Hey gang, I know it's been a while, but something kinda happened that shattered my confidence in this and I spent a few months reeling from it.

Here's a quick sum up, I'll provide links when I can.
Also, some of you may already know this if you are a member of Hp_Fringeart

Basically one HP fan did illustrations for every chapter in the first book. They were phenomenal and you need to see them (again I'll get links when I have more time, because yeah if you've not seen this HOLY COW! It's awesome!).

Anyway, right he collected these illustrations into a very nice hard cover book and sent it to JKR.

She sent it back.
Or rather her agents did. And from the note he got, there's no indication she ever even saw it. It was something like blah blah blah very busy blah blah blah no room blah blha blah we thought you'd want your gift back.


You can maybe kinda see where this might cause me some pause, yes? ;
Here someone did basically what we are doing and JKR didn't, as far as I can tell, even see it let alone accept it.

Now, yes I realize she gets lots of fan mail and probably does get lots of gifts, so I'm not trying to be bitter here, BUT I'm putting a lot of work into this, you guys are putting a lot of work into this. Having the book mailed back to me without JKR even seeing it would be . . . . well I'd be crushed. Actually crushed probably doesn't even cover it.

Plus I'd feel like I cheated you guys because you gave money to this with a specific end result in mind and I can no longer say that end result will happen (see this is why god prevented me from taking up money YAY)



SO WHAT IM DOING ABOUT IT!
Currently, I'm trying to contact Mellissa and just see if there's maybe a better place to send it or if perhaps his attempt was viewed as a commercial endeavor or if the whole Lexicon thing soured her to fandom books. Who knows.

Once I either hear from her or give up trying to contact her, I'll open this up to discussions on what we want to do based on the info I've gathered.

For right now, because as I said, I can't promise the end result y'all were willing to pay for, I'm further putting on held taking up money until I get this sorted out (One solution, should it be determined that she will not accept or keep a book as been to create a website and send the link to her in a letter).

But like I said I want to try and contact Mellissa (of TLC) first and hopefully find a way to still make this work as planned.


So yeah, that's a bit disappointing for me, but that's where things stand.
I will keep you guys updated as I learn things.