NOTICE: I am dead serious about the extensions. If you do not already have a concrete deadline extension date, contact me immediately.

Above all, let me say yet again that you need to keep in touch. Even if it's just a short, two-sentence message to let me know that your story is done and you're still looking for a beta reader, it will really ( Read more... )

A few things that I wanted to get out there (in no particular order):

• Since there were just a handful of people who ended up fully participating in the Odds 'n' Ends round, there won't be an awards session. I will, however, still be making some kind of special graphic for all of the participants to display. Thanks for your hard work, guys!
• When ( Read more... )

Beta readers for the Love in Full Bloom Exchange, please copy-and-paste and complete the following form into a comment response to this post:

Author of beta-read fic:
I confirm that I have read/edited this author's fic, and that it is free of major grammatical and other errors:

I don't really expect to have much (if any) trouble with this during the current exchange, but I thought I'd go ahead and make the following announcement so that you'll all be aware of the fact ( Read more... )

Phew! I finally finished tallying the votes and making the award banners, so here they are!

Each one doubles as a link to the winning story (with the exceptions of the participant graphic, which links to the masterlist, and, of course, the reviewer award), so feel free to click on any of the banners to check out its corresponding fic.

( CONGRATS! )

Since we're at the mid-week point, I thought I'd post quickly to give several brief reminders and updates:

1. As of today, there's just over a month left until fic submissions for the Love in Full Bloom exchange are due! Be sure that you don't let that deadline creep up on you. *winks ( Read more... )

Oh, dear. Come on, guys ( Read more... )

Finally, the long-overdue award nominations for the 2007 Valentine's Day exchange can begin!

If you missed the master list of author reveals (complete with links to all of the stories), you can find it HEREThis time around will be slightly different, as we had a smaller number of participants for this particular exchange-- if we used the same ( Read more... )

NOTE: All assignments have been sent. If you are a participant in the Love in Full Bloom exchange, please check your email inbox for your prompt. Let me know immediately if you haven't received it ( Read more... )

There's a mention of this in the community profiles already, but I thought that I would make a separate post about this for the sake of all the new participants we have this time around.

In addition, for any member of the community who's only been watching up until this point, but would still like to contribute in some way-- here's your chance!

( What are beta readers, what's their purpose, and where can I find one (or three)? )