Lois & Clark Forums Forums Fan Fiction Fanfic Related Announcing the 2004 Kerth Award Nominees!

Well, here they are, folcs...the final list of nominees for the 2004 Lois & Clark Fanfic Kerth Awards! Congratulations to all the nominees!

Erin hopes to get the website updated by tomorrow, but since we have the ballot completed, we thought we'd go ahead and post the finalists a day early. After all, you have a lot of reading to do before voting starts on Saturday, March 6th!

Once again, this was an extremely competitive year for L&C fanfic, and we have an amazing list of really terrific stories. (Evidence the number of stories on the ballot for Best Overall -- this has never happened before!) And the outstanding quality of stories that *didn't* make it onto the short list also proves just how talented the writers are in our fandom! Everyone who writes fanfiction about our favorite couple is a winner in our book, since these stories bring us (and everyone else out there in our fandom, we're sure!) hours and hours of reading pleasure. Thank you!

And, of course, we need to send out a huge thank you to everyone who sent in their lists of nominations this year. Without your participation, these awards certainly wouldn't be what they are.

Remember, voting starts Monday, March 6th. Check the Kerth website (as well as this forum) for more information as we get closer to the time.

www.erinklingler.com/lnc/kerths.html

Now, without further adieu, here's this year's list of nominees!

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2004 Kerth Award Nominees

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Best Super Short:

At the Beginning, by Sara
Gossip, by Shayne Terry
Robitussin, by Jen D
Sure As One And One Is Two, by Jenni Debbage
When A Door Closes, by Barb Pillsbury
Zombies Ate My Homework, by Paul-Gabriel Weiner

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Best Short Story:

Into Each Life, by Kathy Brown
It's All About the Raisins, by Gerry Anklewicz
I've Got This Friend, by Supermom
Kindred Spirits, by AnnieM
Lois Unbuttoned, by CC Aiken

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Best WAFFY:

Friends and Lovers, by Wendy Richards
Into Each Life, by Kathy Brown
It's All About the Raisins, by Gerry Anklewicz
Lovesick, by Kathy Brown
Road Trip, by Lynn M.
Seasons Out Of Time, by Kaethel

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Best Comedy:

Battle of the Network Printers, by Pam Jernigan and Yvonne Connell
Robitusson, by Jen D.
Tea Totaled, by AnnieM and Kathy Brown
Well, I'll Be A Kryptonian's Uncle, by Paul-Gabriel Wiener
Zombies Ate My Homework, by Paul-Gabriel Wiener

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Best Holiday:

In The Bleak Mid-Winter, by Wendy Richards
The Last Valentine, by Yvonne Connell
Merry Smoochie To You, by Missy Gallant
Santa Baby, by Wanda Detroit
Super Santa Claus Man, by Lynn M.
An Unexpected Valentine, by Kaethel

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Best Mid-Length:

Fact or Ficus?, by Meredith Knight
Midnight Gambit, by ML Thompson
Playing for Keeps, by AnnieM
The Red Skirt, by Carol Malo
Soul ... Mates?, by Wendy Richards and Tank Wilson

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Best Short Revelation:

Chaos Unspool, by Pam Jernigan
Clark Uncaged, by CC Aiken
Fact or Ficus?, by Meredith Knight
It Only Hurts When I Breathe, by Wendy Richards
The Red Skirt, by Carol Malo

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Best Short Ep Adapt:

Midnight Gambit, by ML Thompson
When the Wrong One Loves You Right, by Sara
On the Turn of a Card, by Nan Smith
Seeing Red, by Missy Gallant
Speed/Decisions, by Alicia U.

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Best Long Revelation:

I is for Illusions, by Pam Jernigan
Momentum 2: The Revelation, by Kathy Brown
Poison, by Wendy Richards
Save Me, Superman, by Lynn M.
Yesterday, Upon the Stairs, by Carol Malo

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Long Ep Adapt:

Epiphany, by LabRat
J is for JetSet, by Pam Jernigan
Lost Innocence, by RL
Pheromone More Likely, by Nan Smith
When Larry Met Charlie, by Wendy Richards

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Best Drama:

Buried Secrets, by Nan Smith
Purgatory, by Stopquitdont
Rage, by Lynn M.
When the West Wind Moves, by Elle Roberts
Yellow Fever, by ML Thompson

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Best Relationship:

Desperately Seeking Clark, by AnnieM
Epiphany, by LabRat
Momentum 2: The Revelation, by Kathy Brown
Starwood in Aspen, by Lynn M.
Tea Totaled, by AnnieM and Kathy Brown

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Best Epic:

An Extraordinary Man II: Part Two -- Trials and Triumphs, by Christine Carr
Kidnapped!, by Yvonne Connell
To Protect and Serve, by Tank Wilson
When Larry Met Charlie, by Wendy Richards
Yesterday, Upon the Stairs, by Carol Malo

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Best Tearjerker:

Addicted, by Yvonne Connell
Kidnapped!, by Yvonne Connell
Purgatory, by Stopquitdont
Rage, by Lynn M.
Save Me, Superman, by Lynn M.
Yellow Fever, ML Thompson

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Best Alt/Elseworlds:

Addicted, by Yvonne Connell
An Extraordinary Man II: Part Two -- Trials and Triumphs, by Christine Carr
Through the Window/And Back Again, by CC Aiken
To Protect and Serve, by Tank Wilson
When the West Wind Moves, by Elle Roberts

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Best Early Years/Super Futures:

Daddy's Little Girl, by Nan Smith
A Father's Wisdom, by Betsy Rogers
A Kent Family Christmas Fairy Tale, by Jenni Debbage
The Last Valentine, by Yvonne Connell
Suspicions, by Nan Smith

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Most Innovative:

Battle of the Network Printers, by Pam Jernigan and Yvonne Connell
Chaos Unspool, by Pam Jernigan
A Future Rewound/A Future ReRouted, by Tank Wilson
Lois and Clark: The Episodic Adventures of Superman, by Anna Belcher
The Portrait, by Jude Williams

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Best Series:

I is for Illusions/J is for Jet Set, by Pam Jernigan
Lois Unbuttoned/Superman Undone/Clark Uncaged, by CC Aiken
Playing to Win/Playing for Keeps/Playing by Heart, by AnnieM
Strangers IV: Tender Mercies/Strangers V: Kissing Friends, by Missy Gallant
Through The Window/And Back Again, by CC Aiken

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Best New Author:

CC Aiken
Elle Roberts
Lynn M.
RL (Roger Lo)
Sara

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Best Overall:

Addicted, by Yvonne Connell
An Extraordinary Man II: Part Two -- Trials and Triumphs, by Christine Carr
Kidnapped!, by Yvonne Connell
Rage, by Lynn M.
When Larry Met Charlie, by Wendy Richards
Yellow Fever, by ML Thompson
Yesterday, Upon the Stairs, by Carol Malo

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Congrats to all the nominees and thank you to everyone who participated in the nomination process. Happy reading!

Kathy, with Erin, Pam and Annette
The Kerth Committee

Well, colour me surprised. <G> I wasn't expecting to find Epiphany nominated, being sure that since it was posted soooooooooo long ago that I'd all but forgotten it, surely everyone else would have too by this point. Well done, everyone and well done too to our hard-working K-Comm for working through the stats.

LabRat

Congrats to all the nominees!

Also, I'd like to give a huge thank you to the FoLCs who nominated my own Seasons Out of Time and An Unexpected Valentine. I haven't had much time for writing last year, so I didn't expect to see anything of mine short-listed at all. Seeing that two of the few fanfics I released were appreciated enough to justify a nomination makes me thrilled beyond anything. You've all made my day!

Kaethel

Wow!!!!!!!!!! Lynn and CC are not only competing against each other, they're competing against themselves!

Congratulations to everyone who's nominated, and good luck to everyone! And a huge thanks to everyone who nominated my stories - I never expected nominations this year with such incredible competition, so I'm overwhelmed.

Time to get reading... and re-reading...


Wendy

Warmest congratulations to all the nominees, and many thanks to those who nominated my stories. Colour me at least as surprised as Rat, however, that Battle Of The Network Printers, in particular, made it into two categories. Wow!

/me makes mental note to write more stories with Pam.

Yvonne

Congrats to all the nominees!!!

Jose

Congrats to all the nominees! It's going to be tough deciding this year, there are so many great stories. Guess I should get out my dice, quarters, and pins...

Congratulations to all!

Wow, these are some tough races all around! So much good fic. We are a truly a lucky bunch of FoLC!

~Liz

lol! I think I was riding your coattails this year, Y, but yeah, that was very surprising to me, too! I've never gotten so much feedback that started off along the lines of "were you drunk, or what?"

I was really pleased to see all the new names on the ballot this year, too -- it's been a banner year for fanfic

Now all we have to do is wait another month to see who wins. Everybody remember to vote!

PJ

Congratulations to all the nominees!! So many wonderful stories there to decide amongst. And huge thanks to those of you who nominated my 2 stories. I hadn't expected to be nominated and I'm pretty excited right now.
Also - many thanks to the K-Com and also to all those fanfic writers whose stories have given me so much pleasure.

c.

I have always wanted to say this:

It's a honor just to be nominated.

And it really is. Thank you everyone. And congrats to all writers out there.

CC

gasp...

Sara [stunned, shocked, in need of oxygen... <g>]

Congratulations to all the nominees!

It's one heck of a list with so many different stories. I have no idea if I'll be able to make any decision in time. They're all so good! Rat, can I have a pin?

Saskia

Wow. Just wow. Amazing.

Congratulations to all of the nominations. I would hereby like to place myself in the very front of the line to borrow LabRat's pin because there is simply no way I'm going to be able to pick when all of the stories on the ballot just blow me away.

I have to say, CC summed up my thoughts exactly. I'm just so excited to be nominated. I figure that after this year, there's no way to go but down <g>. Cause it can't get any better than this. So thank you so much to those who nominated my stories. You've made my year!

Well, I've got my list ready, my cup of hot chocolate steaming, and my laptop fired up for some good couch reading. Anyone out there have a great scoring system to help me out here?

Thanks!
Lynn

That's an awesome list of nominations. And I can truthfully say that many of my favourite stories are on that list already and it's going to be tough to decide which ones to vote for. (I guess, I'll just have to read my through them again. Poor me

And to have my story nominated...in two categories..is doubly awesome. Thank you. I must say that I enjoyed writing that little story.

humbly,
gerry

Wahoo, congratulations to everyone who's nominated! I'm going to have a hard time picking stories!

And as Jerry is singing right now on my computer, goodness gracious great balls of fire! There are so many great authors here, I never assumed in a million years I'd be nominated. I'm very touched that you guys thought enough of my story to nominate it.

Peace
JD

Add my congratulations to all the nominees, a really outstanding list. And a heartfelt thank you for recognizing The Portrait. I'm honored for it to be included with so many great stories.

Jude

/me trundles into the channel and unloads pin stockpiles as requested. Free of charge, finest steel-tipped, rust-proof.

LabRat (who knew there was a downside to all of her nominees getting on the nominations list and has suddenly realised what it is...)

This isn't even ABOUT Lois and Clark. How can it be L&C fanfic?

If this is eligible, shouldn't other original fiction be eligible too?

Hi there,

Bringing up the rear-gaurd in this thread, as ever.

I'd just like to say thank you, thank you to all those who nominated both my stories. This has been a hard year for me and finding the time and inclination to write wasn't easy. So these nominations mean a lot to me.

Congratulations to all the other nominees and it seems I have a busy time ahead, curtting up names and putting them in a hat. How else do you choose a winner amongst all those great stories?

I'd ask LabRat for her pin, but I have a feeling it's already been commandeered.

Yours Jenni

I'm positively stunned. With all the talented FoLCs writing fanfic, I never expected to even come close to a nomination, let alone getting one for my very first personal fic. Wow! And to get a nomination for BNA, too!

Thank you to everyone who read my stories. I'm still rather stunned, not knowing exactly what to say or how to thank everybody.

I would like to say a big congratulations to all the other nominees. What a wonderful crop of stories we had last year! Here's to hoping for more in 2004!

And another wow. This makes post #500!

Hi Cardlady

Well, you see, it's allegorical: Clark v Lex, good v evil. At least, that's how I saw it.


Wendy

Congratulations to all the nominees!

Tricia

Re: Battle of the Network Printers.

Well, can only speak for myself, but I certainly saw it as LNC fic - basically for the reasons Wendy gave - and nominated it as such. I guess others must have shared my opinion for it to have made the final cut.

LabRat

Congratulations Everyone.

Thanks to the authors for giving us so many wonderful stories .

Especially great to see all of those tough choices for best new author. It's amazing that years after a show has ended, we can still get several wonderful new authors to entertain us every year!

Coming in very late here, it's always a terrific feeling to know that people thought enough of anything I wrote to nominate it. I can see already that the competition is going to be fierce this year. I'm pleased that several of the ones I nominated made it onto the short list, too. It's going to be awfully hard to vote; I can say that for sure, but then, it always is.

Thanks to everyone who nominated my work. It's always a surprise to see my name on the list.

Nan

Good grief, this is going to be impossible! Congrats to all the nominees. As far as I'm concerned, *this*, being nominated, is the real prize. The voting process itself isn't half as important. But getting on this shortlist -- that's something of which you should all be proud. And I'm proud, too, to be part of such a wonderful fandom.

Hazel

Joining the party late?

Congratulations to all the nominees!!



Good luck to everyone.
AnnaBtG.

I just wanted to add a thanks to all those who nominated my stories. I'm honored to be counted with such a great group of authors and stories.

ML

coming in late because i've been busy all weekend and have pretty much been coming online just for quick email checks (and i'm behind on that, too...).

wow, what a thing to see when i did get here, though! i got nominated!!

thank you so much to everyone who thought enough of my stories to put them on their short lists!

writing the stories is fun, getting the comments is really cool, but this...

congratulations to everyone who made the list!

now, i've got some reading to do... <sigh> a pile of kerth-quality fic that i must somehow manage to force myself through. pity me.

Paul

Delurking for a bit...

Just want to congratulate the nominees, especially Nan. Nan, I read the postings on Zoom's board and feel that whatever was said by the person (which I didn't even read since it was erased) wasn't justified. Hope everyone will have fun at the award ceremony.

traveller.

back to lurking mode...

I'd like to congratulate everyone on their nominations. The nominated stories are very deserving, although surprisingly few of the stories I nominated showed up. I guess that proves that my tastes are different than most FoLCs .

Also, thank you to everyone who nominated my stories. I've had stories eligible for every Kerth awards since the beginning, and this is my first nomination. It breaks my streak! I think before this I was the author with the most stories on the archive who hadn't been nominated. Well, when you have 17 eligible stories, odds are at least one of them will be nominated . Thank you very much for breaking my streak. It really means a lot to me.

- Laura

I know I'm way behind the game here, but I wanted to crawl out of lurkerdom long enough to express my most sincere thanks. I'm honored to have been nominated and truly pleased that so many people liked my stories. Congratulations to all of the other nominees and thanks to KCom for all their work creating the ballot and compiling the nominations!

Annie

Wow. I have a LOT of reading to do since I plan on voting... I know that I have read most of these stories, but I am definitely going to have to re-read because too many of my favorites are competing against each other!
~Lauren

All the stories are great but some just stand out above the rest - I'm ready to vote: tomorrow the primaries, this weekend the Kerths.

As some / most of you know, I've been away for the last month and have had only very limited and sporadic internet access. Thus, I am coming to this thread very late indeed. My thanks for the nominations are no less heartfelt for that, though!

To all those people who nominated EMII, where- and whoever you are, thank you so very, very much! Last year was a difficult one for me, but you've made me feel as though something good has actually come of it!

Chris