Rhonda Collins

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Fan
Name: Rhonda Collins
Alias(es): Sandra McLaren[1][2] (pro-author)
Type: fanwriter
Fandoms: Beauty and the Beast
Communities:
Other: Legacy of Love
KAHRAMAAN — Castle Publishing
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Rhonda Collins has been a Beauty and the Beast fan since third season.

She primarily writes "4th season" fanfic, i.e. stories that accept all three tv seasons as canon, and if she is writing Classic BaB with Catherine alive it is not denialfic, but set prior to her death on the show. It is mostly published in zines with only excerpts on her website.[1]

About Her Fiction

In 1995, Rhonda Collins posted:

I've been publishing Beauty and the Beast fiction for five years. My sixth book, "Legacy of Love" was approved by Republic and was to be the fourth Cinemaker novel. It was awaiting only going to the printer when Ed Gross disappeared into the sunset. I publish primarily "fourth" season Beauty and the Beast with Vincent and Diana, but also offer two Classic fanzines for the folks who don't care for third season.

It has always been my belief that each season of Beauty and the Beast is important and all the episodes are a part of the whole. To remove one part, however small, is to diminish its value as a whole. I've tried in the best way I can to honor that in my writing. Any time I've made a mistake in depicting either an event which was previously written by the original creators, or written the characters "out of character," believe me, it's been unintentional. In fact, as often as not, if I feel that has occurred, I'll correct it. Beauty and the Beast is a trust I've tried to honor.

I've written nine full-length novels and many short stories and novelettes. Four of the short stories have been published in a digest-sized edition. I've produced two completely separate Vincent/Diana storylines in these books-two different series, each with its own assumptions of what "could" have happened given what facts we had in the series. They are both very different. Then, because I also love first and second seasons, I went back and wrote the novelization of "Terrible Savior" and "Siege," and pulled out my only other two Classic stories and two of my young Vincent stories and put them in a digest.

No age statement is required for any of my zines. Although adult and sexual themes are explored, I joke with my readers, telling them, "I don't do plumbing." The love scenes are sensual but not explicit. There is some violence. There is also a great deal of humor. I try to show tunnel life and the lives of the other B&B characters as well as simply Vincent/Catherine or Vincent/Diana.[3]

Works

References

  1. ^ a b Rhonda Collins. ""Legacy of Love"". Tripod. Archived from the original on 2004-07-19.
  2. ^ Rhonda Collins. "To learn more about the Zines (and books) of Rhonda Collins". Tripod. Archived from the original on 2005-01-26.
  3. ^ Rhonda Collins. "Rhonda Collins' Zine Catalog". Songs of the Bluebird. Archived from the original on 1998-12-01.
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