Hi Everyone

Here is a list of eligible stories for 2015 Kerths. If you have a story posted during 2014 but not on the archive, please let me know if you wish to make it eligible.

Tricia

Story Author K Count
A Few Simple Sugars -Shayne 3
A Hair-Razing Experience - Lynn S M 7
A Pirate Affair -Katherine Kent 293
A Recipe For Trouble - Ultra Lucille 8
A Year Without -Virginia R 27
An Unearthly Origin -Mary Potts aka Queen of the Capes 2
An Unexpected Visitor - Morgana 101
Anything For You - Lynn S M 13
Autographs - Ultra Lucille 5
Autumn In Paris - Morgana 27
Bet, The -Lois Lane Fan 7
Blind Date - Virginia R 28
A Brief Story - Lynn S M 3
Burning Down The House - Virginia R 5
Clark and Lois: When Worlds and Universes Collide:
Matchmaker Chronicles Volume 8 - Ken J 638
Clark's Heart - Deadly Chakram 240
Deserving To Know - bakasi 35
Deserving To Love - bakasi 21
Doodles -Katherine Kent 52
Email From Jimmy - Shallowford 3
Ex-Girlfriends- Lois Lane Fan 3
Framed - Mouserocks 9
Green Green Glow of Home: Matchmaker Style -Ken J 231
Her Wedding Day -Michael 6
Homecoming - ShayneT 298
In Bed With The Devil -Mary Potts 4
In The Light Of The Morning - Katherine Kent 8
In The Still of the Night - Katherine Kent 8
In Time, Somewhere - ShayneT 224
Last Night - Mary Potts aka Queen of the Capes 7
Like A Brother -Mary Potts aka Queen of the Capes 6
Little Less Secret, A - Lady Loisette 5
Lois and Clark Do 100 Crimes - Various 16
Enduring Power - Lady Loisette 51
Man or Monster? - Anti-Kryptonite 344
MASH Debaucle, The - Shallowford 3
Memo From The Daily Planet Janitorial Staff - ShayneT 3
Movie Night -Katherine Kent 12
No Place Like Home - Lynn S M 1
Not A Day At The Beach- Mrs Msxyplik 9
Reboot- Mouserocks 12
Resale Value- Janet Owens 29
Shortest Distance, The - Lynn S M 2
Soul Mates - Lynn S M 3
Strangers to this World -Anti-Kryptonite 188
Strike (Clark's POV) -Deadly Chakram 34
Strike (Lois' POV) - Deadly Chakram 44
Superman 2012 - ShayneT 7
Tales of Dystopia: Civil Disobedience -Mouserocks 60
Talk, Kryptonian Style, The - Lynn S M 4
Technology Is Killing Us -Ultra Lucille 7
The 40th Noel- Ultra Lucille 12
Trump Card, The - Nell Lime 8
Unfaithful -Mary Potts aka Queen of the Capes 4
Vagrant -ShayneT 99
Vision of Destiny - Katherine Kent 27
Wedding Pact, The - Katherine Kent 243
Wedding, The- Female Hawk 199
What A Gentleman Desires - Virginia R 68
Why The Daily Planet's Circulation Is Down -Lynn S M 2
Winter Wonderland- KathyB 89
World of Cuisine - Mouserocks 5
X Marks The Spot - Queen of the Capes 2
Xerxes, the Great - Susan Young 6

Added Stories

Scribbles - KatherineKent 13
In the Glow of the Firelight - KatherineKent
In the Arm of an Angel - KatherineKent
My Best Friend's Wish – KatherineKent
Pheromone My Lovely – Matchmaker Style KenJ 266
Honeymoon In Metropolis – Matchmaker Style KenJ 210
All Shook Up – Matchmaker Style KenJ 264
Witness- Matchmaker Style KenJ 196
Illusions of Grandeur – Matchmaker Style KenJ 189
Hattie and Mr. ‘X’ – Matchmaker Chronicles Volume 1P KenJ 272
Halloween in Metropolis – Matchmaker Chronicles Volume 1 CD KenJ 69
Thanksgiving in Smallville – Matchmaker Chronicles Volume 1 CE KenJ 67
A Brief History of the Bureaus – Annie B
Fictitious Persons - ClassicalGal- https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10912673/1/Fictitious-Persons
Unusual Talents - Mouserocks
Now or Never - Sue S

Best New Author

Lady Loisette
Mrs Msxyplik
Nell Lime
ClassicalGal

Tricia

Hi Tricia:

Thank you again for all your hard work. All my stories for 2014 are there. Though, I've been credited for one that I didn't write: I'm afraid that one belongs to someone else... and that someone else is Female Hawk.

I do have the same problem as always. My name is misspelled again. Virginia, like the state... both of them.

Thanks for all the hard work! My one and only story for the year is on the list. Here's hoping I get more than one accomplished in 2015!

Wow, a lot on my list. Have I really written that many this year? I always have the impression that I'm not writing enough and I'm wasting to much time reading fics instead.

It does need adjusting, though.

Waiting in Line and Under the Spotlight were eligible last year but only uploaded once the year had past. Doodles has a sequel called Scribbles which was uploaded to the archive so not sure why it's missing. Three more stories are posted to the boards but only at GE stage for the archive.

So take off Waiting in Line and Under the Spotlight

Add

Scribbles - KatherineKent 13
In the Glow of the Firelight - KatherineKent
In the Arm of an Angel - KatherineKent
My Best Friend's Wish - KatherineKent

Also, a really tiny thing - it doesn't matter really, but there is no space between Katherine and Kent.

Oh, and The Wedding Pact isn't 101kb. A corrupted version was uploaded to start with and half the story was missing. The complete number is 243kb. This is quite important as it puts the story in a different category.

I have 6 or 7 stories that were left off of the list. They have been sent off for GE, but haven't made it to the archive as yet.

I will add the titles when I'm not using my phone.


Okay, I’m back. I was wrong. The actual count is 8.

Here’s the list: (Since none of these is in the archive as yet, these are TOCs)

Pheromone My Lovely – Matchmaker Style KenJ 266
Honeymoon In Metropolis – Matchmaker Style KenJ 210
All Shook Up – Matchmaker Style KenJ 264
Witness- Matchmaker Style KenJ 196
Illusions of Grandeur – Matchmaker Style KenJ 189
Hattie and Mr. ‘X’ – Matchmaker Chronicles Volume 1P KenJ 272
Halloween in Metropolis – Matchmaker Chronicles Volume 1 CD KenJ 69
Thanksgivint in Smallville – Matchmaker Chronicles Volume 1 CE KenJ 67

Also, I'd like to correct a title. Volume 8 of the Matchmaker set is properly titled 'Clark and Lois - When Worlds and Universes Collide'

I submitted my story 'A Brief History of the Bureaus' to the Archives in late December. Is it eligible?

I have made all the changes. Let me know if I have missed any.

Tricia

Isn't this one: MASH or M*A*S*H?

Ugh. Been without internet for a week, and am currently working off limited access until the fifth. Boo to you, Suddenlink. So that's fun.

The only thing I can think to add to the list is "Unusual Talents" which should be on it's way to the archives. ( message boards link ) I'll have to double check, but I think that's it.

Thanks for all your hard work!

How about a K count for:
In the Glow of the Firelight - Katherine Kent
In the Arm of an Angel - Katherine Kent
My Best Friend's Wish – Katherine Kent
A Brief History of the Bureaus – Annie B
Fictitious Persons - ClassicalGal- https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10912673/1/Fictitious-Persons

Many thanks for all your hard work, both authors and Kerth committee.

Artemis

Here's the link to last year's eligible stories: 2014. I just reviewed the two lists and the only name I saw pop up twice was "Miracle by Deadly Chakram"; although for some reason the K count was slightly different (off by one K). I'm assuming that these are the same story.

If anyone would like me to email them the current list for 2015 in Word 2007(as of this posting), including the "added stories"* put into the full list alphabetically, please let me know by PM.

* I haven't added the K-count for stories in the "added" list, though, because I don't have that data.

Hi Tricia,

Thanks for compiling and sharing this list. I have one extremely trivial correction to suggest: My story listed as "Brief Story" should actually be "A Brief Story". This is a minor enough correction that it can wait until you are editing the list for something more major.

Joy,
Lynn

Oops! Just realized that Miracle is on the list. Sadly, that's not eligible, as it was up for the 2014 Kerth Awards. Clark's Heart and the two Strike stories should be the only ones listed for me.

K and I have the rough k - counts for her stories. I'll post them later.

Given that asterisks can cause trouble with searches I'm not concerned whether it is "MASH" or "M*A*S*H"--whichever works on the archive. It should at least be all caps.

My dictionary has "debacle" rather than "debaucle". I don't know if this is a British versus American english issue or a misspelling.

Fictitious Persons - ClassicalGal- https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10912673/1/Fictitious-Persons

That story was here on the boards under debbieG as author. Do we have a word count?

Rev: According to fanfic site, the word count is 148,608.

Thanks
Artemis

Here re the rough k-counts for KK's stories:

In the Glow of the Firelight 20
In the Arms of an Angel 19
My Best Friend's Wish 43

Actually, looking at my word documents, the first two 'In the' series came to 20kb in Word but only come out at 8kb once on the archive, so I'd suspect the same will happen for the other two.

My Best Friend's Wish is 30kb in the Word document sent on to archive. Compare that with Movie Night - which is 23kb on my coputer and 12kb once on the archive.

I'd go more with ...

In the Glow of the Firelight 8
In the Arms of an Angel 8
My Best Friend's Wish 24

I'm not quite sure where that K-count number on the Archives comes from but I know it's not a Kb count from WORD. I believe Michael once said that it's Kb count from a plain text version of story. In WORD 2007, Lois & Clark Do 100 Crimes was 29Kb, but when I translated the file to plain text it went down to 16Kb (which it's listed on the list). Hope that helps.

Yes, it's very likely I said that once

You can also get Word to give you the character count by clicking on the word count located in the status bar at the bottom left. Character Count (incl. spaces) is the number you're looking for. It's possible that this also adds the number of characters from the comments, plus, line breaks in plain text file get counted as two characters. But it's a close approximation that should hold up except for edge cases when you're right on the brink between two sizes.

Michael

I'll save them off as plain text tomorrow. I'll do the same for my stories. Those are word document counts I provided. Most of them could drop a category as a result.

I think I squeaked one in under the wire for last year. It hasn't been sent to the archive yet, but should be in the very near future. Can we add "Now or Never" to the list? In plain .txt format it comes to 43K.

Thanks!

Thanks to everyone here for their input and thanks to Groobie for supplying me with links to ALL fanfics. I will be updating the website this weekend.

Make sure you take a look around because the kerth site was a part of the major over haul of the web sites I run.

www.kerthawards.com

The Kerth site has been updated.

Okay, finally got this done.

PML - Matchmaker Style clock in at - 190 K
HiM - Matchmaker Style clock in at - 139 K
ASU - Matchmaker Style clock in at - 181 K
Witness - Matchmaker Style clock in at - 132 K
Illusions of Grandeur - Matchmaker Style clock in at - 122 K

Hattie and Mr. 'X' Matchmaker Chronicles Volume 1P clocks in at 213 K

Ken, we have the fic size already posted on the Kerth site so please check there to make sure they match.

Those were the k counts for Word docs. These are the k counts for .txt documents which is what you are going by.

This moves a few of my stories to the mid-length category.

Sorry for the confusion.

I just checked a couple more of my stories:

Halloween in Metropolis - Matchmaker Chronicles Vol 1 CD 29 K
Thanksgiving in Smallville - Matchmaker Chronicles Vol 1 CE 28 K

These are txt file k counts and both stories move to the Short Story category.

bump... Nominations close on March 8th, get them in earlier than that to have your favorite stories and writers recognized.... bump