Hi guys, Rach here.

2014 UPDATE!!!! First off, it utterly SHOCKS, astounds and delights me that I still get reviews and favourites despite my absence! I'm a teacher now, educating the minds of bored teenagers. I, of course, am still stuck in WritersBlockCentral despite all my reading and writing over the course of my English and French degree.

I do hope to get back to writing in general and Fanfic at some stage though. You readers and reviewers have been so amazing and I want to say a huge thank you to you all! To all those who add me to favourites and nominate me for awards- I don't know how to begin expressing my thanks, it really does mean so much! (Especially since it's been so very long since I've actually written anything, the fact that I still get responses from you guys is seriously amazing.)

One of my aims, when summer holidays kick in and I have some free time, is to update all of these stories, to get rid of all the horrific grammar and spelling mistakes and weed out the unnecessary lines.
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Favourite authors continue to be Cassandra Clare whose breathtaking description and fantastically quotable lines never fail to amaze me. She's a truly lovely woman who I've had the pleasure of meeting many times.

Also Derek Landy who is absolutely hilarious, and the most friendly and amusing person I have had chance to meet. He once "wed" me and my friend James in a bookshop in Ireland once :P I adore his writing and general demeanor.

The last series I read was Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy, which I quite enjoyed, though it did drop in standard and failed to keep my interest in some places. Overall a great read though.

The 2009 The Mortal Instruments Fanfiction Awards

My Nominations

Best Author (Came 2nd) I don't know how that happened!! but thank you!
Best Overall: To Love or To Destroy (Came 3rd)
Best Clary x Jace: A Broken Heart Never Breaks Even (Came 2nd)
Best Multiple Chapter: To Love or To Destroy (Came 5th)
Best One Shot: Girl Talk (Came 3rd)
Best One Shot: What Is In A Name (Came 6th)

The 2009 The Maximum Ride Fanfiction Awards

My Nominations

Best Author
Best New POV: Fang in Beach Reunions
Best Original Character: Marie in Never Forgive Me
Best One Shot : My Mistake
Best General: Growing Up and Away
Best Story: Never Forgive Me
Best New POV: Fang in Growing Up and Away
Best One Shot: Love Me, Let Me Go
Best Angst: Love Me, Let Me Go
Best One Shot: Cold Loss
Best Drama: Growing Up and Away
Best Fang/Max: Never Forgive Me

The Maximum Ride Fanfiction Awards on http:///

My Nominations

The Fang Award: Still Here
The Ella Award: Still Here

Growing old is inevitable, Growing up is optional

Poets are just the kids who didn't make it- Fall Out Boy

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse? - Bruce Springsteen

You gotta stand for something or you'll fall for anything- The Script

The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing- Blaise Pascal

The best part of believe is the LIE - Fall Out Boy

"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." - Dr.Seuss

"If I thought that I were speaking to a soul
Who someday might return to see the world,
most certainly this flame would cease to flicker;
but since no one, if I have heard the truth,
ever returns alive from this deep pit,
with no fear of dishonor I answer you . . .'' (Dante's Inferno- translation by Mark Musa)

"Life was an uncertain thing, and there were moments one wished to remember, to imprint upon one's mind that the memory might be taken out later, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book, and admired and recollected anew." - Cassandra Clare

And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones
I am a writer, I am all that you have hoped on -- (Engine Driver, The Decemberists)

Once again a massive thank you to everyone who takes the time to read and review on my stories- it is an undeserved honour. To all the people who have nominated me for awards- thank you so much!! Especially those who actually think that I should be a contender for Best Author! Wow... Love you guys, you're great!

-Raven out