Happy Monday, campers.  I just wanted to share a funny email I got over the weekend that you, fellow office campers might appreciate.  It will be on the first post as it is image heavy.

To make this interactive - share something funny - an email, joke, pictures etc.  We can all use a good laugh to pass the day away.

Hello to the forest! I'm a new camper here! *looks around and sigh with delight* I love this forest!

I apologize if the following subject has already been discussed!

I wanted to know if:Has anyone here sent a fan letter to a celebrity? Were you lucky enough to get a reply?

The thing is, I'm thinking about sending a letter to Robert Pattinson, but somehow, I'm afraid it will bother him. XD  I don't really know why I feel this way, but every time I sit down and try to think about what I could write, I hesitate and give up . What to do? Does anybody here feel the same way?

And The Highest-Paid Authors Are…
Filed under: Harry Potter > Twilight
 

Surprise, surprise!

Twilight's Stephenie Meyer and Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling made it on the Forbes' top 10 list of highest-paid authors, including Stephen King, Danielle Steel, and Nicholas Sparks.

Even though publishers and book sellers are seeing a decline in hard cover sells, e-books show a promising increase in the world of authors as well as highly popular franchises like Twilight and Harry Potter.

The top ten money-maker$ are:

1. James Patterson ($70M)
2. Stephenie Meyer ($40M)
3. Stephen King ($34M)
4. Danielle Steel ($32M)
5. Ken Follett ($20M)
6. Dean Koontz ($18M)
7. Janet Evanovich ($16M)
8. John Grisham ($15M)
9. Nicholas Sparks ($14M)
10. J. K. Rowling ($10M)

taken from Perez.....

So, campers, what do you think? Any surprises? That's a lot of moolah- but in my eyes, totally worth it considering how much joy she's brought to me, whether by her books alone or ROB or leading me to fanfiction or ROB or the creation of sites like ADF and all the cool peeps that come along with it. Oh yeah, and her ringing endorsement of ROB! Um, and also all the kids and non-readers that she got reading and hooked on her books :-)  That's good, too.

eta: this is the list for this year (from last june to this june), not all time.

Dearest Campers,

I receive PMs from you lovely people on a regular basis. Oftentimes, these are questions about how the site functions, and questions like that are probably somewhat urgent -- I mean, you probably want a quick answer so you can use the feature immediately.

I just need to let you all know: Don't ask me.

I'm not saying I don't know the answer. I probably do. It's just that I'm not very available these days.

You see, I'm helping my family out with some stuff, which has called me away from home, out of my comfort zone, and off my usual schedule. I'm lucky if I'm on my computer enough non-contiguous minutes a day to string together an hour. And sleep is kind of the same way right now.

So please. I don't want to disappoint anyone by being a no-reply, but I can't help it. There are lots of other Rangers to PM.

I love you all. Thank you for keeping the forest warm in my absense.

xo

j

Interactive part: Who do you go to for help when you need it?

I remember when I was in college I used to call the overnight DJ at the local radio station a lot & talk all night long. He's still a dear friend.

Sebastien Robichaud, author of “The University of Edward Masen,” has agreed to do an author Q and A about the story and writing fanfiction. If you would like to submit a question for consideration, please post it here or PM me. I’m putting the questions together and then will forward them to Mr. Robichaud.

I’m not sure yet where the interview will appear, but I will post that information as soon as I know it.

Thank you!

ATTENTION CAMPERS:

Yes, this is a community based around TWILIGHT but a LOT of our campers (and rangers) are excited about this coming out tomorrow:

And here is the thing, I DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED!

WHAT THIS MEANS IS, KEEP YOUR THOUGHTS TO YOURSELF FOR A WHILE! If you are reading this, don't tweet about what happens and, for the love of all that is precious, don't start any campfires telling what happens.

I WILL sit you down and tell you how DISAPPOINTED I AM IN YOUR BEHAVIOR, but I can't promise you that the other rangers wouldn't do worse. 

SPOILING IS SERIOUS BUSINESS, CAMPERS.

Now, to make this interactive, lets talk about PREDICTIONS. What do you think is going to happen in this book? Major character deaths? Or is she going to cop out a la Stephenie Meyer and do some sort of ultimate HEA? 

TALK ABOUT IT ALL YOU WANT, BUT I DON'T WANT ANY SENTENCES STARTING WITH "I HEARD THAT...." OR "SOMEONE READ IT AND SAID...." 

SPECULATE, BUT DON'T SPOIL.

Also, I wasn't around for a few days so none of the regular campfires went up. For those of you asking. We will do them this week. The schedule may just be a little different to compensate.

Can anyone give me a link for Rob's Deatils magazine photoshoot? I watched it a few month back and now can't find it!! I think it was the official videofrom the magazine?? But I could be wrong.

XX M

I have been SO AMAZED at the amount of work y'all have put into the compilation of our Best Recs of ADF fan fiction lists!  Wow!

I am still getting requests, so I plan on asking you to continue to contribute as you can to the lists until the Future Lists List has been entirely crossed out.  A reminder, the MASTER FIC LIST is where you can find links to all of our lists and the recommendations for more than twenty different categories of fan fiction.  I am also keeping a list on page four in my cabin. 

Today, we're starting a series of Secondary Pairings, for lack of a better title.  I'd like for you to find and recommend the best in fanfiction FEATURING Emmett and Rosalie.  Where this dynamic duo is the main romantic couple in the story, the pair whom the action revolves around -- not just a sidelight.   They have their public and I know that for many in the Forest, Em/Ro is hugely popular!  AH, AU, Canon or Non-canon.  Bring the best stories out there!

Remember the Rules of the Campfire:  Keep your recs simple -- just the title, author and summary.  No discussions.  This is, you know, a LIST. :)

What have you got?  Share it with the Forest! 

My rec will be in the campfire, as always.

Thank you so much for taking the time to help!

Trying an experiment.

Would you mind hitting your ff account - and giving a total of the following

(this can be for faves or alerts, whichever your pref)

total number of 

ah

au/canon (basically vamp)

and then total number of 

m rated

all other rated

I'll tally and loop back around - curious as to distribution.

In the meantime - did you find anything that surprises you in your list?

im sooo tired of smut - im tired of authors ( i use that term loosely) trying to get people to read there stories with promise of lemons and the plot getting lost in it and most of all, if i read another freakin ; oh edward dont tease me, i will flip my lid!  Also - sometimes?  pull an itzmegan and keep something to the imagination! 

gah 

ps why dont we have chapter updates anymore here? 

pss other then this im really happy with the weather and the forest in general 

So I'm working on my story and writing out some fairly intense scenes and trying to get in the heads of the characters.  Do you ever have problems getting in your characters' heads? I normally don't have trouble, but I think I'm being ADD right now and having a hard time focusing on how their own situations would make them react.  Anyway, I was just curious what you all do to get in your characters' heads. :)  I almost feel like an actor having to become this other person, which is really kind of cool.  I've always loved reading and have no trouble getting into the characters, but writing is a new thing for me so it's all like the first time you see snow.  New and fresh and exciting! 

Anyway, this song is stuck in my head now.  I know it has nothing to do with my question but I love it all the same. ;)  What can I say, I'm a child of the 90's - or I should say a teenager of the 90's. 

I read a story awhile ago and can't remember the name of it or the author. Any help would be really appreciated. It's a B/E story. They're in college and one night out after a bar B&E leave the others and go to a tattoo shop and get each others first initals on their ribs. But don't remember it until they wake up the next morning in the hotel room with the others. I know Edward dates Victoria for a bit and Bella meets Alex I thnk. Jealousy ensures and that's about all I can remember. So if you can help let me know please.

Today one of my favorite authors up and disappeared.  HappyInLove, the author of Cien Anos de Soledad and There Fell a Stillness, just pulled all of her stories.  

I'm really sad because I loved her writing.  If anyone knows her, I hope she is okay, and i'll miss her beautiful words. 

Anyone know what happened to There Fell a Stillness? I opened all the bookmarked fics to see which ones updated and it said story not found. It had to have been deleted like within the past couple hours because it was there this morning...

The lovely TalulaBlue updated With Teeth! It's last chapter! *sobs*

Off to read!

I have been on a Jake and Nessie kick today. I have been looking for post BD stories where Ness is all grown up and ready to get lemony.

Any recs?

How do you picture baby ness/ 6 year old nessie?

Dark Nessie video in the comments.

On Thursday we played this little game please click HERE to look at the game, anyhoo I was thinking that today we could something similar but instead of using words to describe fics, we'll use words to describe characters in fics, here is where all the (please insert random word)-wards would be useful. I shall start with the first word in the comments.

After FGB and talking to people on twitter, I've come to realize that this fandom's got some pretty crafty people.  Whether you knit, sew, papercraft, bake, take pictures, or make anything handmade, I wanna know about it.  They can be Twilight-related, but don't have to be.  I have a future project in mind, but am not sure if I'm gonna do it.  I'm probably gonna compile a list of people who make stuff for a directory though.  If you make handmade goods, would you please fill out this form for me?  It's only 12 questions :)

Also, if you make stuff and wanna show us pics in the comments, that'd be awesome!

Link to form: http://bit.ly/twicreate

Thank you!

*Posted with Permission of Ranger GrownAssWoman*

So I am writing my next fic and I am looking for a town that it so different from chicago that Edward would feel a culture shock. It can be in the US or anywhere around the world and if there isn't information about it on the interwebz *gasp* then some basic information and recognizable sights would be greatly appreciated :)

Thank you loves <3

FYT:

I thought we'd try something, because I think it's the coolest thing. It amazes me that even the idea that people all over the world are reading something I've written, let alone having it proven. It's awesome and I LOVE that FFN has those nifty little graphs to show us.

SO writers show us who is reading your story and where they're from!

Writers go to your FFN profile page and look up your story traffic. And let's talk about your August 2010 visitor break down by country. Come in here and post your top 10 countries that are reading your story. We don't need to see how many readers per location, just the top ten locations if you've got them or whatever you've got. For whatever you write, one-shots, other fandoms, anything that shows your words are reaching around the world.

Then tell us how you feel about that. Are there any surprises? What about out of all the countries that show up on your charts, was there any country that shocked you? A country that you were excited to see represented? Or do you remember the first time you saw that country graph, what did you think? Do you remember the first country that made an impression? Maybe if we get enough data we can see if there are some other common places besides the big hitters.

OR if you're a reader and you're not from one of the heavy hitting countries come in here and tell us where you're from!

Come on let's compare all the awesome countries that are reading around fanfic around the world.

Mine are in the comments.