I know many of you may be new to the fandom world of Buffy fic and don't know some of the conditions regarding award sites. The most active of which is the Sunnydale Memorial Awards. A wonderful site with great people offering their time to showcase good fic.
http://sunnydawards.dragonydreams.com/
Obviously there are rules there as there is here. We have people register if you wish to read/access NC17 and above ratings. We do this to protect the site from legal accusations of allowing underage reading of "porn" or other age restricted material. Because of that rule of ours the Sunnydale Memorial awards site will not take NC17 and above stories if the link is to our site.
As the awards are reader voted upon they do not want the voter to have to register to read. This is stated in their rules with EF specifically mentioned.
If your story is under an NC17 rating you can link from here but if it is NC17 or above you have to have the link to a site where there is no registration needed to read it. This means posting somewhere that is acceptable AS WELL AS HERE (I say that because I really don't want anyone NOT posting here....we value our writers and stories!)
So. If you write and your story is NC17 or above and you want your story to be able to be nominated for an award you need to look into someplace like LJ or your own site or Archive of our Own or FFnet or a site where registration is not required. These are free sites (even LJ) and most user friendly.
If you, reader, wish to nominate one of the great stories or authors here make sure their story is under NC17 or look for another place to link the story.
Hope I haven't confused anyone.
Here are the rules from Sunnydale Memorial BTW:
- Please nominate only one person per submission.
- When you nominate someone for Best Beta, please say who they beta for in the space provided.
- Only ONE character can be nominated per story for the Best Characterization category. Please say which character in the space provided.
- You can NOT nominate an author for both Best Author and Best New Author.
- If you nominate someone for Best Author or Best New Author, please nominate a story of theirs as well.
- A story can not be nominated as both Angst (or) Drama and Comedy (or) Fluff.
- You CAN nominate a story in more than one category.
- You can nominate an Unfinished fic in ANY category.
- You can nominate yourself, but you still can not vote for yourself.
- You can NOT nominate more than one story by the same author in any category.
- An author can be nominated no more than 3 times in a category, and only if each nomination is by a different person.
- If an author (Best Author or Best New Author), story or website was a Winner or Runner Up in the last round they/it is not eligible for that category for the current round.
- You must include a working link to the story nominated - no locked LJ entries or sites you must log into in order to read the stories (like Elysian Fields), as well as a working email address so that the author can be notified of their nomination. If these are not provided, the nomination will be discarded.
--pfeifferpack on August 10, 2015 05:04pm 4 Comments
Thanks!
It's good to know about the email work around! I've sometimes given up on nominating things because the writer doesn't list an email.
Great information! I have alsways wondered how the award sites work. It has always seemed like a closely-guarded secret.
Just to clarify on the email - you don't have to provide one IF the author can be contacted through their EF or FF.net or LJ or AO3 profile. In the 'provide an email' box, copy/paste the link to the author's profile.
How to tell if they can be contacted that way? If an author is still active on that site - has posted or reviewed or logged in recently - it's a good bet the SunnyD mods will be able to contact them by sending them a PM.
It's a handy trick if you want to maintain your anonymity and not let authors know who nominated them.