Stargate Fan Awards update, and thanks

[fignewton]

So the Stargate Fan Awards have moved into the next phase: informing nominees so they can place their stories in the appropriate categories. They've given a two week period for this. Hopefully, the Awards will go live on April 1st with all the nominations and move into the voting phase soon after that.

And, well... ::scuffs toe:: I wish to thank the lovely people who have chosen to express their enjoyment of my fics by nominating five stories: SG-1, Ninja Style, In Search of Possibilities, All This Time, Team's Day Out, and Famed in Song and Story.

And in even more exciting news, redial_the_gate has also been nominated! I've said over and over again that Redial represents fandom at its shining best. Keep redialing the Gate, guys! (And hey, the recap of 2010 goes up today!)

A couple of questions for my knowledgeable flisters:

First, I archive my stories in three different places: here on my LJ, at Heliopolis, and at Stargatefan. It's interesting to see where people read my fic, based on which links were given for the nominated stories! :) But since I have the option to change the story links, here's my question: where do you prefer to read stories? On LJ? At an archive? The question becomes more complicated for longer stories that don't fit in a single LJ post. All This Time, for example, is posted as two entries here on LJ because I couldn't fit it into a single post, but it's on only one page at the archive sites. But In Search of Possibilities is divided in chapters, so you'd have to click to multiple pages in either case. So which links should I use? All on LJ? All at an archive? A combination of the two?

I also need a little help in categorizing All This Time. Nominees are asked to categorize their stories according to fandom (SG-1 or SGA), then genre (gen or otherwise), then character/team, then story type (ep related, humor, drama, whatever). Now, some of these are easy (Famed in Song and Story, I'm looking at you), but All This Time is very difficult to put in place.

I see ATT as a Sam character story: her first mission as SG-1 leader, and how she copes with crisis. If I had to give a line from the fic as a summary, it would be this: She didn't know if she would ever command SG-1 as well as Jack O'Neill, but she promised herself that she could come close - and maybe, if she worked hard enough, she could keep Daniel's deaths down to an absolute minimum along the way.

On the other hand, it's also a team fic. And, to be frank, I strongly suspect the story's popularity on Stargatefan is due to the copious Daniel-whumping. :D

So if you had to categorize All This Time, where would you put it? As a Sam fic? As a team fic? Even as a Daniel fic? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

[carlinjona.livejournal.com]

I'm in the same boat, and I quite agree with you here. I was really pleased to get a nom for my fic, then had the rug pulled out from under me - disqualified because I've written one of the Stargate books. I was hoping my fic would find a few new readers. I always crawl through the nom lists and find heaps of stories not previously read. A page for the disqualified ones would be great.

Congrats on the nominations to you both!

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

You did!?

::is smug at talented flist::

Judging from your online work, I'm taking a wild guess that you wrote BoH...?

I wonder if the rule could be revised next year to adding asterisks next to "pro" writers' noms, with the explanation that "this fanfic author has also been published professionally." That will give people the choice of whether or not to vote for a "pro," while at the same time, giving those stories the attention they deserve.

But congrats on the nom, either way. :)

[carlinjona.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :-) Yep, BoH is my baby.

That's not a bad idea. I might mention it, along with a couple of others, to the organisers.