) can you tell I'm half asleep?

Hee. I was about to say, you've posted at TtH yourself and have somehow never managed to stumble across my name? I think I'm up to something like fifth place on the story count author list now, and in the thirties by wordcount. =P

Just saw your fic-a-thon story go up over there... I'll have to read it at lunch when I have more time. And I'm quite fond of your "A Hacking Good Time", it really made me smile when I first found it. Mind if I friend your LJ? I mean, as me, not just cross_watcher?

[dialinghell.livejournal.com]

I know! Once I actually looked at the user name I was like, "I know you, fellow TtH writer!". Who is *much* more prolific than me by the way. :) And please, feel free to friend the LJ, the more the merrier. I have a pathetic friends list right now.

[kerravonsen]

I'd be interested in knowing about them regardless, but they may be on an occasional link-check list rather than a reader's journal if the crossover stuff is pretty sparse.

There's me, but I generally cross-post my crossovers to crossoverfic.

There's b7friday and b7fic but crossovers aren't that common, though they do turn up every now and then.

Oh, and I nearly forgot! There was recently a Doctor Who "choose your own companion" ficathon, which was a crossover ficathon where the Doctor takes a character from another universe as a companion. I didn't participate myself, since I'm already doing Doctor Who for crossovers100. (looks through flist trying to find link for that ficathon...) Ah, here it is: http://rheanna27.livejournal.com/55555.html
It was probably a one-off, but it's still worth noting.