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Spotlight Author for June 22, 2025

✨Dragonfire42 ✨

Dragonfire42 (she/they) is a magician, puppeteer, and grown-up theatre kid who's been in 200 plays over the last 20 years, and recently decided to play in the fanfic sandbox. Keep reading to learn more about their many contributions to the Good Omens community, as well as other creative gifts she has to offer to all of us.

Dragonfire42 has many hobbies outside of the Good Omens world:

“I live in Colorado (USA). I'm pretty active with local theatre, puppetry and magic, and also love hiking, kayaking and dancing.” 

Good Omens was not exactly “new” to Dragonfire42 - but Season 2 changed everything (probably true for many fans!!):

“I read the book about twenty years ago, and then watched the first season, but didn't get REALLY feral with the fandom until the end of Season 2 when that left me with SO many questions! I made a Tiktok video about the experience.” 

And their discovery about the depth of the GO fandom helped to guide Dragonfire42's desire to create their own outpouring of written works:

“I'd read fanfiction for years, but I'd rarely written any. Most of my writing experience is in writing plays and short skits for film. I felt a huge passion to write my first fanfic "The NeverEnding Archive" (A NeverEnding Story / Good Omens crossover) and when I was joining groups to share the story I wrote, I found out about all the fanfiction events and bangs and fun excuses to make friends and keep writing! Just last year I was in 7 bangs and 3 gift exchanges and every month I write GTA ficlets too and all of those events encouraged me to write 250,000 words just last year!” 

That’s quite a LOT of writing!!  Any personal favorites among those?

“"Fowl Play" - the sci-fi comedy crossover with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Good Omens that I wrote when I turned 42 is my favorite! I put a LOT of thought into that story, with all the jokes and also trying to make it make sense in both universes. For non-GO work, I just wrote a solo play I've taken to Fringe festivals called "Safety First" I'm pretty proud of too!” 

Dragonfire42 has given us so many stories for Good Omens, but she has also produced written works for OTHER fandoms - which has inspired lots of GO cross-overs:

“Back in high school I wrote a lot for V: The Series (someday I might put one or two of them on AO3!), and also for a video game called Tex Murphy "Under a Killing Moon" (I wrote a huge choose your own adventure fanfic on my old Geocities site! And the author Aaron Connors read it and complimented me!). What I love with all the crossover options now is I'm getting to write for a ton of fandoms but keeping it all Good Omens, with stories like Casablanca "Here's Looking at You, Angel", The Seventh Seal "The Angel's Gambit", H2G2 "Fowl Play", Discworld "Crowley and the Seven Nac Mac Feegles", and The Neverending Story "The NeverEnding Archive".” 

And of course, a particular member of the Spotlight Author team is ESPECIALLY intrigued by Dragonfire42’s past fandom obsessions, savvy?:

“I think the last fandom I was this feral in was Pirates of the Caribbean. I joined a fan-based pirate crew, we did camping trips and pub shanty sings and pirate Christmas caroling and I hosted the Pirate vs Ninja Olympics at a local con three years in a row. I ran for Pirate King for our pirate fest (and I got a respectable 2nd). I also tried to find real buried treasure (Forrest Fenn's) which is what my solo play "Safety First" is about.”

With all of these many different stories that Dragonfire42 has shared, one of our readers wanted to know how she kept the characters feeling fresh and exciting to write across all the different AUs:

“That's a great question. I have a HUGE file in my phone of notes called "Plot Bunnies" that I write when I'm going about my day, or sometimes even when I'm writing a different story, just take a quick thought or idea to explore later. A lot of them I use during the monthly ficlets and some turn into longer stories. I was talking with a friend about how I used to dance tango months ago, and then wrote a few notes in case I could use it for a future story, and now I'm almost 4,000 words in to writing that! I love Good Omens in particular for that because there are infinite possibilities within canon (the whole history of Earth and earlier!) and infinite possibilities with human AU storylines too!” 

Dragonfire42 does not just write about our ineffable duo.  In fact, nearly every character in GO is given a moment in the spotlight:

“In my Casablanca crossover “Here's Looking at You, Angel” - I got to write about every possible GO pairing and then some. After the end of S2, Crowley is sad because of a love curse that pairs up everyone around him except him (think the end of S1 when all the couples there officially paired off EXCEPT our Aziracrow) - so in that story I got to go deep on ALL possible ships. I had 10 in that story total, including a secret pairing at the end. My favorites for writing in that one were Muriel/Eric 7 and Saraqael/Demon Josh.”

So outside of Aziraphale and Crowley, which character does Dragonfire42 enjoy writing about the most?

“Elspeth was fun to write in “Elspeth and the Beanstalk,” an AU where Aziraphale drinks the laudanum instead of Crowley that I wrote for the Fairytale bang. I really loved writing Newt in the H2G2 crossover "Fowl Play" - he plays the Arthur Dent style character to Crowley's Ford Prefect. I always get a kick out of writing Shadwell ("The Network of Highly Trained Human Operatives") But probably my absolute favorite was Furfur as Raphael the healer in “Out of Alignment.”” 

Speaking of “Out of Alignment”, one of our readers asked about what inspired this story and "...that kind of inner imbalance, a little bit physical, a little bit ethereal”:

“"Out of Alignment" was inspired by a few things - one was how much I really love reading all the healing and recovery stories in this fandom. I find it so fascinating how so many different authors build in reasons that angels or demons who can heal themselves could plausibly fall ill. I'm also a huge fan of stories that deal with True Forms. It goes back a bit to my love of magical realism, I love taking a huge abstract concept like spinning wheels with eyes and finding a way to ground it realistically. For that story I used the real physics concept of "gimbal lock" and applied it to True Forms on how it could cause problems, with Crowley needing a bearing replacement on his True Form wheel in order to function. It took months of research to figure out enough about the physics part of it before I was comfortable sharing the story, and I even used a physical 3D printed version of a True Form so I could try to understand gimbals and gimbal locks better myself. But the real core of the story is recovery - from Aziraphale as caretaker and Crowley learning to be vulnerable and accept help, and all the unexpected friends who help along the way. I've had experiences as a caretaker and have had times I've needed to be taken care of too, and that story included a lot of my personal reflections.” 

Dragonfire42 gives us a sneak peek at some of their WIPs - be sure to stay tuned for these exciting works:

“I'm on the last chapter of "Dream within a Dream" and expect to finish that soon. I also have two stories in zines coming up, my tango AU story (untitled) that I'm writing, and also I have one currently in "Bright Star: A Good Omens Astronomy Zine" called "Invisible Force" - a story about Crowley brainstorming gravity when he was a starmaker. (That zine is available now for a limited time for a donation to the On Our Own Side Fund!). I'm also doing the "Strongly Worded Notes" event with the Do It With Style discord, and I'm excited to say I was paired with LyricalKris and Maon25 for some epistolary fun! I also have a silly kaiju story I'm writing about two giant statues in Denver (The Big Blue Bear/Blucifer) that I hope to post soon."

Here's a short snippet of the tango AU story 👀:

Breath, click, tap, slide…

She fell into his embrace like she was custom fit for it as they moved in rhythm, almost sharing a single heartbeat as their breaths fell in sync. She tapped the toe of her shoe just against his shiny wingtip, and slid her foot up the inside of his leg with a practiced enganche flourish.

It’s just a dance, she told herself. But something about the way he breathed a little more heavily into her ear made her breath speed up slightly too...” 

As mentioned earlier, Dragonfire42 loves performing, including magic acts.  Does she use these experiences as inspiration for stories?

“I do! I wrote "Jiggery Pokery" as a deep dive with my knowledge of magic, written from Professor Hoffman's (Aziraphale's mentor in magic) POV. I also wrote "Rainbow Connection" that's a human AU of Aziraphale and Crowley as puppeteers. Both of those I wrote for the Good Omens Theatre Bang and absolutely love the art that inspired those stories too! (I got SO excited about the art that I pulled over in a kayak in Florida to claim them for a story!!)” 

One reader shared this question for Dragonfire42: “What inspired you to show us Prof Hoffman's view of Aziraphale's magic skills? It was an inspired choice and you did it so beautifully.”

“Oh thank you! We don't often see our Ineffables interacting directly with humans, and I thought it was so interesting that Aziraphale mentions mentoring with Prof Hoffman when he shows Crowley the autographed book and it made me giggle picturing how that would have likely gone, and I thought it would be funny to have Hoffman's POV trying to figure out this kind and well-meaning but clumsy magician as a student. It also let me deep dive on the two magic books mentioned in Aziraphale's collection and the real-life mystery with those. I think outsider POV stories are so fun and I really enjoyed writing this one!”

Magic and whimsy hold a special place for Dragonfire42’s favorite writing themes:

“I think I've learned through all these different stories that I really enjoy writing stories with a magical realism theme, particularly healing stories that go a little deep, but are grounded in fun history facts or science knowledge in our world. I also really love writing comedy, and try to carry that through all my work. “Hissy Fit” and “Green Light” were both inspired by @gleafer art, and are two of my favorite comedy pieces I’ve written.”

Outside of writing, Dragonfire42 has shared an abundance of other creations with this fandom (Tumblr and AO3 links included):

“I made a shadow puppet crankie inside a pumpkin at Halloween predicting Season 3 .

I also did a series of magic tricks cosplaying as Fell the Marvelous.

And I made a miniature book nook of A.Z. Fell's Bookshop with some custom made miniatures that have easter eggs from all my fanfic stories (including a mini zine)!

I also recently made my first fan art for a House MD crossover I'm enjoying reading.

And I made a concrete poem of a feather for my story "Dream within a Dream" featured in this chapter.

I love all the ways to be creative in this fandom!”

Dragonfire42 shares these encouraging words for all those inspired to create for this fandom:

“The thing I love most about our fandom is how encouraging we are of artists at all skill levels. It's such a great outlet for ALL forms of creativity! I would encourage anyone who wants to jump in to do it! That's the great thing on AO3, there's no gatekeepers, anyone can post! I also highly encourage finding communities to join, like all the fun Discord ones or through Tumblr or Facebook, it's a great way to make friends. And join events like fanfic/fanart bangs, it's a fun way to collaborate and make fun new art! This link's a little dated but you can see some of the groups to find out more.” 

Final Thoughts?

“Thank you so much for hosting these and thank you everyone for the wonderful and thoughtful questions, this was a delight!” 

A great big thanks to YOU, Dragonfire42!!  It was truly OUR delight to learn more about your life and all the magic you bring into the Good Omens world.  

Here's some links where you can continue to follow Dragonfire42:

For puppetry:

Instagram

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For fanfiction:

Archive of Our Own [AO3]

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Past Spotlight Author Posts

Continuing to share previous Spotlight Authors from the original Facebook posts to help catch everyone up with this fun and informative campaign.

Our second post featured AlwaysBeMyBaby and was shared in April '25. Keep reading to learn more about their Good Omens-influenced works and participation in this ineffable fandom.

Here’s some more info about AlwaysBeMyBaby’s life outside of the Good Omens fandom:

“I grew up in Guam and Hawai’i and I currently live in Northern California with my partner, child, and two cats. I’m an English professor interested in race, empire, and colonization as well as poetry, media, and popular culture. My hobbies include U-Jam dance and hot yoga. As a teenager in the 1980s, my favorite poet was Anne Sexton and my favorite band was The Clash.”

AlwaysBeMyBaby is fairly new to the Good Omens fandom - and actually discovered it after participating in another popular fandom! 

“My first online fandom was Our Flag Means Death. I started watching OFMD because it seemed like a cool show to watch with my kid. When Good Omens 2 aired, my OFMD friends watched it but I was a month behind because I was finishing up a writing event. After I watched S2, of course I immediately joined all the Facebook GO fan groups and found other GO fans online so we could cry and yell together about the ending and get hooked on all the speculation, fanfics, memes, etc.”

Poetry is a beautiful genre of writing, and our Ineffable Duo’s relationship brought a special inspiration for AlwaysBeMyBaby:

“I write poems to play and experiment with words, to put words together that might not have been put together that way before.

My first Good Omens poems were written for the Scribbling Vaguely Downwards 2024 Valentine’s Day prompts. The prompts included Valentine’s Day imagery like flowers, gifts, hearts, romantic dinners, and bubble baths.

Because of the taboo nature of Aziraphale and Crowley’s relationship, so much had to be unspoken and coded. Their nonhuman essence also means that there is more to them than human language can grasp. Poetry, meanwhile, is a practice of bringing new language into being. So maybe flowers don’t mean a typical Valentine’s Day bouquet for them. Maybe a flower is something fragile and impossible that blooms between them after the scorching fire of the Kiss. Maybe a gift between them is not a pretty trinket. Maybe it is something devastating like a thermos of holy water. I turn to poetry to reach for understanding their mystery.”

Writing poetry and prose are very different, and AlwaysBeMyBaby had this to say when asked about writing both (and which one was easier of the two):

“I hear words as sound and music first, then I see and feel them as the visual and tactile images they evoke. Writing poems feels natural to me because it allows me to listen to the sound of words and to see the images they call forth.

I find writing stories very hard! Plot and dialogue don’t come naturally to me. I admire fiction writers who can keep momentum going with action and blocking and plot, or who can write that delicious banter between our angel and demon.”

AlwaysBeMyBaby’s favorite pairing and writing themes in the Good Omens fandom revolve around a certain angel 😇 and demon😈- obviously 😀: 

“I write primarily about Aziraphale and Crowley because the forbidden aspect of their relationship resonates so much with what many of us have struggled with, whether it’s religious trauma, family expectations, the treatment of queer, interracial, or otherwise taboo relationships, etc. I did write one poem for Shax/Furfur and that was very fun because Shax is so commanding and fierce.”

“In my writing, I try to capture moments between Aziraphale and Crowley that really touch me – moments of tenderness, moments of longing, moments of joy. I also try to capture moments of delight and anticipation for the fandom – anticipation for their happily ever after ending, for example. In capturing a moment, poetry is a form of writing that can stop time.”

Of all the works AlwaysBeMyBaby has written, there are two that stand out as personal favorites:

“I wrote “Rondel: Resistance” in November 2024. It’s about finding and building community even when you yourself feel too tired to fight. There are repeated lines in the form of the rondel, and the repetition gives the poem a feeling of determination.  The second one is “The Demon’s Howl,” written as an homage to Allen Ginsberg’s iconic poem “Howl.” The poem describes the terrors that Crowley witnesses and the hope that he nevertheless harbors. One of my mantras from the book is “Because, underneath it all, Crowley was an optimist” (361). I admire how resourceful our Ineffables are.”

There are a few other fandoms in addition to Good Omens that AlwaysBeMyBaby enjoys participating in with writing - and has an amazing idea that I hope we get to read one day!!

“I've written for the fandoms of Our Flag Means Death, Black Sails, and Good Omens. I would like to write an essay one day about exile and unforgivability in Black Sails and Good Omens.”

AlwaysBeMyBaby has met BOTH David and Michael (so jealous!!!) 

“I made some chapbooks of my Good Omens poems and gave them as gifts to Michael Sheen and David Tennant at cons. I know they get a lot of gifts but they were fun interactions and I think it’s nice for them to see that they inspire creativity in fans.”

Also encourage you to read this work - it’s fantastic!!

“I wrote a song parody of Aziraphale channeling 50 Cent and I would love to do more song parodies and homages.”

Here are a few words of wisdom from AlwaysBeMyBaby for other authors and those aspiring to write:

“Write something that makes *you* feel something–whether it’s sadness, hope, joy, humor–anything. What makes you catch your breath when you read a story or look at a piece of art? Can you create a feeling like that?

Writing is conversation. In your head, you might be saying to your favorite authors, “yes! You gave me courage to try this trope.” You might be saying to Crowley and Aziraphale, “I know you are clever enough to survive this crazy situation.” You might be talking to yourself! That is okay. As a poet, my audience is smaller but I think small communities can be very fruitful.”

Final thoughts?

“In difficult times, it is so important to find and create beauty, joy, humor, and a caring community who will fight for us all. Thank you to all of you for being part of this community.” 

From the Spotlight Author team, and all of the GO fandom, thank you AlwaysBeMyBaby for bringing so much beautiful work to this fandom!!!

Here's some links where you can continue to follow AlwaysBeMyBaby:

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🌟REMINDER!! Questions for Dragonfire42 are due by Sunday, June 15! Please visit the Google link to submit your questions🌟

Our Next Spotlight Author Is...

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The marvelous 🪄Dragonfire42 🪄

@dragonfire42

Dragonfire42 (she/they) is a magician, puppeteer, and grown-up theatre kid who's been in 200 plays over the last 20 years, and recently decided to play in the fanfic sandbox. She wrote over 250,000 words just last year in 30 stories, participated in 7 fanfic/fanart bangs and 3 gift exchanges. She loves writing comedy, light angst, healing stories, and crossovers. Her favorite part about being in the fandom is all the new friends she's made and all the fun encouragement to keep writing!

You can read and see more of Dragonfire42’s incredible talent on AO3 and Tumblr

Everyone will have one week’s time (until Sunday, June 15) to read some - or all - of Dragonfire42’s works and to submit your questions.  We will then share all the author’s exciting answers on Sunday, June 22.

Please submit your questions for the author here:

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Our Next Spotlight Author Is...

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The marvelous 🪄Dragonfire42 🪄

@dragonfire42

Dragonfire42 (she/they) is a magician, puppeteer, and grown-up theatre kid who's been in 200 plays over the last 20 years, and recently decided to play in the fanfic sandbox. She wrote over 250,000 words just last year in 30 stories, participated in 7 fanfic/fanart bangs and 3 gift exchanges. She loves writing comedy, light angst, healing stories, and crossovers. Her favorite part about being in the fandom is all the new friends she's made and all the fun encouragement to keep writing!

You can read and see more of Dragonfire42’s incredible talent on AO3 and Tumblr

Everyone will have one week’s time (until Sunday, June 15) to read some - or all - of Dragonfire42’s works and to submit your questions.  We will then share all the author’s exciting answers on Sunday, June 22.

Please submit your questions for the author here:

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Featured Authors and Posting Schedule

Dragonfire42's Spotlight Author post is now available!! Linked below. Our next Spotlight Author will be introduced on Sunday, June 29.

Links for final posts featuring our Spotlight Authors:

megzseattle

AlwaysBeMyBaby

ShadowsRider - coming soon!!

imposterssyndrome - coming soon!!

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Past Spotlight Author Posts

As mentioned in our pinned post, the Spotlight Author initiative started in a Facebook group. We will share some of those posts here to catch everyone up with our previous featured authors.

Our very first post featured megzseattle and was shared in March '25 Keep reading to learn more about her works both in and out of the GO realm.

Let's learn more about megzseattle’s life outside of the fandom:

“I live in Seattle, WA, with my husband and four cats, and have a kid (also a writer) who attends college in Canada. I work as an occupational therapist for the elderly, and my hobbies include writing novels, constant reading, taking classes, sewing, baking, and pretty much anything creative. I live for good storytelling, in any form—book, fanfic, tv, movie. Stories are magic.”

She first found out about Good Omens years ago from a friend in New York City: 

“We stopped in a huge comics store to look around and he grabbed the book and said, “Oh hey, you have read this book, it’s so funny,” and I bought my first copy that day. I’ve loved it ever since. I still have that original copy, plus many others.”

Of the two seasons of Good Omens that we’ve been given so far, she had this to say when asked which season inspired her GO stories the most: 

“In terms of sheer quantity, I’d have to say season one. I wrote one extremely long thing after season two, partly out of heartbreak and outrage and what they did to our boys. But most of my stories were written in the three years between season one and season two.”

She has been inspired to write ever since she was a child: 

“I’ve been writing since I could hold a crayon, and my mom saved the (embarrassing) evidence. But I got my start writing fanfics when I wrote a very short Doctor Who story on the old fanfiction.net site about how the Tardis might react to being parked near a Starbucks (hint: the Tardis and espresso are a bad combination). This story became the first chapter in a humorous and surprisingly popular series called The Doctor’s Rulebook, and as I expanded from that I became quite hooked on playing with other people’s characters. (Most of the rulebook series is on AO3 now too, at the bottom of my list of works.)”

When writing, she has several favorite themes to weave into her stories: 

“I love writing humor, which you’ll see in my first GO series, The Serpent and the Seagull. While that series deepens and becomes more serious over time, it started as just a way to amuse myself by putting the boys in ridiculous situations to see what they would do.

I love to write about conflict and conflict resolution, found family, magic in everyday life, the difficulty of true intimacy, memory, dealing with loss, being an outsider in traditional society, and transformation. I also love to write about fae stuff (clearly, for anyone who’s read my Faeted trilogy), folklore, and magic systems. 

I try to put LBGTQIA++ characters in as many of my works as I can (and in all of my real life novels) in honor of my lesbian daughter and her friends. 

I do not write spicy scenes –I'm a big fan of the fade-to-black for intimate moments—because my daughter and said friends have haunted my online works for years and I couldn’t mortify her that way. “

Let’s dig into some of the works that megzseattle has created:

Favorite Work/Story? “I’d have to say my “But You Are An Ocean” series, set post season two. I’m really proud of this story and think it’s some of the best work I’ve ever done. (Is it bad to admit I reread it from time to time?) And Faeted part 1 will always be near and dear to my heart, as it was the first novel-length thing I’ve ever written. I learned so much from writing it, and the reaction from its devoted readers was just wonderful.“

Any story that you would like to rewrite? “Yes, actually, two. I’d like to finish the By Any Other Name story, which I somehow lost steam on for the very last chapter, and I’d like to take another crack at Faeted. It was a fanfic first, then I took it down and tried turning it into a novel which meant taking all the Good Omens characters out of it, and when that didn’t sell after a year or so of trying to get agents to read it, I put it back online and tried to restore it to the Good Omens theme it had before, but I know there were some things lost in translation. I'd like to overhaul it one of these days. And I still think about how it could be made into a novel.”

Among the characters, do you have one you enjoy writing about? “I love them all, but as much as I'd say Aziraphale is my first love, I really enjoyed being inside Crowley’s head as I wrote Oceans, post season 2, much more than I’d expected. He’s such a rich, beautiful character. I could write a lot more from his perspective.  And honestly, some of my OCs live rent free in my head -- Freddie the snake from Serpent and the Seagull, Frannie and Evie from Oceans, pregnant Emily from A Faint Touch of Wings, my little immortality sprite Aoife from Faeted 3. We have adventures.”

Who is your favorite GO pairing to write about (and why)?  Do you have others that you write about?  “I’m completely an Ineffable Husbands girl. Right after season one came out, I sat down on AO3 and found that tag and said to myself, “Yep, that’s me, I’ve found my home.” While I do touch on other pairings sometimes (even a polycule family with a human and a magic-wielding demon-angel baby in my “A Faint Hint of Wings” novel-length story), I don’t really write any other central pairings as the main focus of a story. Sorry, no GabrielxBeez from me, although I’m happy to read them.”

In 2019/2020 many stories have song titles. Did you choose the fanfic theme and then find the song about it, or did the song inspire the story?  “I wrote the story first, then tried to find a song title to fit. It all started when I renamed the second chapter in Serpent and the Seagull to Kodachrome. I didn't do it as consistently as I should have -- the story The Bet really should have been "You Better, You Better, You Bet" a l the Who but I missed the ball on that one.”

Here’s some advice/tips from megzseattle for other authors: 

Any words of wisdom for other authors (or aspiring authors)?

“Don’t be afraid to just start writing and sharing your work! I’ve grown a lot as a writer over the years, but I was as scared and unskilled as anyone else at the start. The AO3 community is incredibly welcoming and forgiving. Oh, and please comment on the stories you read – writers love to get your comments, even if it’s just a heart. Commenting consistently on multi-chapter stories you love is a great way to meet other writers and start making writing friends.”

What are the top three things new writers should know as they start writing?

You only learn to write by actually writing. Don’t worry about being perfect at it, just write things and grit your teeth and share them. You’ll learn so much as you go.

Don’t worry too much about the rules—you don’t have to write the scenes of a story in order (I rarely do), you don’t have to always show and not tell. Just write your story. You’ll figure out the rules eventually or learn how to break them better.

Always read your writing out loud before you publish it; use your ear to hear if the dialogue sounds natural, if you’re repeating certain words too much.

What advice do you have for writers who would like to also write and find audiences outside of fanfic? 

Find some writing friends (fanfic groups are a great place for it) who will give you feedback. Read books about editing your own work (I love and learned SO MUCH from "Self Editing for Writers" by Renni Browne). Don’t rush. Be prepared to do a lot of drafts. Read everything you can get your hands on about querying stories or novels, then get out there and try it. You’ll make a lot of mistakes. Stick with it. Every rejection brings you one step closer to a yes. 

She had this to say when asked about any WIPs (works in progress):

“I’m writing less Good Omens works than I used to, mostly because I’ve been writing novels for the last few years in my real life, which has turned out to be an enormous time consumer. My first published novel, The Last Road Trip, came out in December 2024 and I’m finalizing another novel right now. That said, I’ve been itching to get back to GO soon! 

I did start several WIPs and then removed them because I didn’t have the time to really devote to them – one a space opera about Crowley and Aziraphale manning a generation ship on a long journey when humanity leaves Earth, which I’d like to get back to, and one that was a retelling of a Turkish soap opera that I wrote a few chapters of, with Aziraphale in the role of the Suleiman the Great and Crowley as his prized courtesan. While I love the concept, that one I think is dead. “

She has been involved in some other fandoms outside of Good Omens:

“I used to write for Doctor Who post 2005, some of which I ported over to AO3 when I discovered it, but many of which are now just poor, lonely orphans on fanfiction.net. I also wrote a couple short things for Our Flag Means Death. I have so many other shows and books I dearly love but have not written anything for. “

Here’s where you can find more of megzseattle’s work (she’s a published author!!):

“If you follow me on tumblr (@ineffably-good), I still pretty actively post there. You can see a lot of shorter backstory fics I used to post there, like old written-by-request Doctor Who stuff, and an occasional snippet of Good Omens stuff that never turned into a longer story.   And you can find my young adult novel, The Last Road Trip, on Amazon and all the other online sites -- about a 16yo girl and a demon trapped in the body of a goose who steal a scooter and set out cross country to find her estranged older brother in the last six weeks before a comet is due to hit the Earth.“

She has many other talents outside of writing:

“I made a Good Omens quilt (which David Tennant signed!) that you can find on tumblr if you dig, and a few years back I launched an art project I called 30-days-of-GO-ephemera, in which I created online art of various letters, notes, reports, and journal entries Crowley and Aziraphale had written over the years. I should probably get that on AO3 someday, except that putting images on AO3 has always been miserably hard for me to figure out. (If anyone knows how to do this easily please share.) But I will work on that – it was a fun and silly project! 

Here's a link to the first of the ephemera project if anyone wants to find them.”

Final thoughts?

“Just that I honestly think the Good Omens fandom community changed my life in so many ways. In terms of writing skills, enjoying and posting other content, and in just interacting with other fans, I’ve learned so many skills, experienced so many deep emotions, and met so many people this way! You’re hands down my favorite group of people on the internet and I’m delighted to be a part of it.” 

From the Spotlight Author team, and all of the GO fandom, thank you megzseattle SO MUCH for all your amazing works!!! 

Here's some links where you can continue to follow megzseattle:

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Good Omens Spotlight Authors

A new initiative was born in a Facebook group that was designed to highlight any and all fanfiction writers for Good Omens. Due to its success, we are now expanding this campaign to a larger audience. 

Introducing the ✨️GO SPOTLIGHT AUTHOR✨️ blog, where we celebrate all of our talented Good Omens fanfiction writers. 

If you write GO fanfiction or poetry, or any other written word, you are free to sign up to participate - all levels of experience are accepted!!! Or follow along to find out more about your favorite writers in this ineffable fandom 💕

We introduce a new author every 3 weeks (chosen completely at random from our voluntary signup sheet) and they share insight to their writing process, along with other info about their lives and their love for Good Omens.

Click here to find all of our final posts and keep track of when our next author will be featured!!

Here's the signup sheet if you have interest in being featured as one of our next Spotlight Authors: