Oh, that's interesting! I didn't know that about McCaffrey. Pity I threw out that half-finished Talmor/OC story I started writing when I was eleven...

And true, if I have any claim to having been a BNF, it would be in HP fandom. But even then I think it was just in the sub-set of Snape fandom. Mercifully well prior to the point where certain fans started claiming to have married him on the astral plane. :)

And if you're dating yourself I'm dating myself a whole lot more! I was 31 when I wrote D&L, after all.