UPDATE (9/5/14): I can hardly believe that it has been more than 2 full years since I have updated any of my stories. My sincere apologies to all of you who read and reviewed my stories so loyally - and a big thank you to those who have continued sending messages and reviews in my absence. To say life has been topsy-turvy the past few years would be an understatement, but I am slowly getting back to my writing and will be renewing my efforts to finish all of my in-progress stories over the coming weeks and months. Thank you all for your patience!

First of all, thanks for stopping by my profile! I hope that means you are reading and enjoying my stories, or that I'm reading and enjoying one of yours!

I know that I have a lot of stories posted right now that are still 'in progress'. I promise that each of these stories will be finished in good time, even if they appear at the moment to have been abandoned. That isn't the case, and I would never leave you all hanging permanently! Because of a variety of circumstances in my life, I no longer have the time to write that I once had. Rather than abandon my stories completely, I have chosen to focus on one or two at a time, bringing each one to completion before moving on to the next.

I do make every effort not to begin publishing a story unless I have at least sketched out five chapters, often more. If I start something, I want you to know that it has a clear direction (clear to me, anyway - I make no promises that everything will be clear to readers after only a few chapters!). That said, my storylines are constantly being tweaked and polished as the chapters come together. I also don't tend to write more than three or four chapters ahead of what I have published. My point is, if you have suggestions and/or requests for a direction you think I should go in or a pairing you'd like to see developed in any particular story, I'm always happy to hear it - send me a PM or, better yet, leave it in a review! I can't make any guarantees that I'll be able to incorporate everything, but I do read and respond to every review and have on several occasions been able to work in my readers' requests.