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ADMIN: Final reminder about banners and suggestions for 2010
Hi guys

I just wanted to provide a final reminder that there’s just a couple of days left to get in both requests for customized winners’ banners and suggestions for the 2010 awards -- the deadline for both is 20 January.

Banners

To make a request to have a winners’ banner customized, please go to the post at the mefas lj at http://community.livejournal.com/mefas/174466.html and follow the directions in the post.

Also, if you’ve “picked up” your customized banners, whether by saving the images or making a note of the links, we’d appreciate it if you could leave a final comment letting us know. That way, we can screen completed requests and make it easier for customizers to see what’s still outstanding.

Suggestions for 2010

If you have suggestions for the 2010 awards, please email them to us at mefasupport at gmail dot com with the subject line 2009 Post-Mortem.

Just to repeat that date: we will be taking banner customization requests and suggestions for the 2010 awards only up until 20 JANUARY 2010.

Thanks

Tanaqui
The MEFA Admin Team

Admin - Fund Drive Update
Hey guys,

A few weeks ago Tanaqui announced that we would be having a fund-raising drive to pay costs connected with our website. These donations don't go to award winners or to volunteers, but instead only pay the hosting costs associated with running the MEFA website. Many of you have very generously donated to the awards. Thank you! We now have a balance of $226.89. That is enough to pay our site hosting fees for at least the next year, and a good portion of the next year as well.

You may donate funds to the MEFAs anytime. Whether or not you can contribute financially, we still value any time you share as a volunteer or participant.

Thanks again for your generosity, guys, both in donating your money and your time - it is much appreciated.

At your service,

Marta
The MEFA Admin Team

[[ P.S. - If you wanted to donate, but didn't get a chance to yet, you can still do so at http://community.livejournal.com/mefas/191455.html While we have enough funds to keep the site going for some time, your donations are always welcome, and will postpone the need for future fund drives like this. ]]

ADMIN: Reminder about banners and suggestions for 2010 - deadline 20 Jan
Hi guys

I just wanted to remind you that there’s one week left to make both requests for customized winners’ banners and suggestions for the 2010 awards -- the deadline for both is 20 January.

Banners

To make a request to have a winners’ banner customized, please go to the post at the mefas lj at http://community.livejournal.com/mefas/174466.html and follow the directions in the post.

I'd also like to once more extend our thanks for all their hard work to our wonderful banner customizers: Cactuskim, Elena Tiriel, Elleth, Nath, Nieriel Raina andred lasbelin.

Suggestions for 2010

If you have any suggestions for the 2010 awards, please email them to us at mefasupport at gmail dot com with the subject line 2009 Post-Mortem.

Just to repeat that date: we will be taking banner customization requests and suggestions for the 2010 awards only up until 20 JANUARY 2010.

Thanks

Tanaqui
The MEFA Admin

ADMIN: Suggestions for 2010 Awards
Hey guys,

Every year we have welcomed suggestions from all MEFA members about ways that we can improve the awards in future years. As we did last year, we would like anyone who has a suggestion for the 2010 MEFAs to please email it to mefasupport at gmail dot com with the subject 2009 Post-Mortem.

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If you have any suggestions, please send them to mefasupport at gmail dot com. Because we need to plan for next year, please email your suggestions to us by January 20 at the latest.

Thanks,

Tanaqui
The MEFA Admin Team

Admin: Funds Drive
Hey guys,

It's that time again....

For the most part, the MEFAs don't cost anything but time. The website was designed and coded by volunteers and is run ad-free; the competition itself is run by volunteers. There is no cash reward for the winners, no monetary compensation even for the most active volunteers. It's a labor of love.

Which is precisely why we hate asking for donations. However, the company that hosts our website takes a slightly more capitalistic view of things. So we occasionally ask our members to chip in towards our site costs. Therefore:

This is completely voluntary. If you can't or don't want to give money, you can still participate. With the economic downturn affecting most of us in some way, no one is going begrudge anyone not spending money on fannish things. If you want to contribute to the awards in other ways, we will always be able to find a use for your time.

Second, whatever you contribute will go to our hosting fees and nothing else. (Marta controls the account, but she assures us she doesn't have a secret Amazon slush fund, and she's certainly not handing it out to the rest of us volunteers!) Every dollar, euro, pound or other currency you send goes on keeping the voting website online. The more that is donated, the longer it will be before we're back here with our hands out.

Oh, and in the past people have wanted to donate without doing so online. (Yes, some people don't have credit or debit cards – which is smart!) For these people, in the past, Marta has let them mail her checks, which she has deposited into her personal account, and then made a corresponding donation to the paypal account. If you'd like to do this, email us privately (mefasupport at mefawards dot net) and we'll give you Marta's current mailing address (with her permission, of course!). If you've sent a check in the past, please don't use any previous address Marta may have provided, as it's likely it's no longer being forwarded to her, but email us for the current address.

Thanks again to everyone for all your support of the MEFAs, however you give it.

Tanaqui
The MEFA Admin Team

ADMIN: 2009 MEFA Final Results
The 2009 Middle-earth Fanfiction Awards are now over, and here is the list of final results. If you'd like to read some of these stories or the reviews that were written about them, please check out the results at our web page. Just go to www.mefawards.net/MEFA2009 , log in (or click "log in as guest"), and click "2009 Story Results."

Before I list the results, I'd also like to offer CONGRATULATIONS to the following reviewers who met their reviewing goals set last spring:

Alassante, Cairistiona, Celeritas, Curiouswombat, Dapperscavenger, Dreamflower, Elena Tiriel, Elleth, Elliska, Erfan Starled, Esteliel, Faoiltierna, Fiondil, Garnet Took, Harrowcatliz, Imhiriel, Jedi Sapphire, KyMahalei, Larner, Linaewen, Linda Hoyland, Lissa, Nancy Brooke, NeumeIndil, Nieriel Raina, Obsidianj, Oshun, Raksha the Demon, Sevilodorf, Sindarelleth, SurgicalSteel, Tanaqui, Virtuella, Viv and White Wolf

These are by no means all the reviewers. Everyone who wrote a review, you deserve a round of applause!

And CONGRATULATIONS to the following authors for their success in this year's Middle-earth Fanfiction Awards.

( Here Be The Results )

Again, this by no means represents all of the good stories. Some sub-categories involved intense competition, and there are some very worthwhile entries not listed here. If you have the time, I encourage everyone to continue looking at any of this year's nominations that you didn't get to. You can still leave the author a review wherever the story is posted—I'm sure they'll appreciate it.

And thank you again to everyone for your participation this year - I think the 2009 awards were a great success, and it wouldn't have been without everyone contributing so much in so many different ways!

Here's to 2010!

Tanaqui
The MEFA Admin Team