J.M.J.

Hello there! Welcome to my profile! I used to be simply hbndgirl, but I never liked that all that well, so I'm in the transition period of changing it to Elizabeth Joan, a sort-of pen name, but I'm leaving the hbndgirl for the present so that people will recognize me.

I am now graduated from college with a degree in English and have self-published a few short children's books under my own name (if you happen to be interested in those, feel free to PM me for details). However, none of that has dampened my love of writing fanfiction.

I primarily write Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew. I'm mostly a fan of the blue spine/yellow spine books and HeR Interactive's PC games, but I have read books from almost every Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew series published and I've watched most of the movies and TV shows. I use elements from all of these, but I have to say, I sort of borderline cannot stand the Hardy Boys Casefiles or the Nancy Drew Files. I know they're favorites of many of the fans on this website, so I will respectfully not bash them, but I don't use the whole Iola died storyline ever and when Vanessa appears in my stories, she is usually not a serious love interest for Joe.

Speaking of love and romance and all that, some of my stories do have romantic subplots. However, any and all romance is strictly rated K. Even though most of my stories are rated T, that's for violence (I don't feel like any of my stories are violent enough to be rated T, but after reading the rating explanations on this website, I kind of feel like I have to rate it T if there's any violence at all). There's a couple of reasons for this. For one thing, I don't feel like it would be appropriate for there to be any romance rated higher than K in fanfiction for a series of children's books and will possibly have younger kids reading it. For another, I don't feel comfortable either reading or writing stories that have overtly sexual scenes in them. Finally, romance tends to take over a lot of fanfiction, and to me, the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew should be about the mysteries, not the romance (one of the reasons why the Casefiles/Files/SuperMysteries have never really spoken to me).

I also occasionally write stories for other fandoms. I have one for The Chronicles of Narnia that is now complete. I hope to write more Narnia stories in the future, but we'll just have to wait and see how that goes. I also have one that is a crossover for Emergency! and Adam-12 which is complete. I'm not super proud of it, but if you're interested, you might want to check it out. I'd like to write a better fanfics for these series, as they are some of my favorites (yeah, I'm kind of a nerd about '60s and '70s TV shows). I also have a little plan for a fanfic (or maybe a trilogy of fics) for another series, but I'll see what happens there before I say anymore.

Finally, I am a Catholic, and that sometimes becomes apparent in my stories (none of my stories support anything that is opposed to Catholicism). My most especially obvious stories like this are the later ones in the Chapters series (especially The Legacy of Private Wilson) and throughout the White Roses series. If that bothers you, please don't read those series, or at least, only read the first three of Chapters. And if you read it anyway, please don't leave nasty reviews that insult my Faith. This isn't the place for it (there really isn't any place for that), as it is important that authors be able to write their own ideas and the focus should be on the stories themselves. On the other hand, I'm always up for a good discussion with no insults or nastiness if you have questions!

You can check out my stories down below. I'm working on a series called White Roses. The reason for the title will be more apparent as the series goes on. It is, at the base of it, a rewrite of my earlier series, the Chapters series, but it's pretty drastically changed. The overarching storyline and the OCs, as well as a few major plot points from various stories, are pretty well the only things it has in common with Chapters. Because of that, I'm leaving Chapters up exactly how I published each of the stories within it. However, I've always felt that that was a series I could have done much better, and this rewrite is my attempt at doing it. It's just that, after thinking about it for several years now (counting the time that I was writing Chapters), my original ideas have changed and grown.

Obviously, I don't own the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew. I'd be absolutely thrilled if I could somehow land the gig of writing the published books, but even then, I still wouldn't own them. The best I can ever do is to borrow these characters and try my best to do right by them. I hope you enjoy what I've written about them.

~Elizabeth Joan