Ghost Stories Contest Fanfic Winner

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Well guys, here are the results for the Ghost Stories Fanfic Challenge. Sorry, it took a couple of days, things go busy at work. ^_^;

So, here are the results:

1st Place: Believe- booksrgood4u
2nd Place: The Ghost of Old Eddis- Shadowgirlvg
3rd Place: Stone Fox: A Ghost Story - deirdrej

Congrats to everyone! openedlocket is working on your banners so expect them soon.

Also, here's a mini annoucement. Last year, many of you will probably recalled that I held the first Queen's Thief Secret Santa event and it was a ton of fun. However, I won't be holding it this year due to I'm expecting to have a very busy holiday and thus won't have time to run it.

With that said, if anyone here wants to take over this year you are more than welcome to. You can even use the qt_secretsanta community to run it. If someone did take over, I would be more than happy to take part in it. I just don't have the time to actually run it.

Comments

[1221bookworm.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to all the winners!! :) I enjoyed all of them.

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

Wow! Thanks everyone! I really enjoyed this challenge, and it was so nice to see more fanfics than the last two challenges - Dierdre and Shadowgirl, your fics were awesome. Thanks, Earthstar, for all you do!

[shadowgirlvg.livejournal.com]

This was definitely a ton of fun! Thanks for making such a great contest!

So, what exactly goes into running the Secret Santa thing?

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! ^_^

Basically, what I do, you make a post for people to sign up, then try to match up people to their secret santas (there are online secret santa generators that I've used), email them each and tell them who they're making a gift to, make another post later on for people to leave their names to receive their gifts and keeping up to make sure that everyone has gotten their gift.

If someone isn't able to produce a gift then you either have to take on doing the gift yourself or finding a pitch-hitter, which is basically a person that doesn't mind making an extra last minute gift. (I had a question if a person would mind being a pitch-hitter as part of the form people fill out to sign-up for secret santa.) Then of course answering questions and helping people if they're having problems uploading their gift for their giftee to receive.

Granted, there could be a different style in doing it, and if there is that's fine. This is just how I've been doing it. If you're interested in doing it, let me know and I'll let you have moderator access to the secret santa community that you can use.

[shadowgirlvg.livejournal.com]

Alright. I guess I wouldn't mind giving this a go. About how much notice do you think people should have?

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

I try to give people as much notice as possible, so if you do want to do it I would do the sign-ups this month and I tend to give a people a week for each part. (A week to sign up, a week to post gifts, etc).

Do you want mod access to the qt_secretsanta community? I find it easier to post stuff there. Also, if you need any advice or tips, or if you even just want to copy the posts I made feel free. I will be here to poke for advice as much as you want. ^_~

[shadowgirlvg.livejournal.com]

Alright, cool. And yes, I would like access to the secret santa community. I think that would make things much easier. Thanks for your help!

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Okay, you should have control on it now. Go ahead and see if it works, if it doesn't let me know and I'll try to fix it. ^_~

[deirdrej.livejournal.com]

Hi!

Here I am (checking in a little late, but life has been rather hectic).

I just wanted to thank you for holding the contest and extend congratulations to the winners (I mean the other winners). It was fun!

Secret Santa sounds like an awesome idea -- I gather it's just online gifts of some stripe? How does it work?

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, everybody, and I'll be checking in again as soon as I can.

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, all the gifts are exchanged online, like fanfics, drawings, icons, fan soundtracks, etc. Basically people sign up and they receive a person to make a secret santa gift for.

I'm not doing it this year since I don't have the time, but one of the others might do it this year.