The Fangreaders are proud to present an awards ceremony our fandom has never seen. The tuxes and dresses are being designed. The Royalty Blended Blood is being ordered. Fangbangers are queuing up to be on the selected donor list. All this and more are to come as we get ready to celebrate the announcement of the best fanfics in our fandom that have made us laugh, cry and swoon.

Since January 2011 the Fangreaders (http://fangreaders.blogspot.com/) have been chatting about and sharing their favourite SVM/TB fanfiction stories. What started with a few enthusiasts has grown into a community of over 200 fanfic readers and writers, stretching over several time-zones – and we just keep getting bigger and bigger! New members are signing up every week to take part in our online discussions in the Fangreaders chat room, the Fangreaders Chatroom Central blog site, Fang_Readers Community on LiveJournal, and the Caffe Trieste forum.

You may have heard of a previous Fangreader organised event – The Lemon Tart Awards. This event celebrated the sassy and sexy side of fanfiction. But this time we want to go all the way - Oscars Style! In celebration of 12 wonderful months of meeting new people and making new friends – the community is bringing you ‘The Fangreader Awards’. On January the 8th, Fangreaders submitted their nominations for their most loved fanfics in eleven different categories. Comedy, Romance, All Human, Angst, One-shots, series and more will be included in this event to celebrate excellence in writing and honour those who have captivated us with their plots, amused us with their banter and made our hearts flutter with excitement when they provide us with an update.

The Nominees have been announced, please see the Fangreaders Hall of Fame for a full list of the stories and authors.

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The public vote opened on Sunday 15th January 2012 and the ballot will close on 19th February 2012 11.59pm GMT. That leaves you plenty of time to catch up and read any of the stories nominated that you might have missed. Remember – you can only vote ONCE – and the goal of the Fangies is to award excellence in writing and not just be another popularity contest.

Calling the entire fandom!!! Vote here and now for your favourite SVM/TB fanfics: http://bit.ly/VoteFangies

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The winners of the Fangie Awards will then be announced live at an awards ceremony on

the Fangreaders Hall of Fame

and presented by our favourite SVM & TB characters.

25th of February 2012 at 9pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)

[5pm Eastern/2pm Pacific]

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Stay tuned for all the latest news and information about the upcoming awards.

You can also follow us on Twitter @FangreadersChat and @Fang_readersLJ

Here are the categories of the

Fangreaders Awards:

If you would like to have a downloadable version of the nominees and their story links, just click http://bit.ly/FangieLinks

(There will also be some special awards announced on the night of the awards ceremony on 25th February 2012 )

The Baby Jessica Award~ Best Fanfic for a New Author
This award is for a fanfic from a first time author who has posted their first story after January 2011

The Longshadow Award~ Best One-Shot Fanfic

The Newlin Award~ Best All Human Fanfic

Mr Cataliades Award~ Best Series Fanfic

The Ancient Pythoness Award~ Best Fanfic Published before 2010

The Lafayette Reynolds Award~ Best Alternate Universe Fanfic ( For the purpose for this award Alternate Universe A/U means any fic that takes the characters out of the "canonical" world of SVM or True Blood )

The Jason Stackhouse Award~ Best Comedy Fanfic

The Bill Compton Award~ Best Angst Fanfic

The Eric Northman Award~ Best Epic Fic
Fic must be at least 25 Chapters AND 200,000 words

The Sookie Stackhouse Award~ Best Romantic Fic

The Adele Stackhouse Award for Reader's Choice~ Your choice for any fanfic that deserves recognition for excellence regardless of genre.

Love our promo fics for the Fangreaders Awards?

(See the Favourite Stories below)

We are accepting promo fics to go with all our posts to the run up of the Awards Ceremony.
If you are inspired to write one, here is the prompt:
You can use any characters from SVM or True Blood and tell about their preparations for the Fangreaders Awards Ceremony.

Entries being taken now. Can be a one~shot at any length or a multi-chapter.If accepted, a copy with your link will be included in our blog posts on the Fangreaders Hall of Fame during the whole run up to the Awards Ceremony which is on 25th February 2012. Last entries accepted on the 19th of February.Entries will be posted first come first served basis so get them in as soon as possible.We are asking that the entries not be sexually explicit and not contain any themes that may be disturbing to the majority of our fandom. These promo fics should be written to help everyone get excited about the Fangreaders Awards.If you would like to submit one, or have any questions, please email: fangies2012@gmail.com

Get all your information From theFangreaders Hall of Fame site : http: // fangreaders -hall-of-fame (dot) blogspot( dot) com/

What's a Fangreader?

A Fangreader is a member of a group of fanfic authors and readers that get together in a private chat room on Chatzy.com. We meet daily to chat fanfics or meet authors of those fanfics. We also have Fangtivities that are fun activities with a SVM/TrueBlood flavour.

Being a Fangreader is a great way to get to know fellow SVM/TB Fanfic addicts like yourself.

Wanna Be a Fangreader? http://bit.ly/Fangreaders
Since most of the stories that we chat about are a M rating, we must require that all our members be of at least 18 years of age.

Our Fangreader Award Panelists:

This is a group sponsored event, but our panelists are volunteers from our members who have each contributed to the overall running of the Fangies from the nomination process to the ceremony to announce the winners.

These contributions include: ensuring the validity of the nominations and voting ballots; ideas and advice ; making banners and graphics ; writing blurbs to be sent out to the fandom ; correspondence to the nominees ; promoting the Awards across the fandom ; and much more.

Abbey245 , AlphaEN, Blakes Boogie, CrisiTM, Fairy_Blood, FanOtheFang, Jan_of_Arc, Jaxg, JecaNS, LadyHlin, Modiggy, Vic_Vega66, Vilannh, XiaCheyenne