Orienteering for Beginners - Liriel

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Title: Orienteering For Beginners
Author: liriel1810
Artist: togsos
Archive to Pros Lib: Yes
Genre: Slash
Characters/Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Word count: 21,917
Warnings: None
Summary: Thrown together by Cowley and by chance, it’s loathe at first sight for Bodie and Doyle. Used to operating solo, Doyle is not impressed when he’s put to babysitting a saucy ex-mercenary who is not even part of CI5. When what was supposed to be an easy assignment turns into a race for survival, the two men will have to use their respective skills to work together if they hope to make it home alive. An encounter with an angry stoat will be the least of their worries as they struggle to surmount the increasing obstacles in their way. The experience will leave neither man untouched, but it remains to be seen whether they’ll acknowledge the impact it has made.

Notes: Author’s Note1: With special thanks to dawnebeth for the medical information and the quick once over for Brit-checking and to silvan_lady for the location information. My undying gratitude to my brilliant beta, catlover2x who talked me down from the metaphorical ledge when I was ready to chuck it all in because I couldn’t work out what the hell I was doing with the story. A very big thank you to togsos for the lovely artwork. I am in absolute awe of your talent. And thank you also to the mods for organizing and keeping spirits up and motivated.
Author’s Note2: Quote is from Hamlet.

Link to Fic: Fic Master Post/Orienteering For Beginners
Link to Art: Art Master Post
Link to RTF files: RTF Files for e-readers

Comments

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Thanks to RL insanity *shakes little fist at RL* I am already ridiculously far behind on BB reading. You've been Kindleized -- shush, I know it didn't hurt that much -- and I look forward to reading. :D

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

You've been Kindleized

And here I thought it was just me coming down with the flu again. ;P

RL can be a real bite in the arse sometimes, can't it? Particularly when there's all this luscious reading to do... and no time to read. :( I haven't managed any BB reading at all yet... but I'm determined that's going to change this weekend!

I hope you enjoy the story once RL finally gives you some breathing room (or should that be reading room?) :)

Kindles

[anna060957.livejournal.com]

Sorry to be asking just a weird question, but I'm intrigued by the comments about Kindles. I had it in my head that you could only read "proper" books on Kindles. From what you are saying you can download your own stuff. I've been thinking of getting a Kindle - lured by the £89 price tag as well as its development over the last couple of years - reading in sunshine, etc, etc. Obviously I need to do a bit more research, but maybe you could help? I'd be really grateful for a push in the right direction. Not only would it be incredibly convenient, downloading fic would save a forest of trees, gallons of ink and probably 10 square metres of storage room!!!


PS - loving the Big Bang stories - way behind, but savouring each one.

Re: Kindles

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Yes, you can dl your own stuff to a Kindle as well as buy books from Amazon or dl public domain books from places like the Gutenberg project.

In order to put fan fiction on your Kindle you'll need to dl an e-book managment software on to your computer. I recommend Calibre which is free shareware and does an excellent job. If you want to dl a fan fiction story from LJ or the like you copy and paste in to a Word document, save it as a RTF file and then use Calibre to convert it in one easy click to MOBI which is the software Kindle most easily recognizes.

IF you want to dl fan fiction from Archive of Our Own, ALL of the stories on that site have a download button in the upper right hand corner. You click on that button, pick the MOBI format and you don't even have to convert it.

More and more of the people I know are choosing to Kindle (or another e-reader) their fan fiction habit for longer fiction as many find reading longer fic on the computer uncomfortable and don't want to waste all that paper printing it out. Also, the Kindle is a very unobtrusive way to carry FF around with you and you can password lock it so noone else can see what's on your kindle unless you want them to.