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[blowmiakisscolin]

The year is the 10 year anniversary of Your Case or Mine…and I’m currently knee deep in completing the Epilogue (FINALLY).

I’m hoping that there’ll still be an audience around to receive it. It’s been years since I posted the last chapter but I always planned/hoped/wanted to complete the labour-of-love Epilogue with my usual flash-forward style goodies included.

I’m also never on here anymore, but I will post it on here, FFnet and AO3, for anyone who’s still seeing my posts.

[mediademon]

YOUR CHRISTMAS OR MINE? (2022) dir. Jim O'Hanlon

[blowmiakisscolin]

Hi hi hi! Love your writing, so I wanted to ask if you’re still planning an Epilogue for “Your Case or Mine”??? It’s one of my favorites EVER, so there are still a ton of CS fans who’d love to read it! Hope all is well <3 <3 <3

So….ive just logged into tumblr for the first time in literally 2+ years, and I’ve found a few messages like this waiting for me. I’ve no idea when you sent this, but I just want to say thank you - it warms my heart so much that people became so invested in my little ole fic.

I was talking to my bestie @resident-of-storybrooke last night, and I AM going to finish this. Next month is the 7 year anniversary of me starting YCoM, and I’m going to do my absolute best to complete it by then (it’s already about halfway written!).

In the time I’ve been away/not writing, I got married and had a little pirate baby of my own, and I’m also back at work, so I get very little downtime. BUT I am carving out 30-60 mins on an evening, a few times a week for writing, and I’m very much committed to completing this epilogue.

I’ll also be posting it on here, as well as FFnet and AO3.

Thank you for loving my labour of love so much. It honestly means the world to me that people have embraced this fic the way they have over the years ❤️❤️

[blowmiakisscolin]

I need me some Your Case or Mine epilogue! Your story is so awesome.

Thank you, love!! I’m working on it, and it’ll be up soooooon! Thank you for being so patient, and for enjoying my little (not so little lol) fic! I’m gonna be so sad when I finish the Epilogue; this fic has been my baby for so long 😅

[blowmiakisscolin]

Pssst, guess what....

[blowmiakisscolin]

While writing the next chapter of YCoM, I realized that I never fully delved into who made up the Boston Homicide & FBI BAU teams. I had a few of them make cameos, but not all of them (yet).

So here’s a helpful little visual to formally introduce them...even though I’m 24 chapters deep into the story 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

Thanks, @resident-of-storybrooke, for helping me put together the teams!

[blowmiakisscolin]

The new chapter of Your Case or Mine is currently 10 pages long (4.8K words).....

....it’s ONE SCENE LONG so far. ONE.

Please hold @resident-of-storybrooke and @peggyyswan partly responsible, seeing as they’re cheering it on and encouraging this.

[blowmiakisscolin]

So...I’ve been talking with my dearest friends about potentially having Your Case or Mine printed into a paperback (self-publishing it via Lulu), when it’s finally complete.

(It’s gonna be a true chunky boi of a book, considering it’s almost 200K words right now. Putting that into perspective: The Fellowship of the Ring was 177K words, apparently, which I just surpassed!)

I then also got thinking about cover art. And I have no clue where to start with that!

Do you guys have any recommendations/tips/ideas?Any friends who take commissions for fandom/stylized/photography style book cover art? Any websites or apps etc you can recommend, where I could even potentially create my own book cover, if need be?

I made an artwork grid for the fic when I first started writing YCoM, and I really like that kind of style for it. But I don’t know if I’d be able to use that or how I’d adapt it to a front cover. Any ideas or tips for that would also be greatly appreciated!

(Also, side note, but if you’re interested in getting a copy of YCoM in paperback, please do let me know! I’ll put another post out once the fic is complete, to see if anyone is interested, and then I can get an idea of how many I’ll need to have printed!)