Shameless Plug Time

[auronlu]

Okay, while I'm banging away on the Epic Battle chapter of LHaD (coming along nicely) -- stats time!
Chapters: 40 (40 is sitting on my HD being polished)
Words: ~90,000 (ack!)
Started: Dec. 14, 2007
One-shot that started it all: "Alternate Universe" posted on pyre_flies in Apr 2006. 1030 words.

FF.Net Stats: 11,300 hits; after initial die-off ~150 read to the end; 116 comments.
LJ Stats: 425 comments since Dec '07, of which about a third are my replies.

MUCHO thanks to all my reviewers/critics! Your feedback has made it 500% the story it would've been. Especial gratitude to my diehard commenters: trekqueen, cumuluscastle, muggy_mountain, owlmoose, melchar, jlsigman, vandevere

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Now. Shameless Plug and/or PSA!

The Genesis Awards keeps postponing the final awards for Final Fantasy X, and I'm guessing it's because not enough fics have been nominated in some categories. Partly for selfish reasons (LHaD was nominated, but can't compete if there's no contest), and partly because I absolutely want more of the fabulous Final Fantasy writers out there to get the credit they deserve, I am encouraging everybody to nominate one Final Fantasy X Fanfiction story that they think deserves some notice!

This is the first year the Genesis Awards has recognized any fandom besides FFVII, so I am eager to see FFX fic well-represented. (Apologies for sounding like a broken record.)

Comments

[melchar.livejournal.com]

I went, registered and voted for 'LH&D'. Yay Au/Lu

[auronlu.livejournal.com]

Eep. Thank you very much!

How about other authors' stories that deserve recognition?

LHaD is already nominated, and I am ever so grateful.

But as rsasai says, awards don't work if there's not enough entries to judge. "Best of a group of one" doesn't mean much. :)

Also, I'm equally desirous of seeing FFX fandom well-represented in general. I don't want the GA judges to survey the scanty list of nominations and conclude, "There just isn't very much good FFX fic out there." I know that's not so!

I've scoured my favorites and memories and poked through some of the FFX category on AO3 looking for worthy candidates to nominate, but I'm sure I've only found the tip of the iceberg.