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Valdemar Re-read	[Oct. 28th, 2014|05:23 pm]The Heralds of Valdemar
[**Current Mood** |bouncy]For those interested, the Tor.com blog will be doing a re-read of the Valdemar books, starting with the Arrows trilogy. ^_^http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/10/follow-your-arrow-the-valdemar-reread#comments
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(no subject)	[Jan. 5th, 2011|09:03 am]The Heralds of Valdemar
[**Current Mood** |irritated]Is there a mod around who can do something about the damned Russian spam? I'd hate to have to defriend this comm, but it's really irritating.
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(no subject)	[Sep. 8th, 2010|02:37 pm]The Heralds of Valdemar
[**Current Mood** |busy]Hello, I thought some of you might be interested in my new fic journal, where you can find delicious NC-17 flavored Van/Stef action. I'll be posting more gen stuff later, but this is the one that I ended up finishing first. ^_^ You can read it here.
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(no subject)	[May. 11th, 2009|06:57 pm]The Heralds of Valdemar
[**Tags**|fanfiction policy]The community profile has been changed, with the fanfiction rules updated: thechosen The new policy is as follows (*copy-pastes from the update*):*All fanfiction should include a header with the following information: title, author, rating, disclaimer (citing Mercedes Lackey as the author and creator of the world of Velgarth, and of her original characters), summary. Authors should feel free to add to this information (like an author's note, for instance) but please be sure to have all these things. Code for header provided below:*Fanfiction posted on the community must be LJ-cut for length after the first 2 paragraphs' preview.*Fanfiction posted to the community must have a PG-13 rating or milder. Anything more graphic can be linked to (please still include the header above) but cannot be directly posted to the community. Places to post the fic include your own journal, fanfiction sites (ff.net), or your own site. Violators will be warned and have 24 hours to remove the fic or it will be deleted.Additionally, if the rating does not match the fic, the author will be notified will have a similar 24 hours to take whatever action the admins have requested.*Fanfiction posted on the community must be LJ-cut for length after the first 2 paragraphs' preview.
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Change in Policy	[May. 11th, 2009|11:28 am]The Heralds of Valdemar
[**Current Mood** |sleepy]As perkyrusalka pointed out in their recent post, it appears that Mercedes Lackey's policy regarding fanfiction has changed quite dramatically and for the better. Directly quoted from her site:"As a result of this, I am happy to announce that we are officially permitting fanfiction to be licensed as derivative fiction under the Creative Commons umbrella.What this means is: NO, you cannot make money on it. NO, you cannot self-publish a fanfiction novel of Valdemar (or any of my other stuff) and try and sell it on Amazon. And NO, I still am not going to read it, because I am already so far behind on my research reading I barely have time to read that.But YES, you may write and post away, folks, so long as you license it as derivative and under Creative Commons. If it is anything other than PG-13, please take all the proper precautions to stick it somewhere that innocent souls won't be corrupted. Do not scare the children or the horses. Have fun!"Source: http://www.mercedeslackey.com/news.htmlEdited to include the following, as there was some discussion:**What is a derivative work?**A derivative work is a work that is based on another work but is not an exact, verbatim copy. What this means exactly and comprehensively is the subject of many law journal articles and much debate and pontification. In general, a translation from one language to another or a film version of a book are examples of derivative works. Under Creative Commons’ core licenses, synching music in timed-relation with a moving image is considered to be a derivative work. It's important to note, however, that the Creative Commons licenses allow the user to exercise the rights permitted under the license in any format or media, even in the NoDerivatives licenses. This means that, under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license, for example, you can copy the work from a digital file to a print file consistent with the terms of that license. Source: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#What_is_a_derivative_work.3F---With the change to Misty's policy, so ours will change as well. Fanfiction -will- be allowed on thechosen provided it follows certain restrictions, which are as follows:* All fanfiction must contain a disclaimer, citing Mercedes Lackey as the author and creator of the world of Velgarth, and of her original characters. * Fanfiction posted on the community must be LJ-cut for length after the first 2 paragraphs' preview. * Fanfiction must not exceed a rating of PG-13. What this means is that I don't really want to see excessive descriptions of blood, guts, gore or gnitty gritty sex scenes. The original novels contain elements of all of these things, but never to what I'd call as disgustingly graphic. I'd like the fanfiction posted on this community to adhere to a similiar policy. If you don't think Misty would include it in her novel, it probably doesn't belong here. At the moment, those are the only three real big things that I could think of. Accepting suggestions for any other policies regarding fanfiction being posting on the community.Thanks again to perkyrusalka for pointing this out.PS: Apparently, the community description was never changed originally from disallowing fanfics, and still said in one of the opening lines, "this community was made to share fanfics and fanart." I find this mildly amusing that it's been like that for years.
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