UPDATE AUG 2: Click here for the first two parts of BB Ruth's interview!
UPDATE AUG 26: Click here for more of her answers!


---- ORIG MESSAGE ON JUN 6 ---
Hi guys,

Please post here questions you'd like us to ask our next interviewee: PK writer BB Ruth! She who "makes her readers go all angsty before giving them an H/H ending", to borrow eowyn83's words. Her fics include “The Keeper”, “Cardinal Curses” and “Purple Potion”.

Post your questions here. The sooner you submit them, the sooner we could release her interview. We'd include questions for as long as they aren't nasty or totally irrelevant. Of course, you may also post queries and comments every time we release portions of our feature on her and our other interviewees.

On a related note, we've just released Part 2 of PK Spotlight issue #1 featuring fan artist Gwendy.


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Here's the Word .doc file. It contains * * * * * instead of ***** or _________. See, if you put long lines without blank spaces in your fanfiction.portkey.org uploads, it would stretch the pages' margins there esp when readers use the "change [to a bigger] font size" option. This problem's true for any webpage actually.

EDITED: uploaded a slightly revised version that spells out the URLs 'cos it seems we could only embed up to three links in fanfiction.portkey.org pages.

Well, what I have to ask BB Ruth is: as a fanfiction author, do you choose a specific characteristic of a character to explore and add it to your story or do you try to keep as fiel as possible to the original plot? I only read The Cardinal Curse and The Purple Potion . I'm waiting The Keeper be completed to read it.

I've always been impressed with the complexity and depth of BBRuth's stories and I was curious as to how much of the storyline does she (I'm assuming BBRuth is a she, apologies if I'm wrong) create before writing and how much is made up along the way?

I have a question for BB Ruth. How would you rewrite books six and seven for the ending that we should have?

To lighten the mood:

- Where'd you get your PK alias BB Ruth?
- How'd you find time to write your stories? Were you plotting it in your mind, got distracted and thus had that incident in your mom's kitchen? The one you alluded to in our Pinoy board?

Click here for the first part of BB Ruth's interview!


We'd like to thank her for being so accomodating and prompt with her replies. Please blame me for delays in releasing her interview.

We've updated BB Ruth's interview here, where she talks about writing emotions, mysteries, her real life and Portkey experience.