List of Fanworks by Jane of Australia

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This is a list of Jane of Australia's Professionals fanworks.

Also see List of Fanworks by Kathy Keegan.

A Fan's List: 2012

An original list of stories credited to Jane of Australia was compiled by TaVeryMate. TaVeryMate explained in 2012:

Back in 2007, a Pros fan asked for help in trying to track down Jane's complete oeuvre. She didn't have any idea where to look or, more importantly, what to look for. As I've been helping connect Pros fen and stories/zines for years, I couldn't resist her request and said I'd help, even knowing that it wouldn't be a simple task.

Why was this story list unusually challenging? In a nutshell: the sheer volume of stories, how many years Jane wrote in Pros, how many different places they were first published, how many places they were (or were not) later archived, and the number of series involved.

Jane was an extremely prolific author in Pros. She wrote Circuit stories from the mid 1980's on. She published her stories in numerous Pros anthologies, multi-media zines, letterzines, and as zine novels. Some were published through her own press (The Nut Hatch, with various name permutations over the years), while others were published by a wide variety of presses. One zine novel was paper published and provided with its own multi-media website. Some stories were archived on her own website (DOAW), now offline, some stories were archived through Proslib or at the Circuit Archive, while others have (so far) remained available only on the paper Circuit.

Additionally, many of Jane's stories are part of series, often scattered across multiple zines and letterzines and the Circuit. Some series were later collected in a single zine, or several zines might be collected into an omnibus edition.[1]

The list at palelyloitering.com was also assisted by TaVeryMate [2]. See Jane.

Jane's Stories: "The Professionals" -- In Alphabetical Order

Many of the stories are archived here.

Jane's Stories: "The Professionals" -- In the Order They Were Written

This is a list compiled by Jane Herself. It comprises all of Jane's fiction as Jane of Australia up to November 1991. This list was printed in Perfect Gentlemen.

a November 1991 list by Jane
  • Discoveries/It’ll Be All Right On The Day /after DIAG/
  • Midnight Dreaming /semi-fantasy/ Series:
  • Old Longings/Russian Roulette/Better To Forget/ Practical Demonstration/Acceptable Risks/ Mystery Trip
  • Family Snaps
  • The Legend Of Eileen Fey (massively rewritten as Falconhurst)
  • Happy Landings
  • Doctor On The Squad /with Doctor In The House/
  • The Rakes’ Progress /gentle reference to AIDS, happy ending!/ Bedtime Story/Another Bedtime Story
  • The Eyes Have It
  • Shades Of Green /St. Patrick’s Day Party)
  • Labyrinth/Be It Ever So Humble /semi-fantasy, violence/ Rainbows Always End /sequel to Water Under * The Bridge/ Series:
    • Rainy Days/Confessions Of AShutterbug/My Cousin Raymond/The Wind In The Willows/Family Matters/Chanson De Matin/Ice, Wind And Fire (by Kathy)/A Fate Worse Than Death/Whistling In The Dark/Yesterday’s News (novel)/Never Say Die/ Prodigals’ Progress/Sea Pictures/For Auld Lang Syne (due)
  • Series:
    • Kin/Bran/B/D, or ’Dreaming Stone Stories (Celtic Fantasy segments interspersed with 1980s action) And Lovers Long Ago/The Dreaming Stone/Dark Dreaming/ Dreams Of Long Ago/ Dreams Of Yet To Be/Bellane (poem)
  • Series;
    • Elven-human fantasy, grouped as ’Raven/Bodie or R/B): The Hunting, Book One—The Hunting (362pp)/Book Two--The Kingdom Of Summer (487pp)/ Book Three-Fair Blows The Wind (500pp)/For Raphael/Home Is The Hunter/ Brandywine/Wait Upon The Wind/Avalon/The Lark/The Talisman/Rites Of Passage/The Firebird/Moonshadows/East Of Midnight/Arran/The Snowbird/Book Four—Clan of The White Fox/Book Five—Elvensongs (to come)
  • Two Up
  • I Won’t Send Roses /after Involvement/
  • Desperate Measures /comedy-drama: Doyle in drag/ Celebrations /death story/
  • Guilty As Charged
  • Bringer Of Light And Magic (xf Master Of The Revels) Series:
    • Magickal, parts 1-6 (part 6due) /science fiction, on Facelift/ AMadrigal /Elizabethan historical/
  • Unfinished Melody/Twilight /vampyre historical/ Pushbike Song /semi-humorous/
  • Gentle Persuasion /hurt-comfort/
  • One Of Those Days /situation comedy/1 Falconhurst /gothic ghost story with KGB/ ABeltaine Elegy /sequel to Falconhurst/
  • The Sword /Roman-Celtic England historical/
  • Green Fingers /hurt comfort) Time And Motion novella
  • Prince Of The Mists /1890s vampyre novella, in OTAP 2/ Perfect Gentlemen
  • Czardas /Bodie-Don Demarco/

Mapping Mel Keegan's M/M Gay Books from Professionals Fan Fiction

As Jane

As Madelaine Ingram

  • Flood Tide by Madelaine Ingram (1992), later published as "Storm Tide" by Mel Keegan

As Kathy Keegan

As Jane and Madelaine Ingram

As Felicity Granger

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")

Regarding "Hellgate"

"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 [3]

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] [4]

References

  1. ^ from Discovered in an LJ, posted January 3, 2012, accessed March 20, 2014 -- reference link -- This original 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)]." -- from Discovered in an LJ, posted January 3, 2012, accessed March 20, 2014 --reference link
  2. ^ "I have been sent a wonderful amount of information about Jane/Kathy Keegan today, including what may be a complete Pros story list for them both. I am going to include that list, as sent, here below my normal listing, to be gradually amalgamated, so that it can be used by people in the meantime! As I add stories to the fic list, I will take them off the copied list below, and italicise them in the fic list until a proper link is made for them. With many thanks to TaVeryMate, and to her sources of information!" -- Jane
  3. ^ Seeking Pros list makers and readers of Mel Keegan's books: ci5hq, Archived version
  4. ^ FIVE MINUTES WITH MEL, SUBJECT: HELLGATE (you'll have to search for this due to the frame format of this site)
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