When Hope Despairs

[longstrt.livejournal.com]

Title: When Hope Despairs
Author: longstrt
Artist: snailbones
Archive to Pros Lib: Yes
Genre: Slash
Characters/Pairing: Bodie/Doyle; Doyle/m
Word Count: 51,732
Warnings: Frequent mention of a certain bodily function.

Summary: Ray Doyle finds someone else to love after he chooses to split from his CI5 partner, Bodie. Justin St. Hilary offers him many things that Bodie didn’t, including an opportunity to make art his life’s work. Bodie discovers that Doyle’s interest in someone else makes him a very unhappy camper. In fact, seeing the two men together makes Bodie decide to change his plans for the future.
Notes: Thanks to Snailbones for her absolutely wonderful artwork. She did a fabulous job and was wonderful to work with.

Link to Fic: Fic Master Post



Link to Art: Art Master Post Snailbones will be posting her wonderful art separately, but I wanted you to have a second chance to see how well her art goes with the story.

Comments

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I shall look forward to reading this! That art work is absolutely gorgeous and definitely teases for the story. *g* Well done on the accomplishment!

Snailbones did a great job

[longstrt.livejournal.com]

You are so right about the artwork, she did a wonderful job. I hope that you enjoy the story. Thanks for writing.

lbc

[sw33n3y.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on posting! I like the summary, but I've also just read the beginning and I'm intrigued. :D

I'm glad the beginning intriguing

[longstrt.livejournal.com]

I always find the beginning hard to begin, but I got this idea thinking about how unhappy Bodie was. Hope you like the story. Thanks for writing.

lbc

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Downloaded and ready to go after one more story! Thanks for this.

Thank you

[longstrt.livejournal.com]

You mentioned that you downloaded the story; I would love to be able to do that, but I've never done it before. I do hope that you enjoy reading it.
lbc

Re: Thank you

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Well I'm the least technical person I know, never even used a washing machine until I was in my 40s(!), don't drive, etc. so if I can do it, anyone can! Assuming we're talking kindles, here? Admittedly, initially, I had to have help and have it explained to me but once you have Calibre it's not hard to do it. I'm useless at explaining things, especially if I don't understand the process properly, but I'm sure if you post to one of the comms asking for help someone would respond and explain it clearly.

[ali15son.livejournal.com]

thankyou for a wonderful story ..i thoroughly enjoyed it .

Thank you for that comment

[longstrt.livejournal.com]

It was very kind of you to send the note. Thank you so much for reading the story.

lbc

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to the story!!!

Hope you enjoy it

[longstrt.livejournal.com]

There are so many stories to read. I hope that you enjoy mine. Thanks for the note.

lbc

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Yay, new fic! Thanks so much for joining us. Am downloading now.

Thanks for the comment

[longstrt.livejournal.com]

Downloading it is such a good idea. Reading off the screen makes it more difficult, but I really appreciate it that you're taking the time to read it.
lbc

[cloudless-9193.livejournal.com]

Frequent mention of a certain bodily function sounds interesting. ;-) I like the plot and I'm looking forward to reading this.

Bodily functions abound

[longstrt.livejournal.com]

In many ways the bodily functions are the heart and soul of the whole story. Hope you enjoy the story and find out why. Thanks for writing.
lbc

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Massive congrats on posting and this sounds wonderful, I can't wait to give it a read.

I was beginning to wonder

[longstrt.livejournal.com]

It took me 3 hours to finally post. I couldn't get it to format correctly, but finally manipulated it so that it would look okay.
Thanks for the note.

lbc

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Well done! I've finally read it. I'm glad you didn't make Justin a villain but equally glad he and Ray parted ways! We don't often get novels nowadays in the fandom and I love long stories. I snuggle up with them on my Kindle!

I see you've had a few mentions of downloading. Once a story is on AO3 you can choose to download it in various formats - just 'click' on the 'download' button (top right in the AO3 page) and it will give you options e.g. mobi for Kindle, e-pub for others or pdf or html to convert for yet other e-readers. Calibre is a free program you can download to your computer - it will convert pdf to whatever you need and then upload it to your e-reader, or it will just upload a format AO3 has already converted. It also organises your 'library' so you can keep e.g. all the big bang stories in it, with some of the art for their 'covers' and make notes about each one. You are even encouraged to 'grade' them with stars, and tag them so that they're easy to find. Try it - it's free so you can't really lose, and use one of your own stories to experiment. And if you have problems, just ask. A lot of the fandom use it and can help!