If anyone wants to read my first piece of published fiction outside of fanzines, you can find it in 'Dracula in London' an anthology of Dracula stories edited by PN Elrod. Dracula gets to meet various people in London, both fictional and historical. In my case, he met the actress Ellen Terry.

Ellen was a real person, and I read her letters before writing the story. What I hadn't known beforehand, which therefore rates as a truely major coincidence, is that Bram Stoker (who wrote Dracula) was Henry Irving's manager. (Henry was Ellen's partner) Stoker thus gets a walk-on part in the story.

If you want to know any more, see:

http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7/Merchant/Books/Dracula.html

Judith