Thursday 10 May 2012

May Newsletter

Greetings Fangreaders,

Excitement is in the air lately with the release of Charlaine Harris’ “Deadlocked” and speculation growing for the Season 5 of True Blood which will be a completely new creature from any of the books.  I’m excited for all these new inspirations for more SVM/TB fanfic and chat topics.

Welcome

A big welcome to all our newest members and look forward to meeting you all in the Fangreaders Chatroom.   We have so many different chats and times for any member to just pop in and have fun.  We also have many times available for those that may be interested in hosting a chat~ so please don’t be shy!

A note about membership and why:

As stated in our welcome letter, we feel it is important to have some means to ensure that all that participate are adults (18+).   It may be a little fiddly at first, but once you have been in the chatroom  you can re-enter at anytime with just a click.  As administrator, I feel that this is the easiest and less evasive way to get the message to those that enter the chatroom that all are welcome that are 18+.   Our Chatzy chatroom is not censored though we ask for all to be respectful of everyone.  It is a relaxed environment where discussions may be of a mature nature.  If we did not have these small measures our chatrooms would have to be constantly monitored to avoid any mature discussions or photos being seen by minors.  If anyone has any problems in entering the chatroom, please contact Fairy ( http://kontactr.com/user/Fairyblood ).  It is recommended that if you haven’t entered the chatroom for the past 90 days to just pop in sometime to make sure your link works. 

Survey

In the next week or two,  there will be a survey sent out to all the Fangreaders members asking what all you would like to see from our Fangreaders community.  Please take the few minutes to fill it out so that we can make sure to give you more of what you want.  Our community is for everyone to enjoy and to participate as much as you would like.  It’s here to discuss and express your love for SVM and True Blood fanfics, characters, shows, novels as well as so much more.  We are here to support contests and challenges for the writers in the fandom and to find creative ways to show our appreciation for all those stories that we love with Fanfic Awards.  We all look forward to hearing your thoughts and look forward to bringing you more of what you want.

Chronicles of an Adventure

We are very sorry to announce that the Chronicles of an Adventure will be taking an intermission for the time being but will resume (Date and time TBA).  Please feel free to send any artworks inspired by the challenge to be posted on the site.  Stay tuned for more information. If you have any questions or would like to be able to help out with the challenge when it resumes, please email chronicles.adventures@gmail.com .

In the Chatroom:

We are constantly wanting more topics and chathosts for our chatroom.  Our fabulous chathosts come up with very innovative and fun topics that anyone can enjoy and participate.  Please pop on in and say Hi ~ we are all very welcoming and love a good chat.

You will be seeing new topics and chats coming up.  We are always asking for story recommendations and for Spotlight Authors requests.  Please send those to http://bit.ly/FangSuggest

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Our Forum~ Josephines

Timezones can be a pain and sometimes we just can’t make it to the chats. So please come in and check out our Fangreaders Forum, “Josephines” http://fangreaderschat.free-forum.net/index.php  and give your opinions on chats and other topics.  The forum’s administrator, PoeticJacqueline, will be hosting a Forum party soon So be sure to get signed up now for more topics and activities. The date of the party will be announced soon~ so stay tuned.

The Fangreaders Library:

All fangreader authors are welcome to post a list of their stories, links, summary and banners of their works here on the site http://bit.ly/FangLibrary .  Just send a document of your post to Sephrenia at fangreaderslibrary@gmail.com .   And don’t forget to tell us if you’ve read a great fanfic lately with our Readers Review form.  You can fill it out on the site or HERE (http://bit.ly/FangReview)

The Fangreaders Hall of Fame

The Hall of Fame (http://fangreaders-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/) is our home for award winning fanfics and authors.  If you are hosting a contest or challenge and would like to have a post announcing your winners, please feel free to notify us at thefangreaders@gmail.com .

Back by popular demand will be the Lemon Tart Awards.  Celebrating the fanfics and their talented writers, the Lemon Tarts award all the lemony goodness of erotic writing.  This fun awards ceremony  will be fun for everyone to participate in.  Just keep the cold shower running, because it’s gonna get steamy!!  

Our awards take time to prepare and present so that they are fun for the whole fandom. All members are welcome to join in the team behind the scenes and any time to can volunteer will be welcome.  We will be having different groups in charge of advertising(pimping); graphics; post writing; and brainstorming.  If you would like to help with the Lemon Tarts, please email Fairy ( http://kontactr.com/user/Fairyblood ).

The Sheriff’s Star

In order to show at least some of our deep appreciation to all of you that have helped to get the word out about our community, we have issued a personalised Sheriff’s Star.  We can not thank you enough, but hope that you wear your badge proudly.  (For more info and to find out how you can get one go to : http://fangreaders.blogspot.co.uk/p/sheriffs-star.html )

Our Main Site, Chatroom Central (http://fangreaders.blogspot.co.uk/) :

Over the past year we have expanded and evolved into a large community.  Though we change the site around every couple of weeks, we feel that a major overhaul is required.  We ask for your patience as we make it more user friendly to those that want to know what is going on in our community.

In Closing

We hope you are enjoying “Deadlocked” and are currently having chats for those that have read it and want to share their opinions.  More will be coming so stay tuned. 

When the next season of True Blood starts next month we will of course be having chats about what you think, but we also recommend you check out Fangover Mondays on the True Blood on Twitter Chatroom where they will be chatting with members from the True Blood on Twitter Role Playing Group and hosted by one our lovely chathosts, Musings by Char. Their chatroom to is open to the fandom so please be sure to drop in!

As always we are asking if you have any free time and want to be able to help out in the running of the Fangreaders or would like to host a chat, to please contact any of the administrators to let them know.  We need: Fang Chat Hosts (various timezones available) Fang Reporter (for our Newletter site) Fang Vid Maker (Make YouTube Vids) Fang Artists (to make graphics) Fang Admin( to help with scheduling, memberships, birthdays etc) ….or any kind of talent you would like share with us.

Many thanks to all of you!

Fairyblood