Multi-Faceted winners are up
Aug. 3rd, 2005 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valis2Congratulations to all the winners! *applauds*
On a side note, I told you I wouldn't win, and I was right. And no, this isn't the "sulky" valis coming out, it's the realistic! The winners are all "classics"/tremendously popular/great fics. TLS just does not have that kind of readership at the moment. I haven't really done enough publicity, and it's lingering on a bit too long. Plus there are some unique problems for most average readers of SS/OFC, I think, namely a bit too much on the violence scale, and an OFC who isn't, well, likeable, in some ways. I am still astonished that it was nominated, and really happy that it was involved in the competition at all. w00t for me!
On a side note, I told you I wouldn't win, and I was right. And no, this isn't the "sulky" valis coming out, it's the realistic! The winners are all "classics"/tremendously popular/great fics. TLS just does not have that kind of readership at the moment. I haven't really done enough publicity, and it's lingering on a bit too long. Plus there are some unique problems for most average readers of SS/OFC, I think, namely a bit too much on the violence scale, and an OFC who isn't, well, likeable, in some ways. I am still astonished that it was nominated, and really happy that it was involved in the competition at all. w00t for me!
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Date: 2005-08-03 05:10 pm (UTC)and better than some.And I think the nomination is the honour, too. It means someone (or a few someones) liked your fic enough to take the trouble. That's no bad thing.
I've heard, but not seen, that there have been cases of authors really putting the screws on at their "yahoo groups" or wherever, even a rumour of someone giving out some angst fest story of an angsty boyfriend break up (I think this is true, because I believe who told me, though I did not see it for themselves).
In equal fairness, I did not see anyone on this list of winners who I thought would do that, from what I know of them.
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Date: 2005-08-03 05:45 pm (UTC)Exactly. And I'm happy that it happened!
This whole experience just reminds me that I need to put a little more effort in, that's all. I need to get the Giant Revision Project finished (including a Britpicking), and write the rest. Then I'll start on the last wave of "PR". Honestly, I never remember to put updates on the few Yahoo groups I belong to, and I always forget to mention it on appropriate LJ comms...I'm just a mess at blowing my own horn, honestly. But for the sake of the story I think I'm going to try to really get it going, once I've made it the best I can possibly can.