Well, it's time. the writers and stories you voted for for the past few weeks are about ot discover how they did in.... THE COTT AWARDS SCHEME!
And the winners are... (cue drumroll...)
For the category of Best Comedy, Elegos-Sirinial-Shamtul, with 107 things I will not do to the Titans!
For Best romance, we have: Nuuoa, with New Spring.
For the Best Slah/Crack fic, the winner is, (and in my opinion could only ever have been), Need, by Demenoir.
Best Action/Adventure, the prize goes to... African Titan, for Written in Stone.
Embodying the characters correctly is tricky to do, but apparently, no-one does it better then Nuuoa, with New Spring!
OC's. Not always original, but none more so then... African Titan's Gareth Stuart.
And when it comes to storylines, you don't get more original then African Titan AGAIN with Written in Stone.
A surprise winner for Best New Author (to me, at least) Elegos-Sirinial-Shamtul!
But I doubt anyone was surprised by Best Author, you guessed it, African Titan.
And, finally, for the category of Best Fic... do I even need to say? in what rapidly seems to be becoming a theme, Written in Stone by African Titan.
From this, auspicious start to what I hope will continue for many long years, we can take away a few lessons. 1)African Titan should basically be a published author by now, 2) All of us have the potential for greatness, and in my mind most important, 3) Only in the COTT archive could something like this work. We are not just a group of writers. we're a community, and no matter what people may try, we will never be turned against each other. WE ARE UNBREAKABLE!
Thank you for reading, for voting, and most importantly, for writing in the first place.
And please, all you winners, please, PM your acceptance speeches to me, I'll post them on a new chapter of this.