| Joni Latham | |
|---|---|
| Pen names | Cousin Joni
Joni (by joni) |
| Born | 1958 |
| Place of birth | Denton, Texas |
| Official website | |
About Joni's Interesting History
Joni Latham is an author of Forever Knight fan fiction; as also she stood in as the editor in part with Twilight Times in the era when she was with AuthorsDen.com. Joni's edits are fact checked against her alma mata Twilight Times and her AuthorsDen location. In recent years she hangs on Disqus.com too. She and her publisher stayed in touch over the years.
Her advocacy is known with her publisher's circles as his friends were vocal about dog wellfare. Her alma mata is followed by Leigh McQueen of Another Dimensions Magazine. So the relationship with the New Weird is confirmed by her too as she connected with her publisher and colleagues. This will be their facebook for more information.
In 2002 she introduced this fandom to AuthorsDen.com. Some in New Weird will see her as she was also double duty as the designer for Twilight Times in the era when she emerged in the fan circuits. She could easy been the first from this circuit to be published within the New Weird circles in 2004 within the short form delivery-- around the time when Judith Freudenthal passed away. Her original output plays with either High Fantasy or Gothic Horror. Fanlore.org had been following her activity before they knew her ties to the New Weird.
Her Relationship With The New Weird
Author's Den photo; this would been the era she introduced one of her Forever Knight outings. The reason she was well received she treated it like it was part of the Horror Genre without erotic content. She has a science background and at the time she was with Verizon. Mick, her, Lorcan Campbell are the same age.
The Twilight Zone, Edgar Allan Poe, and some of the other genre fandoms were getting tapped between 2004-2007. It will be known since the beginnings of AuthorsDen.com; this fandom is noted to be the first fandom in the genre based to see published authors in their own right. Writers on Twilight Times know of her by first name as she was billed as By Joni with graphic design work (her website in this era fizzled out as her publisher of the novel she did well that's also fizzled.)
As everyone is reading about E. L. James with Twilight and her piece it was before this was published, the crackfic guilty party was also engaging in this practice. Fanlore was a bit torqued when the edits on certain pages became barrages of truth telling; they were responding to the way RationalWiki gets when they point out certain things.
Her return to the anthology arena came when E. L. James was making the rounds lifting Twilight. Some fandoms accused her of this; but everyone in the small press whose worked with her vouched that's further from the truth. She's been part of the Denton Writer's Clinic and a much of her involvement from the New Weird originates in this. She did the final edits for one of the cult writers who introduced creative nonfiction to the fold in 2002; as she came to Fanfiction.net in 2004 after seeing the widely debated short story in this era as this was even tested on Carol Serling; Fan History even discussed this -- the debate 'Is this Original or Fanfiction? Oh fuck it had traits of both, the setting was his 6th grade home and a family named Serling moving to the area based upon a photo he took."
The huge surprise Rod's daughter connected with him and one of his 2005 era breakouts. She appeared when one of the writers who she did the final edits for a year later online as some of the New Weird circles. The alumni of the e-zine that published the author's other work then eventually worked with him, and Arkham House alumni befriended her in recent years.
She's a dark horse in the New Weird as one of the late comers in the approach but she was one of the online pioneers along with the website Writings From The Grave and Fright Library Toronto. In the 2002-2003 era the TOC mate was making waves with a Gothic sermon-like horror story known as Library of Bones. The story was revisited as it referenced the the entity he introduced in this story, the notorious true crime yarn, and a story he wrote that had two from the Poe fandom agreeing to join him in 2007. For many years he was trying to invite her for one of his projects, finally in 2011, in the anthology she was the closing writer in.
Joni's logo design for Twilight Times; the magazine still is in operation to this day. The one of the short stories from the era featured with this is open to those curious.
The inclusion of the short story The Blood Letter in his first anthology from the one contributor was her input as she noted the original story was too lightweight in contrast to the rest incoming to the project. Especially when she noted The Third Rule from her mate from Twilight Times.
She pointed out the anthology had this distinct tone, and that story would been a oddball entry in the bunch so she saw The Black Letter and told him, "This would be a better fit."
One of her fallen mates from the AuthorsDen era ran for office and lost his battle to cancer in 2014. The one who made the confession via LiveJournal what the publisher pulled in 2008 with Examining The Blogopshere when she was caught railroading the roster that's Issue Five.
Her Publisher's Alumni Over The Years
His respective rosters also swapped writers with a number of small press establishments over the years. To name a few Withersin (where he was part of The Birth Issue as his Basic Training name), Another Realm, R.A.G.E. Machine Magazine, Permuted Press, Naked Snake Press (he was a guest designer,) Dark Gothic Resurrected, Black Sheets Books, Dybbuk Press (in 2004-2010 this publisher was a bitter rival, admitted Issue Five kept the peace,) Alien Skin, Sams Dot Publishing, Black Death Books, Cyber-Pulp, Liquid Imagination, The House of Pain, The Murder Hole, and Chimeraworld. Some were picked up for Schlock Webzine and some new comers were caught whiteswashing history and using a site that enabled his materail to be pirated as a "jouranlistic source." A few of his E-zine mates appeared in the second and third incarnations of the project. The lead author from Darkened Horizons: Issue 3 follows him on Quora.com. He himself was noticed for material that toyed with freakier than fiction.
House of Pain E-Zine mate and AuthorsDen.com colleague of Joni -- author Nicholas Tillemans connected with best friend of her publisher. He's featured on two of the Chimeraworld projects and captured the imagination of those in horror fandoms with The Mechanics of Perversion. She got in touch with the notorious author HORNS. Horns and Tillemans knew about each other since 2003 as the creator of John Dark said, "the short story that took direct aim at the said fandom defined a time when the world wide web was raw."
Her one story appeared when The Wrong Side Of The Tracks was introduced and a controversial drawing from the author made waves in chat-rooms during this era. Some of the House of Pain E-Zine mates also appeared on Twilight Times at some point. She and one of her Alma mata from that e-zine saw the think tank process for the maiden anthology her TOC mate compiled months from being introduced.
The reason Reality Check was late because two hurricanes were in the Pensacola area; as some of the roster might touch a nerve with the so called higher learning establishment in the area. He told the publisher, "I need to buy you some time with this one. I have an idea. Two of the guys from this project are going to also join me as a few others from FictionPress, AuthorsDen.com and a few channels I am connected with. I am going to tap some of my brothers from Temple of Dagon for this one." That became his project as it was 330 pages and it was giving detractors an elaborate highway salute.
Well -- some of them tried to railroad him because of his extremely notorious short story those in the slash fan fiction circles saw "dude not funny" as his e-zine mates were passing the popcorn. The detractors who wrote that sort of thing well it's safe to say they wanted to do an angry mob as he pulled "Shut up Hannibal" on the one notorious for this. He coined getting accepted on his 28th Birthday, "Her nightmare come true." He did a creative nonfiction sneak on the site and some responded with intense anger as well.
Some of the connections Joni made have ties to the old guard in the Goth community overseas; as Mick taught the publisher how to run a mag. She helped secure his spot connected with him during the times when he locked horns with some of the luminaries and pulled a Shut Up Hannibal on few of them. The e-zine mates knew not to dismiss the Issue Five roster of this magazine as they came together via MySpace and introduced around the time Joni and him came to Facebook.com as she emerged first.
Her return to New Weird in Print
She caught the attention of Mick Mercer when he introduced the second namesake; as the publisher said, "I am just waiting on you to finish up the submission as you're the final touch. Mick introducing this will be the ultimate tie to the community that you caught the attention of when my true crime yarn was introduced. I had no idea you were around as long as I was."
In 2011 she emerged in the new era with the short story Fish Eye Lens which was an eerie echo to the author's story she edited for Reality Check: An Anthology Of Horror. Her approach to horror is a callback to an era during the period when Shirley Jackson introduced The Lottery. Some noted she held her own with Steven L. Shrewsbury in the 2004 era when he wrote Home of the Brave and discovered by Terry Lloyd Vinson in this period. As the author who she secured his alternate story as the synopsis was for the story that was originally slated to be there.
This publisher was Terry Vinson's primary publisher in this era as Kevin Levi with Shred was also making waves in the time frame but in Reality Check: An Anthology of Horror -- the second to last author when published. Cthulhu Mythos circles were picking up on the buzz because of his ties to the cybercircles in the genre especially when Darkness From The Skies emerged. His own takes on this got the eye of April when he was he first introduced to Temple of Dagon.
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The artwork without the text on what the title author -- Nickolaus Albert Pacione Delivers: More From A Library Of Unknown Horrors. Artwork credit: Susan L. Wickham. This is without the distinct text inspired by the Novembers Doom album, The Knowing (2002, Dark Symphonies.) The project itself can be found on TheBookPatch.com in it's current form.
This fandom sees a lot of abuse from The Gargoyles based fandom because they accuse them of cashing in on fandom. Even in her bio on Fanfiction.net when one approached Joni on the independent circuit she admits she's not in it for the payday. Her college education shows up in her output as she majored in history; as some of her mates from AuthorsDen.com also had toyed with the Vampire subgenre.
Seeing herself appearing in a TOC along with H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, as well as Dystopia Magazine's ringmaster and HORNS really showed her legit traits in the New Weird circles. This fandom's ties to the New Weird is almost historic in some ways.
Will be noted others might see critical backlash but this circle are known to be well versed . This fandom and others are more so with the Gothic Horror subgenre in general as Joni shows this when she did her outings.
During the 2006 era she was pretty silent within the speculative though a few freebies floating around here and there and fanwriting circles. In 2006-2007 the crackfic guilty party took direct aim at the TOC mate later lifting his properties.
This one was then covering for another who lifted his material which was written in this era and published in 2007. She tried to railroad the roster which tapped two from the fandom that her influences lay as a writer.
She emerged to the New Weird years before the one who attempted to railroad her toc mate on the anthology that introduced both of them. The short story Royal Wedding which was a send up to Reality TV trends in the early 2000s.
Her original output is well versed with the Gothic Horror genre as her approach to this fandom gave her some acclaim in the New Weird as well as in High Fantasy circles as she designed the logo for Twilight Times E-zine. She introduced Moriah to AuthorsDen.com then to Fanfiction.net.
Moriah when it was introduced on the earlier website -- some of the regulars on the website received this quite well. As a few will note some of her original output would be geared to a much younger readership. She came to the website after seeing the short story that had a eerie ironic echo to Rod Serling titled The Statue.
The Statue, then a story that was written set in Carol Stream and Chicago set in the era of her fandom time frame. That story was set in Glenbard North and the region has a Freakier than Fiction element that Joni caught onto and ran with it -- the author gave a few ideas to the owner of this wiki to really show the historic ties to the fandom. Seeing her own outings he suggested the idea; because his middle school social studies teacher did that kind of examination. The whole fandom applies to the shared graphic with the bio -- because they do make the New Weird think and give them credit. Her TOC mates, three of them collaborated in real life on films as one of them has a Thunderf00t connection.
Then more frightening entry in the real person fandom set in his old high school revisiting the events of his five year memoir -- set in the wake of a teacher rape scandal.. This was his own expense years later all had similar word counts to this crossover work on Archive Of Our Own. This story is known to have a kinship with Wes Craven's New Nightmare.
AuthorsDen.com Prospective Turned Backlash
One of the prospective contributors as it was in the planning stages didn't like the idea his name was part of the title. The artwork was still being discussed with the artist about the idea. The artist a few years later saw a photo that was close to his look from the period aka the black metal portrait where it had no corpse paint but the effect with the photo was all black scale.
the author who responded with hostility when he told her, "this is my project. I am the title author, the title stays. Accept it or walk."
He told her blatantly, "This is my project, this is for a museum and the sequel for this was in developmental hell since 2008. I caught a rival publisher lifting my titles and accused me of stealing manuscripts so her punishment is being celebrated for material that's not even hers to begin with. She lifted the title of a project which the anthology title came from one of my own stories as I ushered a writer who was from the world of fandom; as this was his debut as an original fiction author - her piss-poor anthology was rushed. Cost $15 for a 75 page 'book' where the author on the first namesake reboot. I rebuked him for being in this. This wasn't meant for him if he didn't know how the project and Ghosts in the Tornado both has ties to this -- this story from the first namesake was really inspired by this roster.. I don't like your attitude and you're carrying yourself worst than E. L. James when they caught her novel being a work of Twilight base material that was a perverse vision. The title I chose stays, either accept it or walk. I invited you because you knew me from the era when I introduced the true crime yarn -- you already know what I could pull off."
Her response was a huge barrage of f-bombs over the response as she worked with a publisher who actively screwed him over; especially when he pointed out she lied about her work being a reprint. Then points out she's in part to blame for his work being lifted.
The E.L James response was sent her into a full sense of hostility as her day job was a hair-dresser as the kind of responses that come with that well he was trying to keep a straight face. She responded like he just gave her a highway salute as a rejection letter. Joni coming on board, he knew she was a class act working with Twilight Times as this was the first time she appeared with writers who had also took part in his flagship projects.
She knew some of the alumni from the beta stage so she knew what she was in for. He was trying to get her to join on for Issue Five as she was in touch with him on MySpace as this being how Issue Five came together. He famously sent Issue Five to E. L. James and to Georgia Purdom in the form that is on TheBookPatch.com as the incarnation of the second namesake also is he did a shoutout to her fan brood in reddit.com.
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Joni's TOC mate recreating her photo from the spine on the project as she's illustrating what Georgia Purdom's research does to those who really are educated in history and social studies. Her distinct costume came via correspondence with Professor Kara Cooney as Joni connected with Damon Derleth on facebook.com. The one that she did was in black as this eventually became the spine photo, the version with this costume is often presented on Disqus.com. Joni blindsided Nick when he was getting her to interact with E. L. James as he pointed out to E. L. that Joni is the rightful claim to being published out of fandom historically. The Nunkies looked like they had a hand with the research. Nunkie Social Studies.
Joni knew out of the box he was the title writer. The others who came to the fold on this said project came from the strength of the story he wrote, "Okay if he could pull off something like this and see an oil painting matching this. I want to see if I can hold my own with this baroque monster; this one is quite Lovecraftian with more than one frightening ironic echo."
He became known for fiercely backing up his Issue Five alumni, and the namesake rosters.
The e-zine alumni became friends with the publisher who published him with his nonfiction. Like the publisher -- they caught up with his friends from when he was 19 as well as the publisher who published him and caught heat.
This one connected with one of his Chicago friends, the heavy metal band Fashion Bomb during the release of their second album.
His Issue 10 roster a few of them remained in touch over the years but a many of them went their separate ways; but the roster of Issue Five would appeal to her because of her history background.
One of the roster of Issue Five has a Pulitzer award to his name and is a professor so those who operate in this fandom -- follow Joni's example.
The crackfic guilty party -- failed to realize what the issue became the embodiment of in recent history as the climate of when it emerged shown an Anti-Pakistani sentiment in both the United Kingdom and stateside back in 2007. When the publisher's story ended up getting plagiarized the subject of the Wheaton College controversy and one of her friends connected with him.
- For an alphabetical list of Forever Knight-related material by this author, please see Category:Works by Joni Latham.
Fan Fiction
The following stories are listed chronologically by the date posted or published.
1996
1997
- "Moriah: The Intrinsic Protector"[3][4] (1 January)
- "Moriah: Coming of Age"[5][6] (20 January)
- "Moriah 3: RedNecked Revenge"[7][8] (2 June)
(no date)
These are all Nunkies Anonymous stories.