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Many congrats to the winners from my flist: knittingknots, doggieearlover, selinamac, piratequeen0405, psyco_chick32, pos_sess_ed, kmoaton, & flametwirler!!

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Voting for the 4th Quarter 2008 awards began yesterday (Feb 15) and lasts through the end of the month. If you're a member, make sure you cast your ballot!!

I want to extend special thanks to landofthekwt, kmoaton, minerva_one and ktshabatie for nominating/seconding my fics this quarter:



Good luck to my fellow nominees, and don't forget to vote!
Please for the love of all that's good, go vote - don't make that wankfest during the last downtime have been in vain!

Heh, this quarter/term of awards nominations is pretty crazy, especially if you are aligned with pairing-centric sites as well as the iy_fanguild and fa_awards. The Feudal Association term just finished, but it's already time to nominate/second again at the IYFG, Eternal Destiny, and Dokuga. Would it be too much to ask for some variation in the calendar, LOL?

I've been doing my part, though - here's the list of my nominations thus far:

( Eternal Destiny: January 2009 term )


( Dokuga: 1st Quarter 2009 )


( IYFG: 4th Quarter 2008 )


I've also been lucky enough to be on the receiving end of the nominations this term :) Thanks so much to everyone who's given my stuff a bit of consideration! :)

Eternal Destiny
Best Love Story: Memento Mori & Perfect Kiss
Best Fairy Tale: Memento Mori

IYFG (still to be seconded)
Best Romance - Inuyasha/Kagome: Memento Mori
Best Short Short: Forbidden Desire

I'm still amazed at how well Memento Mori has been received - it's so much the little drabble that could, LOL :) I'm really excited to see the nod for Forbidden Desire ~ it's a true drabble (100 words), it was originally penned for a contest prompt, and it's more sensual than my general fare. My collection of contest entries is by far my largest output of work, so for any of it to receive a fandom-wide nod is really, really exciting for me :D (Perfect Kiss was also originally written for a contest.) I approach writing for contests completely differently than writing an 'original' story - in the former, its the challenge of writing for a prompt within certain (sometimes strict) restrictions, whereas in the latter its more a struggle to contain my muses and keep the piece internally consistent in plot and characterization.