OMG! OMG!!

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I just got (several!) emails from Caro about my LMFA noms... I'm only allowed ten in total - what am I going to go for? Honestly, I'm genuinely looking for advice - I don't know where to start! Holy shit; this is... thoroughly lovely, but... gosh! ::blush::

Gen:
Chasing Rainbows is up for Angst, AU, Sentinel & Guide, Original Character, Hurt/Comfort and Novel - I have to cut these down to 3 - any advice?

The Sentinel Affair is up for Humour (The Sentinel Affair!!! OMG, it's been up for over 2 years and only ever had one bit of feedback! What is going on?! ::dances happy dance::)

Wind Whispering is nommed for AU, Canon and novel in the Gen
But also for Canon character and pre-slash in the slash categories Urm...? I guess this is what happens when you cheekily post what's basically a gen story to 852 and call it 'pre-slash' heh heh! - Well it always was pre-slash in my head.::whistle::

Slash:
A Child of God (Oh bless its cotton socks! Because I haven't had much fb at all on this and was beginning to think it must suck big hairy ones) is up for Episode Related, Canon, Established Relationship and Novel - so again, I have to pick 3. (help? plz?)

Alpha and Omega gets an embarrassement of noms too, but because it's co-authored I get to keep it in addition to my ten total noms - it's still got to be cut to 3 categories, though.
It's up for Angst, AU, First Time, Novel and Collaboration.

I'm also up for New Gen Author (wasn't I up for that last year? ::Giggle:: Not that I'm complaining or anything!)
Oustanding Gen Author
New Slash Author

And I'm all like - whoa! Man! LOL! ::giggle::
But I have to get all this down to 10 noms in total - any advice from those more experienced than me would be massively appreciated cause I don't even know where to start!

I'm all discombobulated!  I'm... stunned! Utterly, totally and completely! Really! (Goes off to lie down in a dark room with a cool, lavender flannel over my fevered brow).

To everyone who nommed me, thank you, all SO much!

Comments

[suemc.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, I really don't know why this didn't happen last year. Bev's advice lools good, except I have a question. If your story is nominated this year but does not win, can it be put up next year, under the same category or under a different one? What I'm thinking is that if it can't, maybe it would be better to drop a story to put the others in more categories. But if I am confusing things more just ignore me.

As to which one to only have one nomination in, go for the one you were least comfortable with, which I think was 'The Sentinel Affair', but maybe I'm wrong.

Anyway, congratulations again, you deserve it, maybe this will trigger a turning point in your own books as well

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

To answer your q.'s - as far as I'm aware, only category winners can't be nominated again. Sentinel Affair only got one nom. so - I guess that's in by default. (o:

I shall think hard about it tonight and make some decisions. I'm a bit busy with work at the moment and I wasted the morning on squee (heh heh).

Thanks for your congrats, hon; much appreciated. As for whether it'll rub off on my attempts to get the other stuff published ::shrug:: - who can say? Though I'm coming up to a Jupiter return in November so maybe the good luck is starting early? (o: Anyway, back to the grind...