Ello lovelies! Please pay close attention to these announcements! They are all EXTREMELY important!
So, I know I said that the nominating would end on January 24th, but since I've already gotten an OVERWHELMING amount of nominees, I'm going to shorten that date just a bit.
This Sunday JANUARY 12TH is the new deadline for entering nominees! Please keep nominating and spreading the word! You guys are doing a great job!
In other news, it's amazing really, I have SO MANY multi-chaptered fictions that were nominated, and only a handful of one-shots!
So please, consider all those brilliant one-shots you read this year! Those stories that were so good, and didn't make you wait a few days to know what happened next!
If, in the case, we do not reach more than 10 one-shots by the 11th, then I will have no choice but to combine the contest and in that case, we will have only 3 winners.
So I encourage you! Go through your favorites on your profile! Look for those amazing one-shots! I know I read plenty in 2013!
*************ATTENTION ALL AUTHORS! **************
I have two important announcements for you as well!
First, I think it's absolutely fine if you add an author's note to the story in which you were nominated for, HOWEVER please please please PLEASE do not add that authors note to stories that I have not told you were nominated! I need to be able to know when the last REAL update was! Does that make sense? Let me try and make that clearer…
So let's say I PM you and tell you that your story "Mystery" was nominated. So you get all excited and throw a little party, and then you go and add an author's note to "Mystery" to thank your readers and encourage them to vote!
Now I would have already checked "Mystery" so I know that it was finished before the New Year.
But then, you go and add the same authors note to ALL of your stories. That now makes everyone of them look like they were completed in 2014.
So say I see one of your other stories got nominated, "Mystery II." When I go to check the update date, I'll only see that it was finished in 2014, and therefore, I won't count it.
I promise, I'm going to do my best to watch out for this. But it happened once and I worked it out with the author, but I don't want to see any stories not get counted. So please be careful (:
And secondly, I will no longer be PM'ing you if it is about the same story nominated more than once. I will only be PM'ing you if you have new stories nominated.
If anyone has any confusions, questions, or concerns, feel free to contact me!
Good Luck! And Keep Nominating!
-MysteryMe317
**REMINDER: JANUARY 12TH IS THE NEW DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS**