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I read and I read and I read, and I still didn't get to half my list.
Numenor, Hobbits, and Romance had a lot of stories on it that I just
didn't manage to read at all; I couldn't even get to "The Hobbit" or
Mystery or Horror, and the list of fics on my Amnesty list was never
touched. Long stories were out of luck most of the time unless I'd
already read them.

:-S

Nevertheless, I did read quite a few new fics for which I am grateful.

Thanks for organizing this, Ainae. Thanks to all the other
foolish--er, generous souls who have been vote-counters and
moderators, and thank you very much to all who commented on any of my
stories. I'm afraid any personal notes of thanks will have to wait
either until Christmas.

Dwim

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "dwimmer_laik" <dwimmer_laik@y...>
wrote:

>
> I read and I read and I read, and I still didn't get to half my

list.

> Numenor, Hobbits, and Romance had a lot of stories on it that I just
> didn't manage to read at all; I couldn't even get to "The Hobbit" or
> Mystery or Horror, and the list of fics on my Amnesty list was never
> touched. Long stories were out of luck most of the time unless I'd
> already read them.
>
> :-S
>

I know that feeling. Just looking over the list of Elves nominees...
well, I now know several stories I will be reading in the near future.
But time is a limited commodity... :-/

> Nevertheless, I did read quite a few new fics for which I am

grateful.

>

What she said. I have discovered many new writers, especially in the
hobbit corner of the fandom - despite my interest in that race, I
hadn't touched the wealth available, and SilverMoonLady and Lindelea
are both on my list to investigate in the future - as are several by
JoDancingTree that I didn't even know she had written.

I'm also very thankful, as an author, for the many people who have
commented. Several people have read and apparently liked my stories,
who I had never talked to before. ThunderaTiger, your name jumps to
mind, and I'm glad we've gotten to know each other a bit better. But
there are many others.

If I haven't thanked you yet and you commented on my things, I will.
Soon. I really do appreciate all the comments.

> Thanks for organizing this, Ainae. Thanks to all the other
> foolish--er, generous souls who have been vote-counters and
> moderators,

Hear, hear! (Hear what?) Ainae, I have several suggestions (it's the
beta reader in me), and will share them when you're ready to do a post
mortem, but I think the awards have been very successful for a first
year. Thank you for all your hard work, and I'm only sorry RL forced
me to cut back on the amount of helping out I could do.

Marta

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "dwimmer_laik" <dwimmer_laik@y...>
wrote:

>
> I read and I read and I read, and I still didn't get to half my

list.

> Numenor, Hobbits, and Romance had a lot of stories on it that I just
> didn't manage to read at all; I couldn't even get to "The Hobbit" or
> Mystery or Horror, and the list of fics on my Amnesty list was never
> touched. Long stories were out of luck most of the time unless I'd
> already read them.

Well, I read and read and read, and according to my spreadsheet had
comments for more than 300 nominations! Wow. Still, I didn't get to
all I wanted, and I had to really scramble during Voting Season. What
have I learned: I need to use Reading Season better! I think I only
read a handful of Elves stories in those 2 1/2 months. I'm glad to
say I did get to a few of the long stories I wanted to, though a few
still sit on my Want-to-Read list. Thankfully, a few of those were
WIPs so I'll hopefully be getting another chance.

> Nevertheless, I did read quite a few new fics for which I am

grateful.

Me, too, and some which I wouldn't have thought I'd enjoy! I am
always surprised by some at Awards time.

> Thanks for organizing this, Ainae. Thanks to all the other
> foolish--er, generous souls who have been vote-counters and
> moderators,

You're welcome, and in Alt.StarTrek.Creative circles we call them the
insufficiently reluctant. I've been insufficiently reluctant for
quite some time as I've served as the DS9 SOS Maintainer (keeps track
of DS9 stories posted each year) for more than 4 years I think, and
I've even been a vote counter once for ASC.

>and thank you very much to all who commented on any of my
> stories. I'm afraid any personal notes of thanks will have to wait
> either until Christmas.

My thanks, too! I have marked each post with comments on my stories
and I intend to save them as I do with all my feedback (I have an
Access database! Yes, I'm a computer geek!) and reply to them
individually. I do appreciate them very much, I've just been so busy
of late, reading and trying very hard to get my comments posted by
midnight...and then preoccupied with counting and voting and watching
the election returns and then.... (e-mail me privately if you want to
know the rest of that. We won't go into politics here.)

I have been very glad with the results (of the big picture here) of
these Awards. We didn't have a huge membership starting out, but
it's the first year. We may have more next year, when good word gets
out. (hint, hint). And we had over 30 commenters, I think. I asked
the ASC-Virtual Staff Offices (We're silly over there. We have our
own offices and floor plans and daily cookies and everything. All
virtually, of course.) and they didn't have actual stats, but felt
that they had a core of voters that vote on just about every category
with a smaller number of other voters that just vote here or there,
so I think percentage-wise of voters to members, we did pretty well.
Though, of course, I hope more will put their votes in next year now
that they've seen how we do it.

On the whole, I am very happy with how these awards came out and
think they have been a success in their first year. Good luck to all
the nominees. We are still getting some of our counts in (three per
category after all) so we haven't nailed down every winner yet, but
we are definitely on schedule to do so by Nov. 15th. And remember
that our counting process is an open one. Anyone can view the
Archive of the MEFAStaff group and see our correspondences. The
three counts per category keep us accurate and protect the integrity
of the vote counting. So have no fears in that regard! And in the
end, you find you didn't receive an award, I hope you can at least
walk away happy with your comments, as almost every story got at
least one comment.

Well done, everyone! And thanks!

--Ainae
MEFA Admin and Founder

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Marta" <MartaL0712@n...> wrote:

> What she said. I have discovered many new writers, especially in

the

> hobbit corner of the fandom - despite my interest in that race, I
> hadn't touched the wealth available, and SilverMoonLady and

Lindelea

> are both on my list to investigate in the future - as are several

by

> JoDancingTree that I didn't even know she had written.

And see, I found a lot of Men and Hobbits stories that were real gems
that I would have missed being mainly and Elf fan.

> Hear, hear! (Hear what?) Ainae, I have several suggestions (it's

the

> beta reader in me), and will share them when you're ready to do a

post

> mortem, but I think the awards have been very successful for a

first

> year.

Thanks! And I welcome those suggestions when the time comes. Just as
long as the "sacred" parts remain (comment-based, etc.). There are
bound to be changes. I've even got a few myself. Faramir is awfully
angsty, isn't he....

Thank you for all your hard work, and I'm only sorry RL forced

> me to cut back on the amount of helping out I could do.

Oh, hey, if anyone knows about RL, I do. I'm still working with the
neurologist to find out why I have aphasic moments after all.
Sometimes you just have to cut back. I'll be the first to tell
anyone that. Don't let stress damage your brain! Cut back before
that happens if you're heading that way.

Anyway, yes, I think it was a success and I'm looking forward to the
results and then finding more stories to nominate next year!

--Ainae

I've been pimping the MEFAs all over. These awards
have given me sufficient nudge to read some really
incredible stuff by writers I don't know and have
never read before.

Thanks, Ainae and Crew.

viv
--- ainaechoiriel <mefaadmin@earthlink.net> wrote:

> We may have more next year,
> when good word gets
> out. (hint, hint).

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