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02/02/2010 - Voting is now open. Click here to vote.
02/02/2010 - We've decided to open voting early. Voting will open on February 3 at 7PM Eastern, 4PM Pacific.
02/01/2010 - The FAQ has been updated. All open correspondence has been answered. If you submitted a question to us and we somehow missed replying to you, please re-submit. Voting should be open by Thursday.
01/28/2010 - We hope to open voting sometime next week. It will extend through the month of February. Please note that one of the Bellie categories, Story that Haunts Your Dreams, has been cut. It was cut because there is a two category cap per author in the Bellie Awards, and the top contenders were all nominated in other categories. Without further ado, the nominees follow:
The 2010 Eddie Award Nominees
Short Fiction- A Little Crazy, by LolaShoes & tby789
- Becoming Jane, by LoreliD
- Copper Lily, by S.meadows
- Glaciers, by Hmonster4
- La Petite Mort, by Dyedinwool
- Seduction, by Blondie AKA Robin
- The Baker's Magic Buns, by Ciaobella27
- The Queen of Hearts, by Stella luna sky
- Two Hundred Years of Solitude, by Philadelphic
- All the Places that Matter, by Willow
- Earthquake!, by Thallium81
- I Can Feel Our Hearts Beating as One, by kathy-rindhoops
- Masque of the Red Death, by Jeesiechreesie
- Rough Seas, by MySlashyFriend
- Toye, by BrattyVamp
- Carpe Noctem & Fiat Lux, by Queenofgrey
- Dark Side of the Moon, by Blondie AKA Robin
- Forget Her, by fatallyobsessed
- If Love Could Light a Candle, by Pastiche Pen
- In My Power, by Emilie Fauve
- Bella Swan: Kidnapper, by Kambria Rain
- Midnight Desire, by Twilightzoner
- Mr. Horrible, by Algonquinrt
- Tropic of Virgo, by In.a.blue.bathrobe
The 2010 Winter Bellie Award Nominees
Emmett You Want as Your Brother- Deconstructing Dracula, by Hmonster4
- Elemental, by TallulahBelle
- Eye Contact, by Silver sniper of night
- Legacy, by AutumnDreamer
- Breathe Again, by Ysar
- Coming Full Circle, by Toooldforthis
- In Pursuit of Normalcy, by Kariann1222
- Well, This Sucks: Life According to Seth, by Krum Cake
- Clipped Wings and Inked Armor, by Hunterhunting
- Emancipation Proclamation,by Kharizzmatik
- The Training, by Tara sue me
- Bonne Foi, by Amethyst Jackson
- Creature of Habit, by EZRocksAngel
- Elemental, by TallulahBelle
- The Fallout, by OCDindeed
- No Longer Alone, by EliseShaw
- A Murmur of Fire in the Vein, by ElleCC
- Dreaming of Butterflies, by Stretch
- Like Night and Day, EllaB
- Tie Me Down to this World, Struck Upon A Star
- Edward Wallbanger, by Feathersmmmm
- How My Life Was Ruined in 14 Days, by Moon.witche
- The Naked Guy Upstairs, by Angrybadgergirl
- The Vampire in the Basement, by Michellephants
- Clipped Wings and Inked Armor, by Hunterhunting
- The Submissive, by Tara sue me
- Resident Geek, by cdunbar
- Wide Awake, by Angstgoddess003
- Dark Side of the Moon, by Blondie AKA Robin
- Ithaca is Gorges, by Giselle-lx
- No Longer Alone, by EliseShaw
- A Rough Start, by Itzmegan72
- Hydraulic Level 5, by Gondolier1
- The Blessing and the Curse, by The black arrow
- The University of Edward Masen, by Sebastien Robichaud
- Emancipation Proclamation, by Kharizzmatik
- Hydraulic Level 5, by Gondolier1
- The University of Edward Masen, by Sebastien Robichaud
- Wide Awake, by Angstgoddess003
01/28/2010 - The nominees will post tonight at 7PM Eastern, 4PM Pacific.
01/22/2010 - We're close to having the nominees set for both the Eddies and Bellies. We expect to announce the official list sometimes mid/late next week. Details to follow.
01/04/2010 - Due to the tremendous number of quality nominations received, we are still in the process of selecting the nominees for the Eddies ballot. Nominees for both the Eddie and the Bellie Awards will be announced closer to the end of the month. We expect voting to open in early February.
12/10/2009 - Nominations are now closed. If you haven't yet clicked the link in your confirmation email to confirm your nominations, please do so, as we are already tallying nominations. Validating for the Eddie Awards is ongoing, and we will announce the nominees and commence voting in early January. Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit nominations!
12/9/2009 - Nominations will close TOMORROW, December 10, at 9:00PM Eastern time.
12/4/2009 - The email issues seem to be resolved. Additionally, anyone who has not yet confirmed their nominations had their confirmation resent.
12/3/2009 - We have posted a FAQ that sums up answers to some of the questions we have been receiving. Also, we continue to work on resolving the email issue. In the meantime, continue to contact us if you need the link to modify your nominations.
12/2/2009 - Some email servers are not delivering the confirmation email. If you don't receive a confirmation and you wish to change your nomination, send us an email and we'll send you the link.
12/1/2009 - Nominations are open. Click here to nominate.
11/30/2009 - Nominations open TOMORROW AT 9PM EASTERN. Updated rules for nominating are still being vetted and will go up sometime tomorrow. Also, the nominees from the previous session have not disappeared. They will be archived. Without further ado:
The Eddies Winter 2010 Categories
- Short Fiction: Defined for the purpose of this competition as stories shorter than 12,000 words.
- Mid-length fiction: Defined for the purpose of this competition as stories longer than 12,000 words, but shorter than 50,000.
- Novel (AU/Canon): Defined for the purpose of this competition as Alternate Universe or Canon stories longer than 50,000 words, but shorter than 180,000.
- Novel (AH): Defined for the purpose of this competition as All Human stories (no vampires) longer than 50,000 words, but shorter than 180,000.
The Bellies Winter 2010 Categories
- Emmett You Want as Your Brother: This describes a fic with the best characterization of Emmett; an irritable grizzly so great that you’d want him to be the brother you call to beat up a boy who’s just broken your heart, or to play some old school Nintendo with when you’re sick, or to surprise you by having driven all the way from another state to get you drunk on your 21st birthday. Or something. Just an Emmett who’d make a good brother, okay?
- Wolfpack Award: This describes any fic whose main story is about one of the members of the Quileute tribe.
- Story That Haunts Your Dreams: This describes a fic that has that certain something- whether it be so good you can’t stop thinking about it, even in your sleep- or it just has… something… and you overanalyze it, over think it, and possibly consider PM’ing the author to please, please update or write a sequel or just explain how they managed to write something so damned good. At any rate, this fic has something that you can’t stop thinking about.
- Best Fansite: This is an award for the best Twilight-related, non-Eddies/Bellies website out there on the interwebs. Can be a blog, an independent website, or even a section of a larger website. Please provide a direct copy of the url (that’s the http://www.websitehere.com/bunchoflettersandnumbersifapplicable part).
- Most Consistently Updated: This describes a story that you think “Really? Didn’t this just update? OMG WHO CARES BRB READING”.
- AU Fic You'd Write a Fic for: This describes an alternate universe fic that is so good, you’d consider writing a fanfiction of it. Like, whoa. Trippy. Canon is not included in this because that’s what fanfiction is, technically. AU can be either vamp or human.
- Best "Edward Who?" Fic: This describes a fic where the OTP (One True Pairing, for those of you who hate acronyms) is not Bella & Edward. The fic creates a couple so tasty that you completely forget about that ~dazzling, bronze-haired God. Let’s be clear, here- in this fic, Bella does not end up with Edward, but he can be present in the story.
- Fic You'd Click on for the Title Alone: This describes a fic with a really great title. Doesn’t even matter if you like the story- haven’t you ever clicked just because the title was that good? We have.
- Best Trendsetting Fic: This describes a fic that did it first- whatever “it” was. You know what we mean- the fic that everyone says “Well, that was a great story, but it basically rips off __________.” We want the ___________ story.
- Best Missing Moment (Canon Award): This describes a fic that is CANON. Please- canon is a story that you could insert into the Twilight universe and everything that we know to be true from the books would remain unchanged. Best Missing Moment would be any fic that takes place either Pre-Twilight or during Twilight, New Moon (the books, please), Eclipse, or Breaking Dawn. Can be any point-of-view as long as it was never a scene written by the original author.
- Story That Makes You Wanna Throw Your Monitor: This describes a fic that you read and begin to rage. Doesn’t have to be in the bad way, either. Perhaps the characters continue to make decisions with their head up their butt; perhaps someone acts like such a jerk that you can’t stand it. Whatever the reason, after you read an update, you’re possessed with the urge to wake someone up (because you know it’s 3 a.m., admit it) just so you can have your anger validated, or you get on chat and start all-capsing your fic buddy with things like OMG DID YOU READ I’MMA KILL SOMEONE I CAN’T BELIEVE HE DID THAT. Et cetera, et cetera.
- Fic That Keeps You Up 'Til 3 A.M. Reading: We’ve all done it. The story was so good that you think to yourself “Hmm, it’s ten. I can get away with two more chapters and then I’ll finish tomorrow after work.” Suddenly, it’s twenty chapters later, it’s 2:30 a.m., and you think OMG THREE MORE CHAPTERS I CAN DO THIS WHO CARES I’M ALREADY SCREWED FOR PRODUCTIVITY TOMORROW and you do, indeed, finish the story. Basically, you sacrifice your personal health, your marriage, your schoolwork, and all other things that are important because you chose to finish the story instead of wondering what you missed by choosing sleep over the fic.
11/14/2009 - October flew by, and the awards are right around the corner. We are still anticipating opening for noms on December 1 for the Eddies & Bellies. Revised rules and Bellies categories will be announced by Nov. 27.
8/22/2009 - And... we're back, after what we will not-so-affectionately refer to as "computer fail 2009."
Thank you to everyone who voted in the Bellie Awards this session. We had a huge turnout, and received some FANTASTIC suggestions for future Bellie categories. To all of you who were unable to participate in the chat where we announced the winners, we sincerely apologize. Apparently, we crashed the web interface for the software we were trying to use. We did announce the awards on Twitter, but we know a lot of you still missed out. We'll work out something different for next time.
Planning has started for the Winter 2010 awards. Nominations will open on December 1, 2009. The Eddie Awards will be more judge-centered. We anticipate unveiling the changes in October.
8/9/2009 - The winners have been announced and are indicated below. They have also been archived on the Bellie Winners page.