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Storm Tide is a revision of an earlier Pros zine by Madelaine Ingram titled Flood Tide. It was published as a Pros zine by Nut Hatch, a press that Jane ran for a majority of its existence. Flood Tide was only available in zine format, never on the paper Circuit or the Proslib CD or online.

There is ongoing debate about how many of the authors published by Nut Hatch Press were really separate people and how many were Jane's pseudonyms. Jane, herself, on numerous occasions said that Jane, Kathy Keegan & Madelaine Ingram were separate people. Others have disputed that, but I've never actually seen proof or statements from people who knew Jane in person to settle the issue.

Many of Jane's stories were freely available on the Circuit, or after being zine published were released to the Circuit or later put online at the archives. However, the Pros novels and novellas that were later revised, had the "serial numbers filed off" and were published as Mel Keegan's "original" m/m stories were, by and large, previously only available in zine format.

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I put together a bit of a list of Mel Keegan novels that started life as Pros stories not so long ago.

I know I posted it to one of the comms, I'll have to see if I can track it down!

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byslantedlight.livejournal.com

Ooh - I was posting at exactly the same time as you, and said how useful one of those would be! Please do track it down! *g*

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Found it!

It was in a comment posted in response to

taverymate's DiaLJ post which she links to in her comment below.

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Thank you for your help.

I don't know where I'd be without the experience and knowledge of you old-hands.

I have contacted you about the Flood Tide zine - didn't realise it was you until I was just responding to the answers to my query.

Once again, many thanks.

Marjoram Max

Edited Date: 2012-03-10 07:12 pm (UTC)

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I have contacted you about the Flood Tide zine

Oh, when was that? Recently?

Sorry, I sometimes tend to have a memory like a sieve. Have you been waiting for a response from me? If so, many apologies - would you like to get in touch again?

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I am always astounded by how fast my queries get responded to here on Prosfinder, but I don't think even you wonderful people can be that fast - the email was still sitting in my outbox and has only just gone. You should have it soon.

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Aha!

It's just arrived! *g*

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Until

byslantedlight's reply to your comment on the

discoveredinalj post triggered a LJ notification email to me, I never knew you had commented.

I really appreciate comments and try to always reply, so I'm very sorry I was never notified that you had commented. I'm off to rectify that delay now.

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Your reply to

londonronnie's comment on my

discoveredinalj post triggered a LJ notification email to me. And that was the FIRST time I was notified that

londonronnie had commented on that post!

The LJ notification had me puzzled at first - I thought it was a reply to my comment here and I came looking for both your reply and

londonronnie's comment. Of course, then I couldn't find them. *g*

Finally, it dawned on me to check the actual URL - in my defense, it was late and I was lacking in caffeine *G* - and I figured out what had happened. Now I need to go reply to several comments that I never knew existed on that post.

So thanks. Without you, those comments would have languished without replies for who know how much longer.

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byslantedlight.livejournal.com

How funny that you discovered Pros the other-way-around from Jane's filed-off-serial-number stories!

There's a bit written about the connection here (http://www.palelyloitering.com/Authors/KathyKeegan.html), and there's a list of Jane's stories here (http://www.palelyloitering.com/Authors/Jane.html) - you'll recognise some of the titles!

Windrage is Nothing Left to Lose (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/4/nothingleft.html) (There's some chat about it over here (http://ci5hq.livejournal.com/1712.html#comments) including rumours of a sequel which I don't think we ever heard more about...)

There's been various chat over the years about the different stories, but I can't remember them all now... I know I found The Swordsman (http://www.palelyloitering.com/zines/othertimesandplacesiv.html) to be almost identical with a story that was up on Mel Keegan's site (from the excerpt), and I could have sworn I posted about that somewhere, but can't findn it...

It'd be quite useful to have a list of all these, actually - hopefully someone with a better memory than me will jump in!

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Thank you for your reply (and for your super fast add to loiteringpalely).

I've had these two Mel Keegan print books, and several ebooks, for years and never thought anything of it (always assumed it was a man). Then when I was browsing the Circuit Archive I saw Ice, Wind and Fire as a prequel to Whistling in the Dark and thought "hang on a mo, I recognise that title".

I've always enjoyed Mel's books, but now that I know they are Pros based ... I have to read the Pros stories.

Although one of the oldest fandoms (I still struggle to believe these kinds of story - slash - were written 30 years ago - shows how naive I am) I resisted being drawn in because I thought there was no way I'd enjoy, let alone become hooked on, something that old. How wrong was I?

I'm still so new to Pros fandom, and there is still so much to find my way around. I'd be floundering without all you old-hands being very kind and helpful to the newbie.

So, thank you very much.

Marjoram Max

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Several years ago I compiled a (nearly) complete listing of all Jane and Kathy Keegan's Pros stories & where they were originally published. I updated the list this past Dec as part of the Discovered in a LJ winter challenge.

Here's the list:
http://discoveredinalj.livejournal.com/229430.html

Off the top of my head, I know that the following Pros stories were later revised & published as original m/m fiction by Mel Keegan. Some only had the character names changed and others were substantially revised. Most had the same title as the Pros stories/zines, but some had new titles.

FANTAZINE 5 (1993, Nut Hatch Collective; oop)
Aquamarine by Jane - Same title

OTHER TIMES AND PLACES VI (1995, OTP Press; available from Kathleen Resch & Waveney Zine Shop)
Breakheart by Jane - Same title

FANTAZINE 4 (1992, Nut Hatch Collective; oop)
An East Wind Blowing by Jane - Same title

CROSS MY HEART 1 (1987, Nut Hatch Collective; oop)
Ice, Wind and Fire by Kathy Keegan - Same title

A MADRIGAL by Jane (1987, Nut Hatch Collective; oop) - This was published under the new title Fortunes of War by Mel Keegan

THE PERFECT GENTLEMEN by Jane (1991, Nut Hatch Collective; oop) - This was published under the new title Dangerous Moonlight by Mel Keegan

THE SWORDSMAN by Jane (1993, Nut Hatch Collective; oop) - Same title

UNFINISHED MELODY by Jane (1988, Nut Hatch Collective; oop) - The was published under the new title Nocturne by Mel Keegan

There are more, but I'd have to check files to get the info and don't have the time now.

Hope that gets you started.

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Thank you so much for your detailed response. I can see I have quite a way to go before I've read all the Pros versions (and there are more, you say ...)

I've just got to keep reminding myself that these will have to wait until after my BB story is finished.

Once again, many thanks.

Marjoram Max

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