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Dayanara Ryelle is a fan fiction writer who joined FanFiction.net under the name Valentina de Lourdes in 2002, before switching to her real name in 2003. While she rarely writes fan fiction, more of Ms. Ryelle's work can be found under the name Are You Dead Yet? (created in 2004), which changed to Jamie's FanGirl during the fall of 2009.

Contents 1 General biography 2 Timeline 2.1 2002 2.2 2003 2.3 2004 2.4 2005 2.5 Off Period 2.6 2009 2.7 2010 3 Fandoms 4 Fanworks 5 Awards

[edit] General biography

Dayanara says, "What's the point in writing an autobiography when my life is always changing? I read and I write. Those are the only two constants."

[edit] Timeline

Below is a timeline of Ms. Ryelle's involvement in fandom:

[edit] 2002

• March 23: Dayanara Ryelle FanFiction.net under the name Valentina de Lourdes. [1]
• May 15: She published Let Forever Be, a piece described as a combination of The Craft and End of Days.
• May 16: The final edit of Let Forever Be was completed. The fan fiction piece remains unfinished, but there is a treatment that proposes the story's resurrection as a novel.
• April 8: She published Dark Passion, a Harry Potter piece.
• April 15: The final edit of Dark Passion was completed. This piece will remain forever incomplete, as Dayanara no longer pursues Harry Potter fan fiction.

[edit] 2003

• March 28: Dayanara opened a new account with her given name as a pen name.[2] She also published Broken Dawn, a Harry Potter piece on this date.
• March 29: She published Rainy Days are Here to Stay, a Phantom of the Opera piece.
• March 31: The final edit of Rainy Days are Here to Stay was completed. Dayanara has no plans to finish this piece at this time.
• April 1: The final edit of Broken Dawn was completed. This piece will remain forever incomplete, as Dayanara no longer pursues Harry Potter fan fiction.
• October 18: She published Just an Illusion, a piece that interweaves tales from the Spider-Man movies. There have been no edits of the fan fiction piece after that time, but the concept was resurrected in 2007 as a novel entitled Meet Ophelia. (The manuscript is in its second draft.)

[edit] 2004

• June 24: Dayanara finally came up with a username and password she could remember--Are You Dead Yet?
• It is possible that Ms. Ryelle published fan fiction during this time, but chose to delete it before finishing.

[edit] 2005

• October 7: She published Haunted House, a House piece.
• October 15: The final edit of Haunted House was completed. Dayanara eventually intends to revised this, but as of this writing, she is buried under numerous projects.
• October 23: She published Blood Price, another House piece. There will be no continuation of this piece, as it was a Oneshot.

[edit] Off Period

Dayanara wrote fan fiction during this period, but frequently became discouraged and deleted the stories after a few chapters.

[edit] 2009

• January 27: Work begins on Let Go Your Heart, Let Go Your Head, a Jericho piece.
• March 1: After many drafts and the enlistment of a sounding board, Dayanara publishes the first chapter of Let Go Your Heart, Let Go Your Head under the new title For the Fallen Dreams.
• July 8: Cornered, a Criminal Minds story, made its debut as First of May.
• August 25: For the Fallen Dreams is published on Fanfiction.net.

[edit] 2010

• January 26: Cornered is completed.
• January 27: Begins drafting Goedenacht Maan, a Oneshot semi-sequel to Cornered. (Goedenacht Maan is Dutch for "Goodnight Moon")
• January 29: Cornered is now archived on deviantART. [3]
• January 30: Dayanara finishes Goedenacht Maan--it will be archived on both dA and FF.net.
• February 23: For the Fallen Dreams is completed.
• February 24: Unable to decide what to work on next, Dayanara goes on hiatus. See ya later, Daya! :)

[edit] Fandoms

• Criminal Minds
• Jericho
• House
• Phantom of the Opera

[edit] Fanworks

• Blood Price [4] (as Are You Dead Yet?)--House confronts a suicide after losing a bet with Wilson.
• Broken Dawn [5] (as Dayanara Ryelle)--While the men are out, the ladies take over. Rebecca Snape tries to fit into her father's shoes while dealing with her hidden past and a new professor.
• Cornered [6] (as Jamie's FanGirl)--Hotch argues post-traumatic stress disorder, Prentiss says the story could theoretically be true. But what will the BAU do when the unsub sets her sights on them, instead? (One year after Demonology | AU | shameless Tom Benton whumping).
• Dark Passion [7] (as Valentina de Lourdes)--Can Snape escape the steely grasp of true love?
• For the Fallen Dreams [8] (as Jamie's FanGirl)--Jericho's assistant administrator finds herself burdened with pirates, melees and a kidnapping. And that's just for starters!
• Goedenacht Maan [9] (as Jamie's FanGirl)--Ananke is forced to answer, "Who was Frank Breitkopf?"
• Haunted House [10] (as Are You Dead Yet?)--The cast does Phantom of the Opera. (Why? Because we weird writers love it, that's why!)
• Just an Illusion [11] (as Dayanara Ryelle)--Ophelia, Norman's oldest child, comes home from Ireland to confront her brother and her father's ghost.
• Let Forever Be [12] (as Valentina de Lourdes)--This is actually a combination of End of Days and the Craft. Almost like sequels to both. Rated R for swearing and heavy content.
• Rainy Days are Here to Stay [13] (as Dayanara Ryelle)--Madame Giry's intern seems to be destined to become the next Christine. But will Mssrs. Firmin and Andre blow her success by finally getting Erik out of the opera house?

[edit] Awards

• The "MORE, DAMMIT!" Lifetime Achievement Award (2005)