fic_corner | Nominations are open

Nominations for The Exchange at Fic Corner are open on Ao3. You can nominate up to four fandoms and up to five characters. Nominations will close on July 21^st at approximately 10pm EDT.

To make this easier on your mod, remember that book titles are canonized in AO3 as Title - Author or in the case of multiple authors, Title - Various Authors. If you're nominating a book or book series that is also a tv show/cartoon/board game/movie/podcast/etc., I WILL assume you mean the book version, but there will be much tearing of hair in the process, so the more specific you can be, the happier I will be.

What constitutes an eligible fandom?
The guidelines for an eligible kids' or YA book fandom

A fandom that was published in book format by a traditional publisher (small press/eBook only is okay, self-published is not unless it was at some point also published traditionally)

A fandom that was marketed for children's or teens at some point. Books that have had editions marketed for both adults and teens (Ender's Game, for example) are eligible as are books that were published for adults in one country and for teens (or children) in another.

Any level is eligible, from picture books to edgy teen novels.

Graphic novels/manga/bande dessinée/manhwa, etc. are all eligible as long as they fit the other criteria. Monthly comic issues that have not been collected in book form are not.

Fandoms do not have to be currently in print to be eligible.

Fandoms may be in any language and do not have to have a published English translation. However, this exchange will be run in English, so the less accessible your fandom is, the less likely you will find a match.

Non-fiction fandoms may be accepted on a case by case basis at the discretion of the moderator.

RPF is not allowed except in the context of a book fandom in which real people are characters, such as the multitude of novels about 16th century girls who dress as boys and run off to act in Shakespeare's plays.

Tie-in novels/series are eligible if they are telling new and distinct stories from the source. Direct novelisations of movies or television are not eligible.

Size of fandom is not a criteria. Harry Potter and Twilight are eligible, as are tiny fandoms that don't exist on AO3 yet.

A few questions about eligibility that came up in the comments of previous posts

Sub-series are allowed, so you could nominate the Trickster series instead of Tortall and that would be accepted. However, single book nominations will be discarded in favor of series/sub-series, going by the smallest possible series (ie, Little Men would be accepted as the Little Women series), for ease of matching. If you only want the adventures of Nat, Dan and Bess, you'll have the option of limiting by character in your requests and offers.

Kids'/Teen spin-off series of adult series will be allowed as long as you nominate the eligible series. The adult series will be rejected.

GNs aimed at kids are allowed, as are GNs clearly published for teens. Everything else will be on a case by case basis, but mainstream superheroes will only be eligible in a version specifically published for kids/teens as mainstream comics do not have a clear dividing line. This does not affect manga, as age ranges are usually marked on the English translations.

If a book or graphic novel will be published by the end of September, it is eligible. This includes comics that have yet to be collected into a graphic novel and those among you who have access to prepublication copies of books. Do remember that the easier it is to get one's hands on canon for review, the more likely people will offer/request it.

Nominations/requests/offers do not have to be things YOU personally read at the appropriate age. As long as they are aimed at the target age range, they are eligible.

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From:

minutia_r

I'm most interested in Einstein, Hollywood, Junkyard, and Pencil.

Does anyone else know these books at all, let alone is planning on nominating them?

From:

minutia_r

Mr. Fox and Mr. Knox, naturally. If anyone else is nominating I won't bother (but I will be grateful).

From:

minutia_r

I'm thinking Hayley, Troy, Haley's Granddad (is using his name a spoiler? how does one tag on AO3?)

From:

minutia_r

Incidentally, is it going to be possible to nominate/request these as one fandom? 'Cause I want to request both Bianca Di Angelo and Hazel Levesque, and Bianca only appeared in the first series and Hazel only appears in the second. Also I'm thinking of nominating Frank Zhang and Nico Di Angelo.

From:

minutia_r

I'm not entirely sure who to nominate for this--Erin, Roshka, Talb, some of the Lons? Honestly if anyone else is planning to nominate I will be happy with whatever characters you choose and spend my nominations on something else because I'm pretty interested in everybody.

From:

aerielpembroke

I've nominated Roshka, Erin, Aeriel, Irrylath and Sabr, just so you know!

From:

minutia_r

Thank you! :)

From:

minutia_r

Zach, Hugh, and Darryl. And Cap, I guess.

And, that's all my fandoms! Mostly I'm wondering if anyone else is planning on nominating any of them; otherwise I'll have to make some decisions about which to drop.

From:

osprey_archer

Someone else already nominated five characters for this, hooray! They put in Claudia, Jessie, Mallory, Kristy, and Mary Ann.

I'm going to add Ashley Wyeth and probably also Dawn and Stacey. Anyone else I should add in the last two slots?

From:

osprey_archer

I'm nominating Felicity Merriman, Elizabeth Cole, and Ben Davidson. Any requests for the last two openings?

From:

aerielpembroke

Annabelle Cole and Nan Merriman, perhaps?

From:

osprey_archer

Sure thing!

From:

osprey_archer

Is anyone else planning to nominate this? I'm hoping someone is, so I can use my fourth nomination for something else.

If not, I was thinking of nominating Eugenides, Attolia, Eddis, and Costis. Maybe Sophos for the last slot.

From:

Nominated:
Elenor
Thomas
Etienne

Let me know if you want anyone else nominated.

Edited Date: 2013-07-12 09:14 pm (UTC)

From:

Nominated:
Ida Mae Jones
Patsy Kake
Lily Lowenstein

Let me know if you want anyone else nominated.

Edited Date: 2013-07-12 09:14 pm (UTC)

From:

Nominated:
Sadie Rose (her last name is a spoiler, so I left it off)
Trinity Baird
Owen
Victor

This is kind of embarrassing, but I can't remember Owen and Victor's surnames. HELP.

From:

Nominated:
Rusty Dickinson
Peggy Dickinson
Ivy Woods

Let me know if you want anyone else nominated.

Edited Date: 2013-07-12 09:14 pm (UTC)

From:

rthstewart

So, going on on a limb here. Anyone ever heard of the Mr. Putter and Tabby beginner's books by Cynthia Rylant? For instance, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8mopf0Q6R4 (In particular, Mrs. Teaberry and her good dog, Zeke?) Or Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathman? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9d08SUbzSA

From:

evil_plotbunny

Children's librarian here. ♥

From:

rthstewart

Children's librarian here.
Mother of early emergent reader here. I think Mr. Putter and Mrs. Teaberry have a lot to say about growing old but not stale. To the point, I was wondering if anyone else knew them and would be interested. Also, errr, Kevin Henkes because how can people not know the glories of Lily and her Purple Plastic Purse. http://www.harpercollins.com/browseinside/index.aspx?isbn13=9780688128975

From:

crantz

I nominated:

Cat Chant
Christopher Chant
Julia Chant
Marianne Pinhoe
Janet Chant

From:

pleonasm

I'll also be nominating Gwendolen from this series, because she's my worst favorite, but that leaves me with 4 slots to fill. Anyone want someone else in particular?

From:

crantz

Milli, Conrad, Roger, Tonino? Sent from my BlackBerry

From:

pleonasm

Sure thing! It's a good set.

From:

crantz

Bess Marvin
George Fayne
Hannah Gruen
Ned Nickerson
Carson Drew

(sidenote: does the format of the comments page make it hard to read anyone's usernames to anyone else? For some reason it keeps moving the words overtop of the icons for me)

Edited Date: 2013-07-12 11:42 pm (UTC)

From:

pedanther

(I am also having that problem with the page format.)

From:

evil_plotbunny

I'll see what I can do about that tonight.

From:

crantz

Cool, thank you. And thank you for running this!

From:

crantz

Arthur Denison
Will Denison
Bix (Dinotopia)
Sylvia Romano
Oriana Nascava

(for some reason the Denisons are already in the site, but under the wrong last name. Two Ns instead of one.)

From:

osprey_archer

DINOTOPIA FIC. I hope this happens.

From:

crantz

me toooo. The books are so beautiful and lovely.

I'm not sure I can really count the small novels that were put out as a kids series because I didn't read many of them and they didn't have purty pictures.

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crantz

From:

morbane

Good choices! Yay.

From:

chomiji

't wouldn't hurt to put the nominations closing date somewhere prominent, both here (in the original post here and on LJ, above the cut) and on the nominations page itself, if possible.

From:

evil_plotbunny

Knew I'd forgot something.

From:

duckwhatduck

God this is hard. (I really hope this is going to end up running lots more times so I can nominate more things)

From:

with-rainfall.livejournal.com

Saraiyu Balitang
Chenaol
Alianne Crow/Cooper/of Pirate's Swoop
Dovasary Balitang
Vitorcine Townsend

From:

with-rainfall.livejournal.com

Zeel of the Travellers
Rowan of Rin
Allun the Baker
Sheba the Wise-Woman

Anyone want to nab the final slot?

From:

with-rainfall.livejournal.com

NOTE: I'm nomming this rather than the new and updated edition, A Little Wanting Song, because of my... intense dissatisfaction with the latter.

Charlie Duskin
Rose Butler
Dave Robbie

Others?

From:

with-rainfall.livejournal.com

Marina Jamison
Lisa Morris
Cathy Preshill

Others?

From:

graycardinal

I've included the following characters in my nomination:

ADAM (A.I. Gang)
Hap Swenson
Rachel Phillips
Trip Davis
Wendy Wendell

If anyone else would like to include other characters, feel free....

From:

primeideal

I plan to nominate:

Mariel Gullwhacker (Mariel of Redwall/The Bellmaker)
Dandin (ditto. is there a better long name for him?)
Russano the Wise (The Long Patrol, Taggerung)
Buckler Kordyne (The Sable Quean)

Does someone want me to add a fifth? Or are there characters I should sub out, if someone would prefer more popular ones?

From:

pleonasm

I am planning to nominate this awesome anthology about GBLT teens, primarily for sake of the title story. This means I have two character slots left to add characters from the other stories.

Nominating:
Butch Carrigan (Am I Blue?)
Melvin (Am I Blue?)
Narrator (Am I Blue?)

Anyone else from the other stories?