Nancy Arena

Fan
Name:	Nancy Arena
Alias(es):	Anne Carr, Annie Carr
Type:	fan writer, circuit library
Fandoms:	The Professionals, Tris/Alex, The Phantom Menace
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URL:	The Phantom Menace fan fiction, Professionals fanfiction at the Circuit Archive
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Nancy Arena was a slash fan writer who was perhaps best known for her contributions to Tris/Alex fandom having written some of that fandom's earliest RPS.

She also founded the US Professionals circuit library before handing it over to Karen B. in the mid-1980s.

Her Pros novel Wine Dark Nexus where Bodie and Doyle are bull dancers in Crete, is often cited as an excellent example of historical AUs. In addition to her Pros fan fiction, she wrote for The Phantom Menace fandom.

Nancy Arena passed away in 2021.

Tris/Alex

• For All the Gods Departed

Professionals

This is a partial list from a 1990s index subject to verification, and from listings on Fanlore. Some of these stories were credited under "NL Arena" and some under "N. Arena" and some under Anne Carr. Complicating matters is that some are sequels to stories written by other writers - and vice versa. Assistance in untangling the writer credits appreciated.

• After Midnight Temptation (sequel The Devil & G. Cowley)
• Amateurs, The Next Part
• American Tourister (sequel The Last Resort)
• Autumn Time (sequel Shades of Summer)
• Bodierata
• Con Mary Sue (aka. B&D at an S.F. Con)
• Death and Life
• Debts Repaid
• The Descent to Humanity, The (sequel Debts Repaid written by Anne Carr)
• The Devil & G. Cowley (sequel Expenses Covered)
• Double Down (writing as Anne Carr)
• Doyle's Trip to Wales (sequel Doyle's Vacation to Wales)
• Expenses Covered
• Finished Business (sequel Finished Business: The Sequel)
• Fugue in V Minor
• The Ghost of a Shadow (sequel: Shadow of a Ghost, The) (writing as Anne Carr, in Uncharted Waters)
• Hepatitis
• Hijacked
• How to Write a Classic Bad Hatstander for Bodie and Doyle
• Journal (writing as Anne Carr, in In the Public Interest)
• Koala Magic (??)
• Katrin's Jigsaw
• Lady Catherine's Ghost by Anne Carr and Merlyn Smith
• Lightslide (Lightslide Universe series;)
• Marooned
• Numbers Up (writing as Anne Carr, in Hauntings and Others)
• Odds On (writing as Anne Carr, in Discovered on a Rooftop)
• Odds Out
• One-Off
• Optical Illusions (sequel Peanut Butter Connection)
• Peanut Butter Connection
• Phoenix
• Pictures of an Exhibition
• Plot? What Plot?
• Price for Flight
• Recurring Dream
• Rules of the Game
• Runner Home
• The Shadow of a Ghost (writing as Anne Carr, in Uncharted Waters)
• Shower (sequel One Off)
• Song For Sid?
• Surfeit
• Voyeur (sequel Siren) (writing as Anne Carr)
• Walk a Different Path (writing as Anne Carr, in Free for All)
• Wine Dark Nexus (writing as Anne Carr, also in In the Public Interest)
• A Winter's Tale
• Whitecraft

The Phantom Menace

• The Waking (writing as Anne Carr, The Phantom Menace at The Obi-Wan Torture Oasis)
• Twenty Questions (writing as Annie Carr, co written with Emrin Alexander and originally published in Living Force I. The story was also recorded as podfic here.

Reactions/Reviews

(As pages are created for individual fanworks, please move reviews to the new page)

• On "Marooned" (Professionals): "Bodie and Doyle are deliberately marooned on an island, yet set up as if they are on holiday. This provides us with a slow, romantic building towards a relationship which is suddenly stopped by their rescue and subsequent debriefing. Doyle feels completely shut out from Bodie, and the latter part of the story is his fight to claim his lover back."
• "Twenty Questions" (The Phantom Menace): "Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon are trapped in a cabin by a month-long storm. Their only source of entertainment? A Cosmo-like magazine with a test called 'How Well Do You Know Your Closest Companion?' I've been reading some fairly heavy fic of late, so I was really happy to stumble across this piece of fluff. The questions are awesome (and very Cosmo-like), the answers are interesting, and the banter is entertaining. Ideal for anyone in need of a light, fluffy story."
• "Twenty Questions" (The Phantom Menace): "This is a classic! Obi and Qui, snowed in together, with tons of UST (unresolved sexual tension). Yummy! The ending will leave you breathless, or at least, panting. Must read!"
• "Runner Home" (Professionals): Bodie runs from his love for Doyle, but Doyle, both furious and hurt chases after him learning a thing or two about himself and his feelings for Bodie in the process."

• Dyscommunication with Emrin Alexander