Notice Regarding Out of the Dark

[KassXF]

As I was just accused of having cribbed from both Diana Williams and Xanthe, I
would like to publicly state that Out of the Dark, although only recently
'zined, was written and posted in late 1997 and very early 1998. My last gen
piece was the finale of the Complicated Shadows trilogy, Deus Ex Machina, and
shortly after that, having worked on Out of the Dark at the same time as
Playing For Keeps, I put Out of the Dark up on a Kassandra web page.

kass, mighty mighty annoyed right now

[Ally112038]

I'll vouch for ya Kass (Not that you probably need me to!) I read Out of the
Dark a LONG time ago, probably at around the time you first posted it I would
guess. It was one of the first ever fics I read and I loved it....in fact I
have a sudden urge to go re-read it!
Where is it archived these days?
On a side note, I think that it's inevitable now, that with the volume of fic
out there that parallels will occasionally be drawn with someone else's work.
It doesn't necessarily mean that any dishonesty was involved and maybe people
shouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions. It could happen to any one of
us. I'm just coming to the end of a 24 chapter case file and I chose not to
post it as a wip - one of my own personal versions of hell is for someone to
have had the same premise for the case file and post thier story the week
before mine!
okay - it's unlikely to happen, but this is TXF after all........
Ally
x

[DBKate2]

Re: "Out of The Dark" by Kassandra

>As I was just accused of having cribbed from both Diana Williams and Xanthe,

This is insane, as OoTD was posted long before either of these writers started
posting. If there *is* influencing (beats me, as I've never read the works
of either author)... logically, it can only be the other way around.

Kate

[stillwater16]

i read 'out of the dark' *years* ago, probably on its first posting, and it
predates the works of xanthe and diana williams.

someone is under a misapprehension.

stillwater16

--
never mess with a master of martial arts and crafts.
http://home.earthlink.net/~stillwater16

[Cynthia Hoffman]

And people wonder why history repeats itself ...

FWIW Kass, sometimes when dealing with people like this, I find it helpful
to remember that Sturgeon's Law can be applied to humanity as well as
books.

Cynthia

On 4 Jun 2000, KassXF wrote:

> As I was just accused of having cribbed from both Diana Williams and Xanthe, I

[KassXF]

Thanks, all. I just wanted to nip this one in the bud publicly.

kass