List of Fanworks by Kathy Keegan
Kathy Keegan is a Pros writer, and is one of the names used by Jane of Australia.
Other pseuds: Jane (of Australia), Jennifer Downes, Madelaine Ingram, Jade, JJ Downes, J.J. Adamson, Jennifer Downes, Jennifer Adamson-Downes [1], JJ Adams, Felicity Granger [2][3]), Shawn Gedge, Karen Jameison, Yvette Clark, Jack Heston, Barbara Jones, Sara Lansing, Viv Alexander, Adam Jenson, G.W. Conrad, Jane Sterling (sometimes Stirling), Carla Manners, and Peta Brock.
Also some pro names: two are Michelle Goddard,[4] and The One That Dares Not Say Its Name... [5][6] though says it here and here.
List of Keegan Stories
The original list of stories credited Kathy Keegan was compiled by TaVeryMate and all grateful credit is given to her.
Also see List of Fanworks by Jane of Australia.
Some series were later collected in a single zine, or several zines might be collected into an omnibus edition.[7]
As Kathy Keegan
This list was compiled by Karen AKA TaVeryMate - Sept 2007 & Updated Dec 2011: "[Info sources: my own zine and Circuit stories collections, Pen's story lists, some earlier story lists (notably Lily Fulford's list), Cassie Ingaben's database, the Proslib CD, the Hatstand Archive, the Circuit Archive, and the Nut Hatch zine master list (2004)].
NOTE: There is ongoing debate about whether or not Jane of Australia and Kathy Keegan are two pseudonyms for one and the same person or whether they are two separate people who shared similar styles, especially after years of frequent collaboration in writing and in zine publishing. Jane has strongly implied multiple times (in print interviews and in zine editorials) that she and Kathy are separate people. The Nut Hatch zines routinely referred to them as two separate people. Definitive statements on this issue are harder to find, and the potential wiggle room in some answers has fueled rumors and speculation. While there are certainly people who would know for sure, having known Jane and/or Kathy Keegan in person, I've not seen anyone absolutely confirm or deny the rumors. Personally, I consider it an open question at this point." [8]
Kathy Keegan's Professionals Fan Fiction
Adagio In Blue | Affairs of the Heart | The Angel of Rouen | Apprentice to a Pirate | Arabian Nights | Best of Enemies | Birds of Ill Omen | The Cassidy Legacy | Coming Home | Fancy Dancing | Flood Tide | Gentle on My Mind | Ice, Wind and Fire | The Importance of Being Raymond | In the Mood | Little White Lies | North Face | Pas de Deux | A Question of Priorities | The Silence of Knives | The Sovereign Voyage of Sinbad | Survival Run | Take the Stage | Terms of Endearment
Mapping Mel Keegan's M/M Gay Books from Professionals Fan Fiction
As Jane
- Aquamarine by Jane in Fantazine #5 (1993), later published as "Aquamarine" by Mel Keegan
- Breakheart by Jane in Other Times and Places #6 (1995), later published as Breakheart by Mel Keegan
- An East Wind Blowing by Jane in Fantazine #4, published as "An East Wind Blowing" by Mel Keegan
- A Madrigal by Jane (1987), later published as "Fortunes of War" by Mel Keegan
- The Perfect Gentleman by Jane (1991),later published as "Dangerous Moonlight" by Mel Keegan
- The Swordsman by Jane (1993), later published as "The Swordsman" by Mel Keegan
- Twilight by Jane in Fantazine #1 (1988), later published as "Twilight" by Mel Keegan
- Unfinished Melody by Jane (1988), later published as "Nocturne" by Mel Keegan
As Madelaine Ingram
- Flood Tide by Madelaine Ingram (1992), later published as "Storm Tide" by Mel Keegan
As Kathy Keegan
- Ice, Wind and Fire by Kathy Keegan in Cross My Heart #1 (1987), later published as "Ice, Wind and Fire" by Mel Keegan
As Jane and Madelaine Ingram
- Nothing Left to Lose by Jane and Madelaine Ingram (from a story by Kathy Keegan) in Leather and Blue Jeans (1993), later published as "Windrage" by Mel Keegan
As Felicity Granger
- The White Rose of Night by Felicity Granger (1994), later published as "The White Rose of Night" by Mel Keegan
As Madelaine Ingram
- Witchfires ("Legends" aka "Witchfire" series #1) by Madelaine Ingram in Cross My Heart #5 (1990), later published as "The Winds of Chance" (aka "Legends: The Fall of the Atlantean Empire")
Mel Keegan's Words
"There are also a series of Mel Keegan novels set in the 'Hellgate' universe, which was also the setting of Kathy Keegan's The Silence of Knives (although I'm unsure as to whether KK's actual story has been reworked as a Mel Keegan novel)." [See] Discovered in the Christmas Tree, Day 3 in January: discoveredinalj, Archived version [9]
Mel Keegan said in 2003:
FIVE MINUTES WITH MEL, SUBJECT: HELLGATE
Q: Where in the world did you dream this one up, and how?
A: The original idea grew and grew. I did the first version of HELLGATE way back in something like 1988, and like a good few of my novels, it didn't start out life as a gay book. I'd had fantasies about establishing myself as a writer in the mass-market back in those days, so most of my pro writing was aimed at that area. In fact, HELLGATE and the NARC books were totally wasted as mass market novels (esp. Jarrat and Stone ... what a crass waste it would have been if the original version had gone into print). The first version of HELLGATE was substantially different, and much simpler. I don't think a writer sets out deliberately to construct something this intricate and complex: it happens in the re-re-rewriting. HELLGATE has been through about four different forms (two gay, two not), and every time it was rewritten, I'd see new avenues to explore.
Q: Yet again, you've got tremendously dynamic characters.
A: With a story like this, you have to have them. I don't think it would 'fly' if the characters were not a little outrageous! The character of Curtis Marin strongly reminds me of the agent played by Bruce Lee in ENTER THE DRAGON. Obviously, Marin doesn't have asian looks, but the physical, mental and emotional capacities of the 'Lee' character in the classic movie are striking. I think Marin's Dendra Shemiji 'magic' reminds me a bit of the Shaolin magic, but I'll be honest, I didn't even notice this till very recently!
[much snipped] [10]
Kathy Keegan Bows Out
In the October 1995 editorial of Cross My Heart #12, Kathy Keegan wrote a lengthy introduction to "Survival Run," her last fan story.
I'm a year late with this story ... and it's all my fault! To begin with, I freely admit that I write at the pace of a tired snail these days, and my life is such a muddle that often I don't write anything at all for weeks. And then, I can hardly deny that - probably because my life is an unholy muddle! -- I'm not exactly thinking as clearly as a good writer ought to... In fact, unless I can rationalise my life, this may be my last writing for some considerable time. I don't want to promise stories, because I'm never sure what I can deliver, and when. But ... it's been big fun, and I take genuine pleasure in joining the many people who simply watch out for the new Nut Hatch zine. It looks like being big fun in future, too!
From an Interview with Jane of Australia in the early 2000s:
I HEARD THAT YOU AND KATHY KEEGAN HAD A BIG FIGHT...? Absolutely untrue! I won't speak at length about this ... suffice to say, we parted on the best of terms, but Kath just had other places to be, other things to do, and her life took her in one direction while mine took me in another!
References
- ^ "At the present moment in the unfolding of the universe, Nut Hatch and its gen-fanfic partner, Entropy Express, is actually three core people: Jennifer Downes, Mike Adamson, and (when he can find time away from work!) Dave Downes, and at the hub of the press, being the dog's body, chief-cook-and-bottlewasher, old workhorse, around whom the whole thing revolves, it's Jennifer, long known to most of fandom as JJ Adamson. Aha! Light may dawn with the mention of that name!" -- Home
- ^ Kathy Keegan and Madelaine Ingram are linked on several covers of Flood Tide.
- ^ Felicity Granger is confirmed by Jane herself in the online version of a fic. - Passages, author note at the end of the page.
- ^ "DEEP WATER that paperback novel by Michelle Goddard ... aka Jane! In 1992, Jane's thriller, DEEP WATER, was produced by the small Australian publisher, White Heron Press ... " -- "DEEP WATER: that paperback novel by Michelle Goddard ... aka Jane!", Archived version
- ^ "WHAT ARE YOU WRITING NOW? A short story (Callisto Switch)." and "...a story I'm about to write, "Callisto Switch" -- which has nothing to do with Xena, and is a pro SF story, incidentally -- popped into my mind one day in May, and I didn't "get the ending" that would make it work writing, till July!" -- two comments from the 1997-ish Interview with Jane of Australia and "CALLISTO SWITCH IS A SURPRISE FROM WAY OUT IN LEFT FIELD! WHEN WAS THIS ONE WRITTEN? WHAT DOES THE TITLE MEAN? I was actually in Fairbanks, AK, when I wrote this one. It would have to be something like 1998 or maybe the year after." -- 2005 comments by Mel Keegan MEL KEEGAN ONLINE, Archived version
- ^ Jane & Kathy Keegan's Pros Stories, Archived version
- ^ from Discovered in an LJ, posted January 3, 2012, accessed March 20, 2014; reference link
- ^ from Discovered in an LJ, posted January 3, 2012, accessed March 20, 2014 -- reference link
- ^ Seeking Pros list makers and readers of Mel Keegan's books: ci5hq, Archived version
- ^ FIVE MINUTES WITH MEL, SUBJECT: HELLGATE (you'll have to search for this due to the frame format of this site)