Jae (femslash writer)
- For other fans with the same name, see Jae.
| Fan | |
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| Name: | Jae |
| Alias(es): | jae_s1978 |
| Type: | Fan writer, professional author, editor |
| Fandoms: | Law & Order: SVU, Star Trek: Voyager, original femslash/Uber |
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| URL: | jae-fiction.com, previously jae-fiction.de.vu and geocities.com/jae_s1978 |
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Jae is a German writer of lesbian romances. She has written both fanfiction and professional romance novels.
She posted some of her original fiction as Uber novels on The Athenaeum and The Royal Academy of Bards, later pulling to publish them.[1][2]
She wrote two Law & Order: SVU fanfiction series around 2007, one Olivia/Alex (the "Observation" Series) and one Olivia/OFC (the "Dawn" Series). Her fanfiction was removed from her website when it was redesigned in 2013.
In 2004, she conducted a fan survey and later posted part of a paper discussing the results on her website: "Young, Female, Single…? A Study of Demographics and Writing-/Reading-Habits of Fanfiction Writers and Readers".
Jae was a panelist at FemSlashCon's online publishing panel in 2011.[3]
Fandom History
I grew up amidst the vineyards and gently sloping hills of southern Germany. I spent most of my childhood with my nose buried in a book, earning me the nickname "professor" before I even finished elementary school. The writing bug bit me at the age of eleven. The very first piece of fiction I ever wrote was a 30-page western story that I still have somewhere (well-hidden because it alternately makes me cringe and laugh when I read it today). I wrote two dozen mostly novel-length stories (westerns, adventure stories, historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction - you name it, I've probably written it) in my "baby years" as a writer, but no one but my poor twin sister ever got to read them.That changed when I discovered the internet and the wondrous world of fanfiction and online-stories. My parents belatedly got their wish - I took my nose out of my books and started to spend my time glued to the computer screen instead. Soon after, I wrote my first fanfiction, a Star Trek: Voyager story. Don't bother to search for it on the web; even if there was still a copy in circulation somewhere, it's in German. Back then, I would have taken a thousand oaths that I would never, ever be able to write more than a grocery list in English. Then I took an intensive, free online language course - almost eight years of constant fanfic reading. Let's just say that I learned some words I later had trouble explaining to my friends why I would know such expressions.
So in the beginning of 2006, I finally put my newly acquired knowledge of the English language to good use and wrote a series of three Law & Order: SVU fanfics in English. As my confidence grew, I wrote a longer fanfiction and then my first English historical fiction. In some way, I've come full circle, because "Backwards to Oregon" takes place on the Western Frontier. Other than the setting I promise that it doesn't have much in common with my first childish attempt at writing.-- Jae, 2008 or earlier [4]
References
- ^ Individual Author Page ~ Jae ~ at The Athenaeum, accessed 05 November 2022.
- ^ Academy Author Index: Jae at The Royal Academy of Bards. Last updated 31 December 2009.
- ^ FemSlashCon. FemSlashCon '11 > Panels & Panellists > Publishing. Transcript of a live chat held 17 July 2011.
- ^ About me, archived 02 March 2008 by the Wayback Machine.