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Hey guys,

I'm looking for volunteers to help personalize banners for winners of
awards.

When the results of this year's awards are announced in a few days,
I'll email all of the authors whose stories won an award or an
honorable mention. I'll include a link to a page displaying the
several banners that have been created for this year's winners. The
authors will email me back with which banner they would like to use.

Here is where I need volunteers. Authors can select one banner for
each winning story, and a volunteer will have to add the subcategory
information and the award that was won. For instance, "2nd Place -
Genres: Drama: Vignettes." When an author selects what banner they'd
like, I'll forward their request on to a volunteer. The volunteer will
then customize the banner requested and email the customized banner to
me. I'll then send that banner on to the author.

So basically, I need people willing to edit a graphic. You'd need to
be fairly available the two weeks or so after the awards are announced.

If you're interested, please email me at mefasupport(at)gmail(dot)com.

PS - Don't forget, voting ends at 23:59:59 GMT on December 30. The
current official time is 00:56:32 GMT on December 29. That means you
have just under two days. Make sure you have entered any votes you
want to enter by that time. And if you have any draft reviews you'd
like counted, make sure you have changed them to hidden or final by
that same time.

Marta
(MEFA Admin.)

Had three last-minute reviews to make, and the ISP from Mordor decided
to cut out once more.

Oh, well, at least I read MOST of the stories this year! And it was a
lot of fun.
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large

"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." LOTR

"Don't go where I can't follow."

I mourn for this nation.

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Bonnie L. Sherrell" <blslarner@...>
wrote:

>
> Had three last-minute reviews to make, and the ISP from Mordor
> decided to cut out once more.

Oi! My isp has been sluggish all evening, but didn't delay me that
much. I had some I wanted to do, but I miscalculated the GMT time
difference...

> Oh, well, at least I read MOST of the stories this year! And it was
> a lot of fun.

Yes it was, although this year... what a run on reviewing this
evening. 5012 reviews this year (at least that is what the system is
telling me), wow!

Cookies anyone?

Rhapsody
(ponders on whether there is a t-shirt that says: I survived this
year's MEFA :c) )

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "rhapsody_the_bard"
<rhapsodybard@...> wrote:

>
> --- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Bonnie L. Sherrell" <blslarner@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Had three last-minute reviews to make, and the ISP from Mordor
> > decided to cut out once more.
>
> Oi! My isp has been sluggish all evening, but didn't delay me that
> much. I had some I wanted to do, but I miscalculated the GMT time
> difference...

Ditto and ditto - although I managed to miscalculate by a whole day!
That'll teach me to dive back in at the last minute!

Happy New Year, everyone!

Dwim

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

>
> --- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "rhapsody_the_bard"
> <rhapsodybard@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Bonnie L. Sherrell" <blslarner@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Had three last-minute reviews to make, and the ISP from Mordor
> > > decided to cut out once more.
> >
> > Oi! My isp has been sluggish all evening, but didn't delay me that
> > much. I had some I wanted to do, but I miscalculated the GMT time
> > difference...
>
> Ditto and ditto - although I managed to miscalculate by a whole day!
> That'll teach me to dive back in at the last minute!

Oh yeah! Hear hear! Still every year so far...

> Happy New Year, everyone!

Cheers to that!

Rhapsody

On 12/30/07, dwimmer_laik <dwimmer_laik@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- In
MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "rhapsody_the_bard" > > --- In
MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Bonnie L. Sherrell" <blslarner@> > > >

> > > Had three last-minute reviews to make, and the ISP from Mordor
> > > decided to cut out once more.

*Wheee!* from here as well. ...trying to squeeze in a few more and
the timer shut me down. I didn't make my goal, but I got more done
than I thought I would.

Sulriel

I made my goal--barely, and just a few over. But really, there were so many
stories I'd hoped to review that I never got time for.

Dreamflower

On Dec 30, 2007 7:53 PM, Súlriel of Menegroth <sulriel@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/30/07, dwimmer_laik <dwimmer_laik@yahoo.com<dwimmer_laik%40yahoo.com>>
> wrote: > --- In
> MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com <MEFAwards%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "rhapsody_the_bard" > > --- In
> MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com <MEFAwards%40yahoogroups.com>, "Bonnie L.
> Sherrell" <blslarner@> > > >
> > > > Had three last-minute reviews to make, and the ISP from Mordor
> > > > decided to cut out once more.
>
> *Wheee!* from here as well. ...trying to squeeze in a few more and
> the timer shut me down. I didn't make my goal, but I got more done
> than I thought I would.
>
> Sulriel
>
>
>


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Alas! Even though I set my goal very low for reviewing, I could not do
it in the end -- not without cheating the people I wanted to review.
In the end, I decided not to push to reach my goal, because they would
have been poor reviews, just for the purpose of finishing.

My new goal will be to read all the marvelous tales I marked to review
during the coming year because just because I couldn't manage to review
them, doesn't mean I'm not going to read them. Such a wealth of
reading there is collected here!

And next year, I will start reviewing earlier, now that I know how it
all works. ;-)

Linaewen

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Bonnie L. Sherrell" <blslarner@...>
wrote:

>
> Had three last-minute reviews to make, and the ISP from Mordor decided
> to cut out once more.
>
> Oh, well, at least I read MOST of the stories this year! And it was a
> lot of fun.
> Bonnie L. Sherrell
> Teacher at Large
>
> "Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even

the very wise cannot see all ends." LOTR

>
> "Don't go where I can't follow."
>
> I mourn for this nation.
>

I have to laugh because I set myself a pretty high goal and was able to
attain it - BUT - I wanted to read so much more.... so I'm going to take
Lin's suggestion and plan on continuing reading here until I've just about
gorged myself on Tolkienesque stuff!

This was a wild ride towards the end.... but much fun! Thanks to all the
volunteers who put this together in the begining and those you have
continued the tradition. Great fun.

*crosses her fingers waiting for the end results*

Blessings and Happy New Year!
Agape

On 12/31/07, linaewen0 <marggrenawalt@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Alas! Even though I set my goal very low for reviewing, I could not do
> it in the end -- not without cheating the people I wanted to review.
> In the end, I decided not to push to reach my goal, because they would
> have been poor reviews, just for the purpose of finishing.
>
> My new goal will be to read all the marvelous tales I marked to review
> during the coming year because just because I couldn't manage to review
> them, doesn't mean I'm not going to read them. Such a wealth of
> reading there is collected here!
>
> And next year, I will start reviewing earlier, now that I know how it
> all works. ;-)
>
> Linaewen
>
> --- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com <MEFAwards%40yahoogroups.com>, "Bonnie L.
> Sherrell" <blslarner@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Had three last-minute reviews to make, and the ISP from Mordor decided
> > to cut out once more.
> >
> > Oh, well, at least I read MOST of the stories this year! And it was a
> > lot of fun.
> > Bonnie L. Sherrell
> > Teacher at Large
> >
> > "Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even
> the very wise cannot see all ends." LOTR
> >
> > "Don't go where I can't follow."
> >
> > I mourn for this nation.
> >
>
>
>


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Hey guys,

I wanted to let you all know that, while I'm not replying to all of the
posts made here, I am reading them all. It seems like there were a
handful of mix-ups on when exactly the awards ended and of course there
were a few technical issues that popped up (not with the site but with
peoples' ISPs).

I'm pleased that they didn't seem to happen to too many people. If
there's anything I as an admin can do to make things run smoother for
next year, please let me know. I do think it's inevitable that some of
these problems will always occur. Murphy's Law and all that, plus the
sheer number of people participating in different corners of the globe.

On reviewing goals: I was really, REALLY pleased with reviewing this
year. There are a lot more people reviewing than I remember their being
in previous years, and we had a fair number last year. And the number of
reviews written was incredible! Ann is going to be very busy posting
them all to this Yahoo group over the next few days.

If you didn't reach your goal, don't feel bad. You wrote as many reviews
as you reasonably could, and every review written is a gift to an
author. Plus, since the reviews you wrote will help decide who wins,
that means the results are better because they reflect what more people
think. It's always better to review a few than to review none. And if
you wish you had been able to review more, hopefully you'll know how to
do that better next year.

(*psst*: I had stories I didn't get to read, too. It happens every year
and I've been doing it since 2004. It happens to most people I talk to.)

If you want to keep reading stories that were nominated for this year's
awards, there's nothing stopping you. You can't enter reviews through
our website, but most of the websites where the stories are posted
should give you a way to leave feedback. Or it's never too early to
start thinking about next year. You have twenty nominations you'll be
able to use to nominate stories, either your own or anyone else's who
you think might be willing to compete. Why not pop over to your favorite
archive and see what stories have been posted in the past few months
that you maybe missed in the madness of MEFA reviewing?

See, the MEFAs never end, really.... :-)

Marta

PS - If there's something specific you want me to comment on, please
give me a nudge in that direction. And feel free to keep chatting.