In
honor of the review of Cosa Nostra: The Truce, I thought I would
give my Lovelies (and whatever the equivalent is in RK's world) a
little insight into some of the characters.
I
met RK in 2002 through some guy who had read a fan fiction I wrote
and stuck online someplace. It was based off of that old TV
mini-series V and V: The Final Battle from the 80's. That is the
series that introduced me to Robert Englund's work and, frankly, I
thought he did his best work there, not in Nightmare on Elm Street.
I can't even remember the name of the fan fiction anymore, but no
doubt it is still online someplace. Anyway, this guy approaches me
about writing in a serial fan fiction and bringing my characters into
the storyline. He introduces me to RK and it's off to the races …
My
first post was called “Gem” and was posted on Friday
October 25, 2002 7:48pm. That post introduced the character that is
now Emerald Whelan and her son who was and remains Ty Bittetto. If
you remember the V series, then you know that there were humans and
there were the lizard-like aliens. Ty and Emerald were and remain
human.
Sticking
to my original characters, I will now move on to Vincent D'Simone,
who was Vincent D'Antoni in the fan fiction. No matter what his
surname is, that boy is hot as hell. The final post to the list
involves Vincent and Kira and was written Monday December 12, 2005
1:42 pm.
Three
years writing a continuing fan fiction.
RK
remained friends, and would many times go back over the archives,
which I obsessively stored and still have to this day. At one point
RK suggested that we do what we needed to do to make the story a
novel, because the story we created rocked. I groaned, but agreed.
Took
us over five years, but we did it!
Because
the original story belonged to someone else, we had to change aspects
of it. First of all, everyone became an Earthling. That was a
no-brainer, as was simply turning it into a Mafia war. As Ty was
already Italian, we kept the Italian's in the war. In the original
fan fiction he was mixed with African-American, and I agreed that
should change to fit the mafioso leanings of the new plotline. My
fans and friends know my love of the Irish in general and redheads in
particular. And so Gem/Emerald became a red haired, green-eyed
Irishwoman.
For
the record, there are more Cosa Nostra stories in the works.
Hope
you enjoyed this little “history lesson”. Tune in next time,
when I regale you with the history of I don't know what yet.