Hi everyone!

Below is a list of stories eligible for 2011 Kerths. If there is a story on the list that was eligible last year please let me know. Also if you want to make a story eligible please let me know.

A big thank you to LabRat and the archive team for the information.

Tricia

STORY NAME AUTHOR K COUNT

A Revelation By Any Other Name Tank Wilson 9
A Tale of Two Marthas anonpip 22
After The Fall Lynn S M 46
All the Daytime and the Nighttime Artemis 186
Baby, It's Cold Outside HappyGirl 18
Backwards III: House of Lane Carol M 224
Bakery Redux, The Dandello 9
Bedtime Story, The Lynn S M 3
Best Laid Plans of Mice and Supermen, The anonpip 32
Big Secret, The Lynn S M 2
Birthday Surprise, The Lynn S M 6
Boy in Black, The anonpip 807
Case of the Flying Man, The Lynn S M 39
Charades Lynn S M 3
Claimed In The Congo: A Lois and Clark Alt-Adventure mozartmaid 86
Clark Gets Some Visitors Tank Wilson 14
Clark's Card Lynn S M 5
Clark's Lament Lynn S M 2
Cold and Blood EvelynC 1
Cold Shoulder, The Terry Leatherwood 68
Conundrum Lynn S 2
Courage mozartmaid 55
Desperate Times bakasi 4
Different Directions LaraMoon 33

Don't Leave Me Sarah A 3
Double Diaries Barb Beverly 30
Double Diaries 2: Never Ending Battle Barb Beverly 21
Dr. Friskin's Letter Lynn S M 9
E In Clark, The Richard Frantz Jnr. 3
Eye In The Sky Saori Tanaka 1
Fighting Dirty anonpip 13
Final Piece of the Puzzle, The Lynn S M 8
Finding The Way Up Lieta 3
First Fanfic, The Lynn S M 13
Flying Easy Bob Bartholomew 54
Flying Lessons Sue S 78
Friends Or Lovers Folc4evernaday 109
From The Outside Lynn S M 10
Full Partners Lynn S M 18
Game, The Alisha Knight 76
Games People Play Nan 197
Geek Humour Lynn S M 1
Get The Story! IolantheAlias 49
Gifts, The Lynn S M 11
GoldiLois and the Three Bears Lynn S M 4
Guess Who's Talking? gr8ShadesofElvis 3
Guilt Tank Wilson 28
Happy Thoughts amberlea 8
House Arrest Lynn S M 33
Hurricane Clark Lynn S M 1
If Looks Could Kill Lynn S M 4
Inspector Big Mouth anonpip 41
Just A Little Help From… Dandello 17
Just A Peek Lieta 4
Just An Ordinary Day Lynn S M 6
Kaboom Lynn S M 1
Keeper of Krypton, The mat528 17
Like Father, Like Daughter Bob Bartholomew 31
Lois Lane Meets Superman bobbart aka Bob Bartholomew 13
Lois's Card Lynn S M 5
Looking In Lynn S M 11
Lost In The Mists of Time Dandello 4
Lunch Break gr8ShadesofElvis 6
Lunkhead, No More ML Thompson 5
Martha Mommisms Lynn S M 2
Meeting Mister Jones Dandello 5
Meow-ch! gr8ShadesofElvis 9
My Inspiration Stopquitdont 267
My Secret Hero mozartmaid 14
My Wife, The Mother of Utopia anonpip 35
Myxunderstanding amberlea 4
Next Day, The: A Not So Merry Christmas Tank Wilson 23
Night Witness mozartmaid 48
No Cars Go Alisha Knight 4
Notorious Wedding: Sequel to Night Witness mozartmaid 108
Nowhere To Run ML Thompson 361
One Leg At A Time Lynn S M 5
One Way Down Lieta 2
Owls Over Metropolis 2: Frog Day Afternoon Marcus Rowland 2
Perceptions anonpip 7
Picnic Confessions Mary Potts aka Queen of the Capes 4
Planet! Terry Leatherwood 14
Press Conference, The Female Hawk 16
Pursuit of Pleasure, The Beth Summerson 11
Revelations or What Clark Should NOT Do Lynn S M 3
Rocks, Rings and Hammers ML Thompson 4
Rumplestiltskin Revisited Lynn S M 3

Shortest Fanfic Challenge Anthology Various Authors 5
Smallville Connection, The Dandello 34
Special Edition Lynn S M 3
Supercool Saori Tanaka 6
Superman's Laundry bakasi 38
Taking Down A God Dandello 5
Taking Down A God: The Rest of the Story Dandello 84
Ten Excuses Clark Should NOT Tell Lois Lynn S M 2
That One Great Love Terry Leatherwood 293
There Was Me, Then There Was You Lyla Katz 3
Three "Guess Who's Talking Challenge" Responses Lynn S M 3
Time To Find Lois Lane Barb Beverly 87

Time Traveller's Wife, The ML Thompson 772
To Catch A Thief Mary Potts aka Queen of the Capes 8
TOGOM for 2010 Tank Wilson 46
Too Soon For Love Ray Reynolds 290
Top Ten Lois and Clark-ified Sayings Lynn S M 2
Ubermann Dandello 19
Vanity anonpip 16
Wanna Neck? BJ 17
Wasted Revelations BJ 32
What Tangled Webs We Weave Kermtzu 21
When An Irresistible Force… Lynn S M 3
When Muses Go Bad Terry Leatherwood 8
When The Sky Falls Bob Bartholomew 642
Why? Bob Bartholomew aka bobbart 5
Wild-Goose Chase, The Michael 37
Wine and Circumstances mozartmaid 101
Written In The Stars Beth Summerson 369

New Authors – Kerths 2011

Barb Beverly
EvelynC
gr8ShadesofElvis
Lyla Katz
Lynn S M
Mat528
mozartmaid
Joan Powers
Saori Tanaka

I've asked the Committee to add ...

Treasure Chest 351K
The Gift of Words 20K
Aussie Rules 1750K


Time to Love 1 - Weekend in Smallville
Second Chance

... are not eligible because they were on the list for 2010.

Although Trusting Me, Trusting You 1:Junction is complete, I'm not going to add it to the 2011 list. I'll put all TMTY stories on the list for 2012.

Thanks,

Corrina.

The following stories had been made eligible for 2011 Kerths.

Suddenly I See – Joan Powers
Go for the Brass Ring – Joan Powers
The Man Under the Suit – HappyGirl
Bats! Version One - Classicalla
Bats! Version Two - Classicalla
Defender of the Helpless - mozartmaid
That Extra Hour Challenge - mozartmaid
The Long Road Home - Raconteur
Green-Eyed Mad Dog - QueenOfAces

Tricia

My story "Distance" is not eligible this year because I asked it to be included in the eligibility list last year.

Bob

SO excited to see info on Kerth Awards up!! I have a few questions, though... what do the numbers mean next to the eligible stories listed? Also, are only archived stories eligible? I have two super short stories that haven't been archived yet ( Defender of the Helpless and That Extra Hour Challenge ) that may be eligible...(What exactly are the rules for eligibility anyway?) Anyway, so excited!!!

The numbers next to the stories are the size counts, which are helpful for the size-limited categories. Stories don't need to be on the archive in order to be including in the eligible list. They only need to be completed by the end of 2010 and posted somewhere, such as these boards. The ones on the archive are usually automatically included, since it's easy to find them all.

Do you have sizes on these fics?

The Long Road Home was finished in 2010, but not archived (so I believe it is eligible). It is approximately one million kilobytes.

Defender of the Helpless is 2K
That Extra Hour is 7K

Also not archived of mine:

A Tempus Twisted Christmas 126K

Prisoners 109K

Yes, I admit it.... I'm obsessed...

I've put the 2011 Kerth Eligible fics into an Excel spreadsheet with categories of author, title, and size. Counting the additions by mozartmaid, Rac, and others in this thread, I have a total of 128 fics listed.

The spreadsheet is invaluable for searching for the fics in a different way. (For example, did you know that Lynn SM wrote 31 fics this year? And that there are 23 fics of over 100K in size?)

It's very helpful in making Kerth nominations.

Note: It's not organized by keyword or type of fic. You're on your own there.

If you're interested in it, PM me with your email address and I'll send it to you as an attachment.

No-no, not obsessed. Nothing beats a well-organized, color-coded, etc, Excel sheet. /nods emphatically/ Still have mine from last year lying around.

Michael

Io, it's good to know I'm not the only one who did that. I added a couple of columns to my spreadsheet: In one I put an 'X' to indicate that I have read the story, and another I use to notate for which, if any, category/ies I think the story good enough to consider for nomination.

I was surprised to realize how many stories I had written. But the funny thing is, they are all so short (even the longest one would still fall into the "short story" range), the total word count of all my writing would be less than any one of the longer stories posted. The story I am working on now is my most ambitious yet. It might actually make it up to mid-length range.

Joy,
Lynn

Glad to have the company in the obsessed/organized category. Mine is an Access database - I've been maintaining it for years...

Kathy

Wow... Glad I'm not alone.

Yes, we must include Rac's "The Long Road Home". I can't believe I read the whole thing or that someone wrote a story that long. Anyway, I just want to see on the list an entry reading:
Raconteur "The Long Road Home" 1,000,000!
I think that's longer than LabRat's "Masque".

Artemis

Ya know, for a show that went off the air what.... 13 years ago? 14? Having 100+ fics written in a year is pretty darn impressive. It just further illustrates what an amazing show it was and what a great fandom this is.

I *heart* you guys!

Am I allowed to suggest stories that I haven't written? I can think of a few stories that were completed in 2010, but are not listed here.

Tricia et al would have to say for sure, but back when I was on the committee, our rule was that only the author could request a non-archived story be made eligible. Authors may still want to do editing on a story that was posted to the boards during the writing process, and would not consider such a story finished. Thus only the author gets to say whether their story is "done".

But if you have a story in mind that isn't listed, write the author and ask them. If nothing else, you'll probably make their day just by suggesting it.

Kathy

Also, some authors will want to act strategically. Perhaps their story was finished in 2010, but the category it fits is overloaded and so they might hold it over till the following year in the hope that there are less candidates next time around.

There may be many reasons in fact why an author wouldn't want a story to be eligible in the year it was finished, but might want to keep it back and submit it later.

LabRat

Thanks for the info!

I just caught this error:
All the Daytime and All the Night Time Artemis 186
The title is really "All the Daytime and the Nighttime" It's a song titile. The Archive is correct.
Thanks
Artemis

Could someone please tell me the size, in kb, for the following stories?

Bats! Version One by Classicalla
Bats! Version Two by Classicalla
The Man Under The Suit by HappyGirl
Go For The Brass Ring by Joan Powers
Suddenly I See by Joan Powers

(Just my usual obsessiveness about filling up blank spots in my spreadsheet....)

Hi everyone!

Sorry for the delay in replying here. I have been away and only just returned home. Authors need to contact the Kerth committee or myself if they wish to make a story eligible.

The following stories have been added to the list:
The Long Road Home - Raconteur
Green-Eyed Mad Dog - QueenOfAces

Unfortunately, I can't help with the file sizes. The authors will have that information.

Tricia

Hi Tricia,

I don't have a KB count on The Man Under the Suit because it only exists in parts at the moment, but a very rough estimate is 1,000KB.

Happy

Tricia:
Thanks for fixing the title to my story, "All the Daytime and the Nighttime."
G'day
Artemis

Here's a silly question. The length of the story in kb. Does that correspond to my original microsoft word file or the simple text file that went to the archives? They're not the same number.

The Archive text file. The information is taken from my Archive spreadsheet for the year in question.

Of course, that wouldn't apply to the extra stories which authors ask to be made eligible as they haven't been sent to the Archive. So the kcount there would be the author's.

LabRat

Go For The Brass Ring by Joan Powers is 11kb

and Suddenly I See by Joan Powers is 13 kb.