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Huzzah! I won an award for my fic Harry Potter and the Book of Amun Ra at the Crossover Awards this month. I already knew I had a small circle of fans, and I'm quite aware that most fic awards don't mean all that much any more, but it's still very, very cheering to get this sort of seal of approval.

I was also nominated for an award at the Walk With Heroes site for my story They Also Serve. Voting there ends the day after tomorrow. Now, that one took me off guard; I haven't promoted that story anywhere at all in the last year or more.

If the title of that fic sounds unfamiliar to you, it's because I never posted it here -- TAS is third in a series of novel-length fics that I never quite got to the end of, and the writing is not quite up to my current standards. The first in the series, "Lesser Men", was the very first fan fiction I ever wrote, more than two years ago now. One day, perhaps, I'll go back and rewrite the series and finally tie up the loose ends ... but I wrote something like 200,000 words between the four extant novels (the fourth is WIP) and the interludes sandwiched between them. That's just the tiniest bit intimidating, y'know?

Honestly, while I love the epics, I think my skills are more suited to the shorter types of fic. The longest thing I've written since I abandoned the "Lesser Men" series was The Five Stages of Grief, which clocks in at just under 15,000 words. Hm. Doesn't speak well for my imaginary future career as a novelist. *grin*