First Blood Contest: November 2010

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:

Born to Die: Memoirs of a Viking by BatsOut

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

Born to Die: Memoirs of a Viking by brand new author BatsOut.

The second place winner in our public vote as well as our 2^nd place choice in the judges scoring was our only collaboration!

The Unknown Suspect by sapfirerose and blueiris

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

Min Lilla Krigare: Little Warrior by Momma2Leos

The Unknown Suspect by sapfirerose and blueiris

Born to Die: Memoirs of a Viking by BatsOut