Dear Yuletide author

[girlyswot]

Thank you SO MUCH for writing something for me for the exchange. I am very excited about the idea of a story for Christmas and I love both the fandoms I've asked for. Please try to write something that's canon compliant in terms of both plot and characterisation.

If you're writing Antonia Forest, please don't feel obliged to stick to my own fannish interpretations, but if you'd like to see what I've done with the characters, there are links here on my LJ. I adore the AF fanfic of rose_and_lizard and you'll see she does quite different things to mine. I don't mind whether you write during the timeperiod of the books, or soon after, or a lot later. And feel free to do the AF thing of setting your story in the contemporary era if that helps. I like things that focus on the character interactions. I'd love you forever if you wrote some Ginty/Patrick/Nicola scenes. But I also really like Rowan and Miranda as characters to explore further.

If you're writing Heyer (any of the books I requested) please try to stick to her style - light, witty, romantic. I realise that's a terrifying thing to have to try to emulate her writing, but I really don't want to read anything too dark or smutty. And I do like the female characters' POV.

Thank you so much - I'm sure I'll love it and I hope you enjoy writing it!