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Katie Fleming is a popular and well-known Canadian Tomb Raider fanfiction writer, with a professionally designed website [1] devoted to her fan fiction, various competitions and her library of in-game screenshots.

Stories

• The Evil House [2]
• Revenge of the Aztec Gods [3]
• Lara's Mansion - Death Trap? [4]
• Search for Delphi [5]
• Sweat, Strength, and Determination [6]
• A New World, a New Life [7]
• Run - and Don't Stop [8]
• The Lost City of Tsumeb [9]
• The Strenuous Escapade [10]
• Premonitions [11]
• Perilous Paradise [12]
• A Room in Waiting [13]

Controversy

There was some surprise at the inclusion of Katie as the sole representative for fan fiction in the "Ten Years of Tomb Raider: A GameTap Retrospective" DVD. This sparked a debate across the fanfiction community, sections of which felt that this Eidos-approved documentary had ignored the contributions of the other award-winning authors active in the fandom (something that was largely out of Katie's control). The heavy-handed attempt by various semi-official TR fan sites to prevent fans questioning the choice of Katie as the representative of TR fan fiction blew up into controversy [14], [15],[16].

At the time of writing (Sept 2008) the controversy has largely died away and the TR fandom takes a kindly view of Katie's good fortune. To give Katie the last word, on the GameTap DVD she said: "I started writing stories for me, but if other people enjoy them, well that just makes it a whole lot better."

External Links

• "Katie Fleming Dispatches New Fiction" - a fan-written article about Katie at Tomb Raider Chronicles [17]
• Katie's page about her experiences making the "Ten Years of Tomb Raider: A GameTap Retrospective" film [18]
• Writing Tomb Raider Stories: A Guide Book By Katie Fleming, An all-inclusive guide to crafting your own fiction