Sing My Heart - by Judes

[judesmk.livejournal.com]

Title: Sing My Heart
Author: judesmk
Artist: mella68
Archive to Pros Lib: Yes
Genre:  Slash
Characters/Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Word count: 53,161

Summary: William Bodie, successful theatre producer, is looking for a lead singer for his new production. Ray Doyle, aspiring singer, is looking for fame and fortune. Will they be able to help each other?  Will their relationship recover from their initial encounters? 
 
Notes: I'd like to thank Mella68 for the artwork and for her cooperation in achieving what this writer requested.  I'd also like to thank SS, my editor, for her dedication in making me tell this story and then in pulling the spelling, grammar and consistency into shape.  Of course, any remaining errors are purely mine.  And I mustn't forget ILWB, who led the cheering section, getting me to this point.

To the moderators, thank you for your assistance and understanding.  Your information posts were always helpful.  To the other writers in the Big Bang 2011, I'm in awe.  
 
Link to Fic: "http://archiveofourown.org/works/270274"
Link to Art: "http://archiveofourown.org/collections/Pros_Big_Bang_2011/works/237253"

Comments

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

The artwork is beautiful - I'm looking forward to reading it, thank you, and congratulations on posting. *beams*

[mella68.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for your kind words about the artwork.

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Congrats on posting! This sounds fantastic and I an off to download now.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your participation. I'm looking forward to reading your story. Great art! Very nice.

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

This does look interesting and if it's anything like the artwork it's going to be a great read. Thank you for keeping non-writers like me entertained and very happy!

[mella68.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you like my artwork. Thank you!

[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

Well done darlin, and it's such a biggie! Can't wait to read it in full. And I totally love Mella's artwork, which is gorgeous!

[mella68.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the nice comment about the artwork.

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

Great art. I love this type of AU. Yummy.

[mella68.livejournal.com]

Thank you, glad you like my artwork.

[ci5mates.livejournal.com]

Well done Judes and congrats for getting it posted. The art work is wonderful. Well done Mella68, that cover piccie is gorgeous and I love how the background flows around their images and is so soft on the edges. Great composition.

[mella68.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the nice comment about my artwork.

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

The artwork is really beautiful. I've downloaded and am looking forward to reading. I love AU stories.

[mella68.livejournal.com]

Thank you, glad you like the artwork.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Congratulations for getting your story posted. I know it's been a long road but time to put your feet up and have a cuppa or something stronger. :D

[angel-ci5.livejournal.com]

I'm waaaaay behind on BB reading, but am safely storing your story on my kindle. I love the summary, it sounds brilliant, and the art work is gorgeous!
Thank you!

[mella68.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the nice comment about my artwork.

[angel-ci5.livejournal.com]

I've now read the story, and really appreciate how your lovely artwork compliments it, thanks again!

[angel-ci5.livejournal.com]

This was a fantastic read! I adore AUs and this was just my cup of tea! I loved the roles you gave Bodie and Doyle and the other agents, and I thought all the Pros references you incorporated into the story were completely brilliant and so cleverly done.

And having read the story, I really appreciate how beautifully the artwork compliments it.

Thank you very much!

[judesmk.livejournal.com]

And thank you so very much for taking the trouble to come back to the thread. I'm glad you enjoyed the tying in of CI5 characters. I had great fun deciding what roles they should play. And even though this is an AU, it is still very much a Bodie and Doyle story so there needed to be connections - well, at least I thought so.

I also totally agree with the way in which Mella's artwork complimented the story. She did both pieces after only seeing the first third of the story. Amazing!

[unoriginal-liz.livejournal.com]

This was such a fun story :) I loved all the little nods to Pros canon - the new roles for all the characters, down to the name of Bodie's musical :) Thanks for a great read!

[judesmk.livejournal.com]

Thank you SO very much. I had great fun deciding where to place familiar names.

[cloudless-9193.livejournal.com]

This is a very unusual plot, makes me think of Torch Song by Courtney Gray. I'm looking forward to reading it.
The artwork is impressive, the montage, the texture, and above all I love the coloring. A beautiful piece of art. The pink teddybear looks great, btw. ;-)

[judesmk.livejournal.com]

Mella did a beautiful job on the artwork - and was working from only the first 16k words. The pink teddy bear was a bit of an accident as in the original text it was purple! But a minor colour problem later, it was a matter of moments to amend the text to match. And no matter the colour, it is still an ugly teddy bear, just as described.

[mella68.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your nice comment about the artwork, especially the pink teddy. Like judes said, it was a mistake on my side, cause I mixed up pink and purple (german here). Judes was so nice and changed it in her story. Thank you, hon.

[judesmk.livejournal.com]

I don't think the pink teddy was a mistake. Yes, I originally wrote a purple teddy but the story simply called for an ugly and lurid bear and you certainly found a picture of one of the ugliest bears I have ever seen and the pink is certainly lurid. It was no hardship at all to change purple to pink in the text - all of two replacements if I remember correctly.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for sharing this! It's not the rough and tumble CI5 world, but I really liked the look backstage and how well Bodie and Doyle were adapted for the world of theater. They totally fit.

Also enjoyed Mella's artwork and how well it incorporates the key points of the story. I also love the smudge effect, although I don't know what you call that (the smudge effect?).



Thanks very much - and congrats! :D

[judesmk.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your comments. I'm really glad you enjoyed the story. I promise to get to yours in the not too distant future.

And I happen to have been interviewed for a job at the Royal Lancaster so I knew the layout pretty well - not that I used much of it - but it made a change from Theatreland restaurants.

[mella68.livejournal.com]

Is my artwork with smudge effect? I don't know. I just knew the light color fits the story. Thank you so much for your nice comment about the art.

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

That was wonderful! I kept putting it down so that I wouldn't reach the end too fast and then grabbing it again because I couldn't wait. (I put it on my Kindle.) I loved the fascinating glimpses of the theatrical world and the way our lads were seamlessly transferred into it, with their own characters and voices but up against a very different set of problems. I also liked the way you wove tiny details of the crime investigator's life into the story, in the accountancy fraud, the problems at the manor and Veronica's blackmail attempt. A truly great AU.

This was so well written. It would make a really good 'original' novel, with the serial numbers suitably filed off, of course. Rather like Larton!! Have you considered it? You should - there are quite a few m/m e-book publishers who would, I think, be only too pleased with it.

The art is gorgeous and I have saved the 'cover' to use as the virtual cover on Calibre, the program I use to store my 'keepers' and convert them for Kindle viewing.

Thank you both so much for a great deal of pleasure!

[judesmk.livejournal.com]

I am so very touched by your comments. Thank you. And I'm sure the artwork will find its way to one of my walls in the not too distant future.

[mella68.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much about the nice comment about the artwork.

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

This was a very fun read. I love the way you weaved "canon" into the story. The developing relationship between B&D was a very sweet love story. This was very well written.

I love the artwork. The pink Teddy-bear made me smile (although I'm not sure he deserved his fate! *g*) The montages were beautiful.

Well done, both of you! Join us for chocolate!

[mella68.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. I'm glad you like my artwork, especially the pink teddy.

[judesmk.livejournal.com]

I'm so very glad you enjoyed it. Mella truly captured the essence of the story in her artwork and found that wonderful teddy.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed your story. It was an interesting AU with the lads in such different roles. Nicely done. Thank you!

[judesmk.livejournal.com]

I had great fun writing it. Thank you.

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

As Bodie and Doyle were falling in love, I too fell in love with this story. I enjoyed so much about it: the theatrical background, the familiar CI5 characters who could fit effortlessly into a totally different world and particularly the main characters of Bodie and Doyle. I could really see Bodie as some kind of ambitious impressario, but one who, given half a chance, could become a carefree little boy again. Most of all I really liked the plausible way you depicted their falling in love: not ridiculously quickly as some stories would have it but you struck up a good pace, one which teased enough to maintain the reader's interest but wasn’t over long. Great storyline, too!

Thanks for all your hard work here.

[judesmk.livejournal.com]

Thank you so very much for your comments. I'm delighted that you enjoyed it.

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

Hi:

I don't think we have anything of yours in Proslib, unless you've used a different name.

Would you let me know if there's any contact information you'd like to include, please.

Frances
Proslib business: proslib at gmail dot com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proslib
http://www.livejournal.com/users/hagsrus/

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

That was such a fun read - thank you! And having read it, I can see how wonderfully the artwork fits it too.

I love the way you've bent the CI5 crew to fit different roles; I fell instantly in love with Doyle's Mum; and the gentle slow romancing and falling in love was realistic, sweet and believable.

Thank you for writing and sharing it with us.

Thank you ...

[judesmk.livejournal.com]

... for your very kind comments. I enjoyed finding roles for the various CI5 characters and deciding how they would behave in this strange, new world. I don't know where Doyle's Mum came from - she was just there and I love her to bits. And I wanted to tell a romantic story so I'm glad you found it believable.

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, what I wanted to say, too: Involvement is such a perfect play for them!! GREAT idea!
WONDERFUL story and wonderful artwork!!
Thanks so much for sharing!

[judesmk.livejournal.com]

I thought Involvement worked well both as a title and as a plot, even though the plot isn't really revealed in the story. But I can't take total credit for its use. My editor came up with the idea, I just agreed with her.

And you are SO right about the artwork. I loved it.