Squeee!

 The sshg_exchange  reveals are up!  Woot!  Thank heavens for the reveal because let me tell you, I'm terrible at identifying authors by style and am totally impressed with those of you who can read a story and say, "oh, that sounds just like so and so..."

I want to thank irishredlass69  once again for the fantastic Second Hand Wand.  It was a total coincidence and so fun that it had animagi in the story just like my story did!  Plus, the wandlore was extremely cool.


At long last, I can thank the long suffering team of alpha and beta readers who shepherded my offering for lipasnape , Tree of Life, into being (pdf file for graphics-heavy version found here and for text only, here.)
An ocean of thanks to annietalbot , without whom the story would be a pile of drafts on her floor (or possibly a pile of ash in her hearth). Hugs to juniperus  who sharpened up the journal excerpts (and narrative, too) and to syndicated  who is a magical teacher and generously taught me how to format and upload the image files (which were her idea, too). Thanks to dickgloucester  who first said, "what about using journal excerpts?" and in doing so, opened the door at long last to writing rather than wibbling, to somigliana  who did a last minute beta read for a second pair of eyes, and to ferporcel  who turned the story into pdf format when I heard that some people were having trouble loading the pages because of the image files.  

Thanks to the readers and reviewers for your enthusiasm (which absolutely blew me away) and to the mods for all your support in posting this dragon of a story.  You were a pleasure to work with from beginning to end!

I'm looking forward to catching up on the several stories that I somehow missed along the way -- this was such a rich exchange and such a pleasure!