Ooh, yay recs! I'm pretty sure I've never read either of those, although I've read some other stuff by missmurchison. I look forward to reading them.

As to the other: Nah. I already thought mpreg had a lot of potential in concept, but I hated so much of it in execution that it was probably just a matter of time before I wrote my own. Although, I had no idea I was writing a novel when I started...