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official author sign-ups!

This is the first of two posts going up today! All of the details you need to officially sign-up (aka, turning in your rough draft!) can be found in this post. Remember that you have to turn in your rough draft sometime between today and June 13th at midnight (PST). We’ve only received one submission so far and we’re looking forward to more! If your fic is going to be late, tell us now so we can work something out.

1. Make sure that your rough draft meets all of the requirements. Check that the appropriate characters are the focus of your fic, use the proper rating for the subject matter you included in your fic, and triple check the word count! (It needs to be at least 20,000 words!) Basically, just review all of the rules and the author section of the FAQ. Remember that your fic doesn’t need to be beta-read yet. It just needs to be complete enough for us to read (aka, it has a beginning, middle, and end).

2. Once your ready to submit your fic, you need to send it to the community's email, which is marauder.mods@gmail.com. Take a look at this question in FAQ: Tell me how I should format this darn thing, so I can send it in! It will provide you with all of the details you need to know to send your fic to us.

3. Please include your fic’s header in the document and in the body of the email. For the header, something like this would be great:



4. After you’ve sent the email, please leave a comment with the following information. (I know it seems a little redundant, but it helps us keep track of submissions.)



Comments are screened! And if I’m forgetting anything or you have you any questions, let me know! :)
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author sign-ups (NOW CLOSED!)

This is the author sign-up form for marauderbigbang. Just please copy the form into a comment and complete it! Preliminary sign-ups will close on January 31, 2010.

After you sign-up, make sure that you join marauderbigbang. We will be using this community for communication with the participants, so please make sure you join and watch it. After you have signed up to become an author for the challenge, you will receive an invitation to the author community within 24 hours. Please accept or reject the invitation as soon as possible. You don't have to join if you don't want to, but we highly recommend it! We plan on posting a lot of helpful hints, tips, and discussions there throughout the challenge.



Reminder: Please remember to read the rules, FAQ, and timeline before you sign-up. Also, try to think about what kind of story you'll be writing before you sign up. We'd like to have a general idea of what pairings are going to be represented and what genres people are going to select, so we can make sure we have a diverse group of betas/cheerleaders/artists for you. You are not under any obligation to use a cheerleader or beta during the rough draft phase. You will have to pair up with at least one beta during the official (second) phase.