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From a Scream to a Sigh

I have decided that I would like to do a PDF book of Bond fanfic to post in the fanfic section. And I would like to challenge the FFRC to help me pick out the stories. I would like appoximately five short stories for the book (one I have picked already, but more on that later).

I’m going to set a few groundrules:

• The stories must be the literary Bond
• It will be the duty of the club to obtain permission from the author
• At least three must be from the stories posted in the CBn forums
• If the fanfic is from another site, it will be the responsibility of the FFRC to make sure that the other site does not have a problem with the work being used

I will leave it to Tanger to make the rules on how the club makes the decisions. I will also leave it to him on how long it will take to come up with the list.

As to the story I have already chosen, I will not reveal what it is until later as I don’t want it to miss out on any discusion. I will say that it is in the CBn Fan Fiction Posting forums, so it can be one of the three.

After a list of stories are compiled and all of the permissions gathered we will decide on a title for the collection and then I will design a cover and typeset the book. It will then be added to the books in the fan fiction section. So pick some winners.

Interesting challenge, Mr. *. We've been working on some longer pieces lately, but I'm sure Tanger can pull some good, upcoming choices out of his magical bag of tricks for us to have a good pool to choose from. I'd want to withdraw myself from rating anything I've written, however; I'm far too critical of my own work .

Mr. * please read my PM.

OK let's get this underway. Thanks to Mr. * for setting this challenge. It is somewhat similar to something that I planned but that doesn't matter now.

Let's lay down some rules first.

Firstly, I think it'd be best if we only allow people to vote for a certain number of pieces each and then we pick the ones that got the most votes from those.

Secondly, we WILL NOT be voting for any pieces that have already been published properly such as 'A British Assassin', 'Finders, Keepers', 'Deathstyles of the Rich and Blameless' etc. which, superb as they were, have already attracted attention and have given those writers their chance at getting their work read.
No, this is for all those short stories that are posted on the forums. The ones that hardly anybody bothers to read (except us fan fiction nuts) only because they don't have a cover and aren't done in a pdf. format. This is a chance, to get all these stories into the spotlight and read by all Bond fans.

Hence, this is the challenge:

-Every member from the FFRC must read and pick 3 pieces of fan fiction.
-You can look on CBn, MI6, AJB, fan fiction.net or anywhere else where it might be available
-Everyone must put forward their reasons for choosing their 3 pieces and must put up an argument for why it deserves a place in the collection
-The FFRC members will then vote on the pieces that they think are the best and most deserving
-Once we have the required number of pieces it will then be the responsibility of the person who originally chose them to contact the author and seek permission to use it
-Once this has all been cleared we can decide in which order the pieces will appear in the collection and everyone will put forward ONE title suggestion. We will have a poll to vote or the best one
-Once the collection is complete, the FFRC will review the piece as a whole and then it will be made available for download to all visitors of this site.

This whole process will begin immediately and I think it is fair that this could be done within 2-3 weeks.

Ladies and Gentlemen, let the challenge begin!

Love the idea, I'll begin looking around for some choices of mine!

Going to be tough, about 95% of them are not finished, and most never will be. But what the hey, I read fast .

Well, being mainly a member of AJB, I thought I'd suggest an excellent piece of work from there. The Corners Of Her Mind by frostbitten (John Lam, author of Archangel), which was supposed to have been released a while ago but nothing seemed to happen, and from what I can see is the only unreleased finished story. Still a great short, though it might be released properly on AJB in the future. Link: http://www.ajb007.co.uk/index.php?topic=17275

Yes, actually this is a bit tougher than I thought it would be, alot of great ones started, but never finished.

Later tonight, I'll have to check out AJB and see if I can find some good ones that I'll check out.

frostbitten's tale is going to be added to the site(AJB) in the not too distant future.
SiCo hasn't been able to add anything to the fanfiction library due to working hard on finishing his degree. Once we hit the month of May various things will be added to AJB in terms of Fan Fiction. So let me just say everyone that is a member of the FFRC are in for a treat soon.

The first of my three recommendations will be Death of a Shadow.

I've just re-scanned all of the offerings at FFn, and this was the one that really stood out once the stories that do not match the Tanger/Mr. * guidelines have been eliminated.

This is going to be very difficult, I feel like an air conditioner that is about to burn out because its filter has been clogged by too much gunk .

Ugh, this is difficult to find completed short stories, I've found about 10 or so ones that I liked, but they weren't completed at all. Will continue to look though.

I think I'll change the rule to 1 piece per person as this doesn't seem to be working. Also, forget all the putting forward the argument and that and we'll just go to a vote.

So far:

Clinkeroo - Death of a Shadow

That's it? Come one guys, Mr. * is counting on us. What about Xenobia does she have any suggestions.

I'm going to put forward the piece PASSING THROUGH which was written by the member 'al' on these forums. Also the piece by Double-O-Zero 'The Lingering Fate'. That brings the total, including Mr. *'s to 4. If we just get about 3 more then we have enough to look through and pick our favourites.