My name is Johanne Brière. I have never used a pen-name before. The manner in which fanfiction sets things didn't allow me to use Johanne. My initials are JB - therefore GiBay - as the French prononciation of those two letters.

I am a native French speaker, Montréal born. I have used the English language to write fanfics in the last 10 years (first fic online was an Higlander story, coauthored with a good friend and available at the 7th dimension site, published in December 1996).

I learned to speak English in 1978 when I was 20, I used it almost daily at work. I write memos and attended meetings and take I.S. classes in English. Yet I have absolutely no formal training in it.

Why do I used it so much then ? because the characters I care about, in all the fandoms I have joined, used English themselves. I tried once to write an Highlander fic in French. It just didn't work, I have no clues how the characters resonated in it, I can't therefore be just and fair to them.

I am actually writing my third Daniel Boone fanfic. I am awaiting the final editing and proofreading to make the last changes to my second Daniel Boone. Perhaps I will be posting these here in the fall of 2007. I am quite proud of my second and third story, I worked real hard to get everything right, back story, events and plots. It is a challenge which I enjoyed particularly.

Hopefully, there will be a readership for these stories.

Johanne