Accounts at fanficauthors.net are invite only. This site is not, and never will be, a publically available fanfiction archive. It was started by Jeconais and Crys as a place to hold their own fanfiction as other sites would no longer do so. From there it has grown organically as we have invited authors we respect to join us.

We are aware of other archives and we do read fanfiction as well. When we look at inviting new authors, we look at published works and peoples reponse to it. The only way to get an invitation is to write fanfiction, write it well, and have something that is different or unique about your work.

The code that runs these sites started off as a way of creating a static HTML archive for uploading to Jeconais' Yahoo! Group. The code was soon changed to be more interactive and bits and pieces were added to the site as they were needed - and as Jeconais had time to code them.

After the latest rewrite, the site is pure php, running on apache and a medieval version of MySQL (3.23). In order to keep backwards compatibility, the html files call a php file as a server side include.

The code itself is currently not available. To make Jeconais' life easier it uses several dirty hacks behind the scenes to allow one set of files to run all the .fanficauthors.net sites. At some stage, Jeconais is planning on fixing these hacks, adding a Postgres database option and creating a stand-alone package that will run on any LAMP/LAPP server, but that is not a priority at the moment.

First, try this script. If it does not work, contact . If you have any error messages, please be sure to include them in the email.

At the top of every page on any of the Author Sites is a link to "Register/Login" (or "Email Alerts" if you are logged in). You can sign up there.

If you've found a bug, please check the Known Bugs thread, and if you can't find it there, report it here. When you report a bug, please make sure you give a full description of what you tried to do, what was supposed to happen, and what actually happened. At the same time, please make sure that you include any error messages that you receive. Any bug reports that simply says "It doesn't work" will be ignored.

First check that the email address you signed up with is correct. If you type it into the email box on any of the "Register/Login" pages, and you are using a modern browser with JavaScript turned on, it will tell you instantly if your email exists or not.

If you have a request for a new feature, feel free to ask about it in the Forum.

With the exception of the infrequent newsletter, we don't like sending out unsolicited news letters, and as we grow, and add more authors, there will without doubt be authors from other fandoms that people won't be interested in.

We do, now. http://forum.fanficauthors.net - it's on a completely different server, so it won't have any affect on this one.