The COA Awards

[jedibuttercup]

If you haven't made your nominations in the 2010 Crossing Over Awards at Twisting the Hellmouth yet, be aware that the process closes sometime tomorrow! (I'm going to have to make mine after I get back from the concert tonight; I keep forgetting.)

So far this year, I've only received nominations in TWO categories; quite a ways down from my high last year of twenty-plus. But then again, they've cut several of my best, such as the Fred/Illyria and Wesley categories (the latter of which I won three years running), and lumped them under "Other". Ah, well. The fortunes of fannish taste come and go. Good luck to everyone else with eligible stories!
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Comments

[polgara-5.livejournal.com]

It may also be that some of your nominations haven't been approved by a moderator yet. I know that all the noms I made haven't been cleared yet. At least, that's according to the site. *shrugs*

[avamclean.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad I've recieved a total of zero but the nominations have to be approved by two moderators this year to make sure there are no slip ups like last year so they're taking longer. :)

[pronker]

I don't really know the site well, but best wishes to you and your stories.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Not many of your stories are eligible this year compared to previous years; the restrictions are so tight that the same thing applies to most people. I bet they don't get a quarter of the nominations that they did last time.

I bet you get at least one more nomination, though, although I couldn't possibly comment on how I know this.

[jedibuttercup]

Probably true, since a peek at the noms today shows a lot of the categories still really thin. If they're really requiring double-mod approval, it's no wonder it's taking awhile. =)

I ended up with five category noms; maybe one of them has a chance of winning, I think. I'll have to make an effort to write more 1K+ stories this year. =)

[jedibuttercup]

Well, I suppose that makes sense. Given how many noms there probably are, total, that's a lot of man-hours of approving.

Here's hoping you've received at least one! =)

[jedibuttercup]

Thank you! Yes, it's mostly a haven for those of us who grew into crossover writing out of Buffy fandom. =)

[jedibuttercup]

*grin* Thanks.

Yeah, I was surprised when I started my own voting about the 1,000 word minimum limit, for one thing; that's definitely new. I spent a lot of last year writing either shorter or non-BtVS-cross stuff, alas.

[graycardinal]

Ah, that explains much.

I got started too late to make more than a very few noms, but one is in a whole category that's yet to be vetted. And one isn't showing up as yet...but that might be either because the mods haven't got round to vetting it, or because its author [nudge, wink] is hedging her bets, and has chosen to hang her hat on the other entirely worthy work of hers that shows as nominated in the same category.

[Being totally not awards-aware myself, I didn't realize till I went spelunking around in the rules that I clearly should have been crossposting my own tthdrabbles efforts over at the main TtH site so as to be eligible foor this sort of thing. Silly me, too late for this round now. Ah, well.]