Forsaken Fandom Awards (Round 2) Posted

[brightknightie]

The final forsaken_fandom Awards (Round 2) went up today!  The official List of Winners and Runners-Up is as good as a list of recommendations by consensus, as is the original List of Nominees.  Congratulations to all the Forever Knight winners and nominees!  Thank you so much for writing and sharing.  And congratulations to all the nominators, readers, voters, judges and the project moderators!  No story is complete until it is read.

For brevity, here is a very condensed -- teaser! -- list of winners in selected categories only.  (Please check out the full list.)  By the by, if you're looking to compliment a nominated FK author on her story but she doesn't have an LJ and you don't have her email address, contact me privately; in most cases here, I can share it.

Short Story	The Art Of Deception	pj1228
Long Story	Starwort	brightknightie
Series	FK4	greerwatson
Angst	Full Circle	Amanda B.
Dark	Anno Horribilis, Anno Mirabilis	Nancy K.
Ensemble	Could They Choose Between	havocthecat
Fluff	Faire Things	Elena G.
Friendship	Carpe Noctem	hearts_blood
Holiday	Valentine Ghosts	Ell H.
Missing Scene	Damages	tolakasa

Under "own horn, tooting of," as wiliqueen posted earlier today, y'all were very, very generous to my stories, and recognized "Starwort" (winner, long story), "Steamer Trunk Space" (winner, past; runner-up, missing scene), "A Delicate Balance" (winner, best characterization), and "Last Minutes" (winner, original plot).  Thank you so much!  I am honored.

For those seeking fresh, exciting, new flavors, the winning and runner-up stories that have never yet appeared on fkfic-l include: greerwatson's, dknightshade's, ithildyn's, havocthecat's and tv_elf's.  (If anyone wants any advice I can offer on posting to the list, please just speak up!  I'd be happy to see your story there, and many others would, too.)

Again, thank you, all.

Comments

[abby82.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for posting this list and congrats on your all selections.

This was really a lot of fun. There were so many fics that I'd always meant to read but never got around to and a lot of them were in the running. Getting them read was a nice incentive for making an informed decision.

[brightknightie.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your recognition for "Cutthroat Business," as well! (I feel I should apologize for "Steamer Trunk Space" edging it out, as "Trunk Space" was also in another category.)

I'm so glad that so many excellent stories got to be read by people who may have missed them before! That's more important than the final voting results. I hope some authors feel encouraged to write more. I wish only that the event had been designed to funnel more feedback toward authors. (But then again, perhaps it was, in fandoms that are primarily LJ-based, where comments go easily on the ends of stories, come to think of it. It is only because FK is so little LJ-based that it seems difficult to share comments from here. Ah! I get it now.)