Check out the review of our winning author's story on the Sookieverse blog here:
(banners coming soon)
http://www.thesookieverse.com/2010/11/review-winning-entry-for-first-blood.html
Tell us about Eric's First Blood. AH, AU, or Canon. As a vamp looking for a meal, a human at war, a man out for revenge, or a doctor on his first day what do you imagine his first kill to be? Dates to be announced soon...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
Contest Winners!
We are very pleased to announce the results of the First Blood Contest!
Our first place winner as determined by our judges scoring was our only entry submitted by a new author and we look forward to following her as she continues to delight and entertain us with her version of Eric and all our favourite SVM characters:
as winner will be featured in a write up and review of her story by nycsnowbird on The Sookieverse Blog. Links will be posted on the profile as well as on the contest blog, keep your eyes peeled.
After a tie in the second round of voting, we have two public vote winners with an equal 34% of the vote.
Your two winning choices perfectly illustrate the diversity we hoped to showcase in this amazing fandom:
First Blood, Kinda Sorta by Suki59
And
The second place winner in our public vote as well as our 2nd place choice in the judges scoring was our only collaboration!
Banners (courtesy of sapfirerose of mysvmaddiction) will be made available on the blog as soon as possible.
We would like to thank everyone involved in this contest: the authors who took the time to create these inspired and exciting versions of Eric’s story, the volunteers sapfirerose and nycsnowbird who helped us out with some awesome prizes, the judges who made the time to read and review each entry, the followers of the contest who voted in multiple rounds, and of course the amazing SVM community who helped get the word out.
Check out all the authors below:
Seventh Precinct by Missus_T
First Blood, Kinda Sorta by Suki59
Dead But Not Buried by RienMuse
Born to Die: Memoirs of a Viking by BatsOut
Monday, October 25, 2010
Final Voting Round
Our first round of voting resulted in a 3-way tie and now it's up to you to choose our winner. See the poll on our profile page at fanfiction.net
Congratulations to all of those who entered and the great stories!
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Public Voting Open
Please take a few minutes over the next 10 days to read all the entries and vote for your top pick in the contest!
http://www.fanfiction.net/~firstbloodcontest
The drop down menu at the top of the page will show you the choices:
First Blood, Kinda Sorta
Dead, But Not Buried
Seventh Precinct
My Little Warrior
Born to Die: Memoirs of a Viking
The Unknown Suspect
http://www.fanfiction.net/~firstbloodcontest
The drop down menu at the top of the page will show you the choices:
First Blood, Kinda Sorta
Dead, But Not Buried
Seventh Precinct
My Little Warrior
Born to Die: Memoirs of a Viking
The Unknown Suspect
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Because we love you all so much and we can't wait to read more we have extended the submission date to:
12 am mountain time, Tuesday October 12th, 2010
(all other dates will be changed to reflect this in the days to come)
Need inspiration? Check out the entries and promo fic listed on our profile on fanfiction.net:
http://www.fanfiction.net/~firstbloodcontest
Need inspiration? Check out the entries and promo fic listed on our profile on fanfiction.net:
http://www.fanfiction.net/~firstbloodcontest
Friday, September 3, 2010
Promo fic posted!
Check out our first promo fic by host SibylVane Vamp on our ff.net profile:
Aftertaste
Check it out, then write your own! Submissions accepted as of Monday Sept 6th.
Aftertaste
Check it out, then write your own! Submissions accepted as of Monday Sept 6th.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
More News
Prizes have been posted on the prizes page, there are two new banners for youto steal added to the page or here:
http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/7430/ttt6.jpg
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/7772/retyty1.jpg
both created by the talented smittenskitten.
And last, but certainly not least, our final two judges have been recruited.
smvaddict http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2096505/svmaddict and
vicvega66 http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2073413/
Both have agreed to add their help and insight to this contest in our effort to reward you for your amazing writing efforts. I'm sure they have a tough job ahead of them, along with our other committed judges.
http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/7430/ttt6.jpg
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/7772/retyty1.jpg
both created by the talented smittenskitten.
And last, but certainly not least, our final two judges have been recruited.
smvaddict http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2096505/svmaddict and
vicvega66 http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2073413/
Both have agreed to add their help and insight to this contest in our effort to reward you for your amazing writing efforts. I'm sure they have a tough job ahead of them, along with our other committed judges.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Contest Announcement!
Give us your best story about Eric Northman’s first kill. As a vampire out of control with hunger, a human at war, a surgeon who loses a patient on the table. You tell us! Creativity is encouraged, think outside the box!
If you are a first time writer looking for a reason to pick up that pen- here’s your chance.
Contest Rules:
All entries must feature Eric Northman as the main character, but all others additions are up to you.
All entries must be a new one-shot (which can be extended or added to after the contest), between 3,500 and 12,000 words.
Entries must be BETA’d, if you need help finding one check out the thread in the Sookieverse forum, or search beta reader profiles by fandom. Don’t be shy, they won’t bite.
M rated stories may only be authored by those over 18 yrs of age.
All genres and styles will be included (AH/AU/Canon).
You may submit more than one story, but are limited to two entries, this includes 1 entry as a single author and 1 as a collaboration.
Collaborations are allowed.
If working within a historical time frame please research for the best accuracy, we are giving you plenty of time, so we mean business.
All entries must be submitted by the contest deadline of Sept 27- 12:00am mountain time.
This contest is anonymous and therefore you may NOT post the completed work to your own profile or any other site until the contest has ended. This is a blind voting process.
A story will be disqualified if the author does not remain anonymous and shares their identity, hints which is theirs. etc. Want to keep this as fair as possible.
Be creative, but careful with subject matter: any story that glamorizes rape, incest, adultery, unnecessary violence pedophilia, etc. will be considered inappropriate and will not be included for consideration. If your story requires a warning to readers please include one in the headings.
All entries must contain a disclaimer, (Charlaine Harris and any other author must be given credit for the ownership of all SVM characters).
Though this is not an exclusive contest for first time authors we do encourage you to get your fangs wet on this one.
Should the number of entries in each category of writers allow for it two categories will be considered for judging and votes, one for virgin and near virgin writers and one for those who have been pillaged by the Viking: the top from each will be awarded. One will be decided by judges’ choice and the other by public vote.
Headers must include:
Submitting your entry:
Once your story is written and beta’d please contact the contest hosts at firstbloodcontest @ gmail (dot) com with your story attached. Include your pen name and a link to your ff.net profile in the body of the email. All documents must be sent in either Microsoft Word or OpenOffice formats. (Open office is available for free download at openoffice.org or download.com) Once reviewed your submission will be posted to the contest profile and on the blog. . Make sure your document is the way you’d like it to appear when posted, as we will not be making any edits for you. What you send is what we post.
Promotion:
Though you cannot pimp your own fic exclusively we highly encourage tweeting, blogging, and posting to bring readers to all the contest entries on either the blog or FF.net account. Please check often for sample fics from some helpful authors. If you tweet, it should be for the contest as a whole, not for any specific entry, to be completely fair to all entrants. More established authors looking to alert their loyal followers to the contest (without giving away their fic) are welcome to post a “chapter” with all the contest details above on their profile to garner interest in all the entries. It’s fun to have your followers try to guess your voice/style out of all the submissions.
You can follow us on twitter @ericsfirstblood
Check out our profile on fanfiction.net @ http://www.fanfiction.net/~firstbloodcontest
A thread will be set up in the Sookieverse forum on ff.net for the contest as well for updates and queries.
Mark your calendars:
Sept 1- Contest launch
Sept 6- 1st day of submissions
Sept 27- Submission deadline- 12:00AM Mountain Time
Oct 4- 14- Public votes in both categories
Oct 15-22- Final round voting
Oct 25- Winners, judges picks, and nods announced
Dates may be subject to change depending on the number of entries or other unforeseen circumstances.
Just who is running this show you ask?
SibylVane Vamp - http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2072467/SibylVane_Vamp
Bloodsucker815- http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1236470/BloodSucker815
huntley- http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2113233/huntley
The Judges:
krismom - http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1826676/krismom
moxie.mo - http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2061522/moxie_mo
Vamplover1 - http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1827570/VampLover1
Please don't contact the judges with questions. If you need clarification you can PM this account, Sibyl, Blood, or huntley, contact the account through twitter, email, or the blog. We'll do our best to answer any questions you may have as quickly as possible.
Judges and Hosts are not permitted to act as beta’s for any entries.
Prize announcements coming soon.
If you are a seasoned writer who has been pillaged by the Viking before- show us what you got.
Or if you are only new to contest writing let this be your first effort.
Contest Rules:
All entries must feature Eric Northman as the main character, but all others additions are up to you.
All entries must be a new one-shot (which can be extended or added to after the contest), between 3,500 and 12,000 words.
Entries must be BETA’d, if you need help finding one check out the thread in the Sookieverse forum, or search beta reader profiles by fandom. Don’t be shy, they won’t bite.
M rated stories may only be authored by those over 18 yrs of age.
All genres and styles will be included (AH/AU/Canon).
You may submit more than one story, but are limited to two entries, this includes 1 entry as a single author and 1 as a collaboration.
Collaborations are allowed.
If working within a historical time frame please research for the best accuracy, we are giving you plenty of time, so we mean business.
All entries must be submitted by the contest deadline of Sept 27- 12:00am mountain time.
This contest is anonymous and therefore you may NOT post the completed work to your own profile or any other site until the contest has ended. This is a blind voting process.
A story will be disqualified if the author does not remain anonymous and shares their identity, hints which is theirs. etc. Want to keep this as fair as possible.
Be creative, but careful with subject matter: any story that glamorizes rape, incest, adultery, unnecessary violence pedophilia, etc. will be considered inappropriate and will not be included for consideration. If your story requires a warning to readers please include one in the headings.
All entries must contain a disclaimer, (Charlaine Harris and any other author must be given credit for the ownership of all SVM characters).
Though this is not an exclusive contest for first time authors we do encourage you to get your fangs wet on this one.
Should the number of entries in each category of writers allow for it two categories will be considered for judging and votes, one for virgin and near virgin writers and one for those who have been pillaged by the Viking: the top from each will be awarded. One will be decided by judges’ choice and the other by public vote.
Headers must include:
First Blood Contest
Title:
Writer status: 1st time offender(virgin authors),
Parolee (near virgin authors),
or Serial (authors of more than two stories):
Beta:
Characters:
Disclaimer:
Any story that does not comply will not be admitted to the contest profile.
Submitting your entry:
Once your story is written and beta’d please contact the contest hosts at firstbloodcontest @ gmail (dot) com with your story attached. Include your pen name and a link to your ff.net profile in the body of the email. All documents must be sent in either Microsoft Word or OpenOffice formats. (Open office is available for free download at openoffice.org or download.com) Once reviewed your submission will be posted to the contest profile and on the blog. . Make sure your document is the way you’d like it to appear when posted, as we will not be making any edits for you. What you send is what we post.
Promotion:
Though you cannot pimp your own fic exclusively we highly encourage tweeting, blogging, and posting to bring readers to all the contest entries on either the blog or FF.net account. Please check often for sample fics from some helpful authors. If you tweet, it should be for the contest as a whole, not for any specific entry, to be completely fair to all entrants. More established authors looking to alert their loyal followers to the contest (without giving away their fic) are welcome to post a “chapter” with all the contest details above on their profile to garner interest in all the entries. It’s fun to have your followers try to guess your voice/style out of all the submissions.
You can follow us on twitter @ericsfirstblood
Check out our profile on fanfiction.net @ http://www.fanfiction.net/~firstbloodcontest
A thread will be set up in the Sookieverse forum on ff.net for the contest as well for updates and queries.
Mark your calendars:
Sept 1- Contest launch
Sept 6- 1st day of submissions
Sept 27- Submission deadline- 12:00AM Mountain Time
Oct 4- 14- Public votes in both categories
Oct 15-22- Final round voting
Oct 25- Winners, judges picks, and nods announced
Dates may be subject to change depending on the number of entries or other unforeseen circumstances.
Just who is running this show you ask?
SibylVane Vamp - http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2072467/SibylVane_Vamp
Bloodsucker815- http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1236470/BloodSucker815
huntley- http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2113233/huntley
The Judges:
krismom - http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1826676/krismom
moxie.mo - http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2061522/moxie_mo
Vamplover1 - http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1827570/VampLover1
Please don't contact the judges with questions. If you need clarification you can PM this account, Sibyl, Blood, or huntley, contact the account through twitter, email, or the blog. We'll do our best to answer any questions you may have as quickly as possible.
Judges and Hosts are not permitted to act as beta’s for any entries.
Prize announcements coming soon.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Coming soon...
Details will be posted soon for the rules, dates and all other important information right here as well as on our profile page on FanFiction.net:
http://www.fanfiction.net/~firstbloodcontest
Thanks for dropping in, stop in again soon for everything you need to know.
http://www.fanfiction.net/~firstbloodcontest
Thanks for dropping in, stop in again soon for everything you need to know.
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