Unconventional Courtship

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It's unconventionalcourtship time again!



I asked what I'd forgotten last post and liadt quite rightly said, unconventionalcourtship! And I thought, great, that's two things for the next post! (Who knows what the other thing was? Not me.)

Anyway, it's a laid back old school writing fest where you pick a romance novel summary, choose characters/OT-whatever to inflict it onto, sign up to post on a chosen day and that's it, really. Whether the resulting fic is at all romantic or not is up to you.

Check out the comm for more details, selections of banners to use to promote it (and indeed, the template to make your own). They have lists of summaries if you don't want to go hunting for them in the wild.

There's even the Unconventional Courtship Generator so you can choose one by randomness and hilarity: http://www.seasip.info/Misc/ucrpg.html

(You can customise it and put your own characters in, as well as the preset ones.)

I mean, what more can you ask of a fest?

ETA:

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412) Italian Tycoon, Secret Son - Lucy Gordon
Stranded after an avalanche, the Eleventh Doctor and Snow White awaited rescue and found comfort in each other’s arms. A year on, Eleven goes to her – for she has his heart and he has her son! But Snow White has lost her memory. Will she claim her English groom and son?


(This is cracking me up, just because it sounds pretty plausible as per canon for both and we can assume the has his heart bit is totally literal.)


325) For His Eyes Only - Liz Fielding
'It's your body that I want to draw, not your clothes.'
Well, that's what he was afraid of! Hardworking estate agent the Second Doctor finds his reputation in tatters when an ad he created gets bungled. He'll do anything to restore his good name—even beg seriously sexy artist Cally to give him another chance to sell her ancestral home. Only, she drives a hard bargain: Two must pose naked, for her eyes only…!
She's asking Two to take her on trust. But he's learned the hard way not to trust women—particularly those he's working with…and let alone women he's taking his clothes off for!
Cally's next outrageous statement? 'I will, too—if it will make it easier for you.…



319) Undercover Lovers by Julie Kenner
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO GET INTO BED WITH THE ENEMY…
That's exactly what FBI agent the Sixth Doctor is afraid of. Especially after he learns that his first undercover assignment will involve going into a sex resort, posing as the husband of his longtime nemesis — and nightly fantasy — gorgeous Graham O'Brien. Which wouldn't be so bad, except that, years ago, he'd almost made it into Graham's bed. And he's afraid that once he gets there, he won't be able to leave…
After years of undercover work, all Graham O'Brien wants is a little peace. But when his final assignment pairs him with Six, he decides to go for one last fling, too! The sexy brunet has had him tied up in knots since they were both cadets. And now, given their new 'marital' status, Graham can enjoy his 'husbandly' rights until Six's out of his system, once and for all. Little does he guess that this 'marriage' was meant to last.…


589) The Black Wolf by Linda Thomas-Sundstrom
Raised in seclusion, Charlotte Pollard knows that she will never find the man who haunts her dreams until she ventures out into the world. But it’s Were-cop Harry Sullivan’s job to protect this shape-shifter from her own naïveté. Yet he needs her as much as she needs him – to help his pack rid Miami of a vampire horde, and to satisfy a desire he’s never felt before.

(I mean. This does sound like a weird and possibly weirdly cute mash-up of EU sources.)


29)EXECUTIVE BODYGUARD by DEBRA WEBB
Silhouette Intrigue
The stranger with his husband’s face...
Ryan Sinclair, the first man elected president, knew his term wouldn’t be easy. Then, months into his office, his husband tragically died in a plane crash - and he began receiving bone-chilling phone calls... Now, suddenly, Sodoff Baldrick has returned. And when the threats on his life began, like an executive bodyguard, Baldrick performed feats of superhuman skill to protect him. And as the danger escalated around them, it seemed less daunting than facing the feelings provoked by the tender touch of the stranger with his husband's face...


228) Sleeping with the Soldier by Charlotte Phillips
A sleepless night too many!
All Leela knows about the hot-as-sin guy who lives above her is that his nocturnal activities are keeping her awake. A lot. Fed up—and not at all jealous!—she decides to confront the man head-on. Big mistake! Because, face-to-face, Leela sees just why so many women fall into Wesley Wyndam-Price's bed!
Nights have been sheer torture for ex-soldier Wesley ever since he returned from active duty, but he's not about to share that with Leela. But when she becomes his unexpected flatmate, temptation personified is sleeping in the room next door, and keeping his distance is going to be difficult. Impossible. In fact…it's the perfect opportunity to show her just why sleep is so overrated…


(No, no, really, it's probably just that he keeps people LOCKED IN HIS CUPBOARD sometimes.)


586) Royal Enchantment by Sharon Ashwood
She married the king. She wanted the man.
Servalan's marriage to the Eleventh Doctor was a political partnership, never a romance. Susan Foreman knows that the king's court, newly restored at a medieval theme park, will only be complete if he has his lady. Little did anyone suspect that once Servalan gets a taste of twenty-first-century freedoms that this ancient queen would lose interest in belonging to any man – even a royal one.
It takes a dragon and passionate nights spent in each other's arms to lure her back to her husband's side. Eleven is willing to accept Servalan's help in protecting the new Camelot from a fae menace, but the bigger challenge will be wooing back Servalan for a second chance at love…


(Well. That was a plan that was never going to go right.)