Pottermore!!

So, last night I got in to Pottermore finally! The email came, followed by a few hours where it kept telling me the site was too busy. THEN it showed the screen I’d seen before saying the bit about how they weren’t taking sign-ups. But that’s the screen one wants, apparently — just use the login box and it worked.

I spent the next two hours tooling around the site. You follow the plot of the books to do things like open your account at Gringotts, buy your school supplies, get your wand, and then get Sorted at Hogwarts!

I’m sure you will all be shocked, SHOCKED to learn I got Ravenclaw. Apparently my recent change to Slytherin is just a phase I’m going through or something, and I’m still a Ravenclaw at heart. :-)

My wand, alder with dragon heartstring, “surprisingly swishy!”

There is some great background stuff about wand woods and cores that I will definitely be ganking for fanfic and RPG purposes.

The best thing I’ve read so far on the site after all the wandlore stuff, though, is the background history of Minerva McGonagall. Lots of great stuff there — I won’t give it away. Just go read it when you get in!

Anyone who’s on and wants to friend me, I’m ScarletQuest204!

Mirrored from blog.ceciliatan.com.

Magic University contest and back-to-school fun, Day Two!

Day Two! I’m continuing my week of back-to-school posts in which I give away some free books and tell more about the world of Magic University. As we get ready for the release of The Poet and the Prophecy (book four in the Magic University series) I answer some questions about magic in my universe that I’ve been asked.

Q: Are there female lightning rods?
A: If you’ve read book one, you know lightning rods are rare men who can very quickly gather magical energy from the natural world around them and can create thunderclouds when they do. It’s considered a very phallic ability, but there are women with the same ability! A woman who can draw down lightning is called a “fulgora.”

Q: What’s the biggest difference between your magic and the magic in Harry Potter?
A: In my world, a wand can’t be used like a gun. In fact, most magic users don’t use wands at all, except during specific rituals. I’m hard pressed to remember anyone actually using one in the books.

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Mirrored from blog.ceciliatan.com.

Call for Submissions: Like a Breath of Flame

Call for stories! Deadline: November 1, 2011.

LIKE A BREATH OF FLAME: Dragon Erotica. Great serpents and winged lizards appear in nearly every mythology on Earth — in South America we have gentle Quetzalcoatl the winged serpent, in Egypt we have Apep the god of Chaos, in Mesopotamia we have Tiamat the mother of monsters, in Greece we have Scylla and the Hydra, in Aboriginal Australia there is the Rainbow Serpent… the list goes on, ending, of course, with our old friends, the European dragons of majesty and flame and the East Asian dragons of luck and rain. In modern fantasy, we have dragon riders and dragon-kin, half-dragons and luck dragons, dragons who walk in the shape of men. But what of the sexual side of the dragon? What of sensuality at the border between earth and sky, what of courtship rituals that shake the earth, and what of the dragon’s interactions with man (after all, it is said that the Emperor of China is the descendant of dragons…), what of dragons who take on human shape to learn of mankind’s ways? With humans and dragons existing side by side since the dawn of time, at what points did their desires cross? And even in the modern day, can you find someone with fire in their blood and jewels in their eyes? For Like a Breath of Flame, we’re looking for erotic tales of dragons and their kin from every culture, mythology, and time period.

All sexualities and gender expressions are welcomed.

This ebook anthology is being edited by Cosmin Alexander and Cecilia Tan for Circlet Press.

For submission details, read on.

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Mirrored from Circlet Press: Welcome to Circlet 2.0.

Pottermore names

Some of our enterprising and organized fanfolk have organized a comm for slashers on Pottermore who are also on LiveJournal: slashmore

and in this post, there is a list/directory of many of us by LJ name and PMore name! Have a look:
http://slashmore.livejournal.com/2594.html#cutid1

Meanwhile, DreamCloak146, MarauderBat37, FireboltVine167, and ShieldAuror182, please sing out so I can nickname you properly?