Warriors Fanfiction: The Next Big Thing

by Empress Tansy

I'm sure many of you remember the Warriors Fanfiction Choice Awards from earlier in the year, but now it's time to get some lesser known authors and stories some recognition. Vote for your new favorite stories that are just in their beginnings or a new author who shows great potential. Let's see the Next Big Thing in Warriors fanfiction!

1. Chapter 1

Firestar reclined in an over-sized green Lazy-boy chair and grabbed the TV remote, turning on his giant 82-inch screen television. Scrolling through the channels, he selected CrimeCatTV- his all time favorite channel. CSI: ThunderClan was on commercial break at the time, and a familiar light ginger tabby was on the screen, talking about some new thing she was doing.

"Hello, everybody!" the she-cat meowed. "Tansy here with an exciting announcement! You all know me as the all-powerful president of Warrior Television Network and owner of CrimeCatTV, ClanTV, and Catalodean, and I'm sure you all remember the big award show I put on last April- the Warriors Fanfiction Choice Awards, right? Sure you do. Anyway, I have decided to do another award show. This time the purpose of the awards will not be to recognize already popular stories or authors, but up-and-coming writers and their stories! Coming January 2015 will be the all-new, never-seen-before Warriors Fanfiction: The Next Big Thing. Here's how it works:

I will have several categories that stories and writers can be nominated for:

Best Up-and-Coming Tragedy/Hurt Story

Best Up-and-Coming Drama

Best Up-and-Coming Action/Adventure

Best Up-and-Coming Family/Friendship Story

Best Underrated Canon Story (One of the actual books in the series that often gets overlooked)

Best Up-and-Coming Alternate Universe Story (different Clans, different characters, human, etc)

Best Underrated Warriors Story That Deserves more Recognition

Best Underrated Warriors Author That Deserves more Recognition

Best Up-and-Coming Canon Protagonist

Best Up-and-Coming Canon Villain

Best Up-and-Coming Spoof

These are your categories. Now I have to explain the boring rules. To nominate a story, it must fit one of two requirements: under ten chapters and unfinished or longer than ten chapters, but under forty reviews. To nominate an author, they must fit one of two requirements: they must have had their account for six months or less or their combined number of reviews must be under one hundred. To nominate a story or author, please send Tansy a private message. Do not leave your nominees in the comments section. You may nominate as many stories or authors as you like. I will give you a few days to make your nominations. You may also nominate a cat to host the award show. The host can by ANY canon character. If there is a tie, then the two with the most votes will be co-hosts. Happy nominating! Let's get some authors recognition in time for the New Year!"

Firestar paused his TV, thinking over the announcement carefully. "Hm...there are some amazing stories that simply aren't getting the reviews they deserve. I better nominate a few!"