Dannell Lites

Dannell Lites was a prolific fan fiction writer in many (at least 30, according to AO3!Dannell Lites Archive - Fandoms - AO3) fandoms, and friend to many online. She had over 300 stories online in a number of different archives and specialised in the characters that "haven't been written to death"Autobiography", The Fan-Fiction of Dannell Lites ". Her online persona was a Good Ol' Southern Gal and Southern Belle, down to the Rogue-like accent she wrote in when communicating with friends. Her fandom life dates back to the 1980s, where her name appears on the list of Nolacon members in 1988. 
She collaborated with Kerithwyn Jade on the Sea and Sky series and with DarkMark on the Superman story "The Great Confrontation". She also wrote 2 fics for The Dracoverse "Draco Draconis" & "Heavenly Babysitter". Over a hundred of her stories can be found on the AO3 page set up by her friends from the Offpanel website care of the Open Doors project; others can be found on her own account at Fanfiction.net, the Fan Fiction Archive via the Internet Archive, and the site a cousin of hers set up after learning of her death, and of her online life.
Dannell passed away on September 16, 2002."DM, Rivka Jacobs on the Magneto List found out this info", comment by Alara Rogers to DarkMark's LJ, Oct 23, 2002 In the words of her friend and co-writer, DarkMark:
And from Alara Rogers:
But the last word should come from kerithwyn:
== Awards ==
CBFFA
* 2002 - Best DC/Vertigo: "A Day No Pigs Would Die"
Prosh Awards
* 1999 - Best Author Overall
Damn Fine Awards
* 2000 - DFA Best Batman 2000; Best Drama 2000; Best One-Shot 2000: "Letting Go"
[Following her death, the DFAs instituted the Dannell Lites Memorial Award as a category, starting in 2002]
X-Day
* 1999 - Fanfiction - 4th Place: Fathers of the Atom
Golden Orgasms
* 1999 - Best Story - Other Fandoms - "Garden of Earthly Delights"
==Notable Works==
* Sea and Sky I: A Sea Change - the first in the Sea and Sky series
* A Day No Pigs Would Die
* Hello Mister Claremont - filk
* So You Wanna Read About... The Titans, Teen and Otherwise - a review of Titans fanfic
* The Legion of Squabbling Heroes - a Subreality story before there was a Subreality.
== Archives/Zines/Collections ==
=== Zines ===
==== As Contributor ====
* Wide Open Spaces (multimedia zine) - "Eulogy" - Issue 6, published 1981 (Frisco Kid)
* Empire Star - "A Corellian's No Fun When..." and "The Great Romance, filk to the tune of "Tom Dooley,"" - Issue #4, published April 1981 (Star Wars)
* Facets (Harrison Ford zine) - "Happily Ever After" - Issue #7/8 published in November 1981 (Star Wars, Han/Leia)
=== Archives ===
==== As Archivist ====
* !Batman! - Dannell's personal Batman and DC Comics archive
* !Magneto! - Dannell's personal Magneto and Marvel Comics archive
* The Legion of Super-Heroes FanFic Archive - jointly run with Kerithwyn Jade
==== As Contributor ====
* The itty bitty cyke and logan archive
* The Itty Bitty Archives ‎
* Offpanel.net - hosted an In Memoriam archive of Dannell's fic
* The Tempest Fic Index
* Batman Slash
* Batslash Archive ‎ 
* Subreality Central
* The Dracoverse
* Alara's Spiffy Magneto Page
* Wake Up Gay!
== Further Reading ==
* Darkover Newsletter Issue 19/20 - Dannell was almost selected for the DAW Books anthology Keeper's Price, except MZB was unable to find her address on the manuscript.
* Fanzing #52 - Farewell to Dannell
* Dannell Lites Memorial - Find a Grave website.
* It's Fun to Be in the JL-A - Irene Vartanoff (the story of Dave and Paty Cockrum's JLA filk, to which Dannell contrinbuted)
* The Fan-Fiction of Dannell Lites - "Family Found" by René Dulaney 
* Ms. Dannell Lites by DarthYoshi
* In Memory of Dannell Lites by rhiannonsaille
==References==
Category:Deceased
Category:Fanwriters
Category:2002 Deaths
Category:Filkers