Beth and I have spent the last few weeks creating an alternate-universe Teen Wolf, where the characters spend their days managing destination wineries in northern California. We’re releasing 11 collated fanfics in a handsome PDF over at Acuary Lit, as part of our Limiteds editions. Because I’m editing this post in an outdated version of Internet Explorer, I can’t insert a link without physically cutting and pasting the web address, so here:
http://www.actuarylit.com/limiteds/
Click on the wolf!
Inside Wolf Valley Wine Country, vol. 1, you’ll find:
- Sheriff Stilinski and Melissa McCall hiding out in a grotty motel to enjoy a competitor’s ice wine
- Victoria Argent using her husband to seduce Isaac Lahey, international master sommelier
- Stiles’s third grade Valentine to Lydia
- Allison and Scott dancing together at a wedding reception
- Derek Hale awkwardly trying to fit in at a bonfire
- And so much more
This isn’t mentioned in any of our extensive press, or in the little chapbook itself, but Beth and I have very little in the way of studying viticulture. I’ve spent the last seven years buying red wine below eight bucks—well, mostly below six—or, five—so writing about the Napa region in California presented us with many opportunities to consult Wikipedia (which passed on by). I made up sundry lore; Beth, who has grown up closer to Michigan wineries, has a much surer hand regards terminology (steel reserves vs. oak?—I had no idea). She also kept her posts PG to PG-13, whereas I wanted everyone to strip.
Interestingly, our fanfic does not contain elements of the supernatural. We were more engaged with elevating everyone out of Recession-slammed Beacon Hills, transforming the McCalls and Stilinskis into barons, basically.
Oh my word.