Here are the results thus far for the Christmas Challenge:

Best Cliff-hanger: Alice - Hand reaching for Kelsey
Best Funny Moment: Kav - Tanya cooks rat
Best Journal Story: Christmas Challenge (Tanya Gans), Kav
Best Advent Story: Impending Nuptials, mentor
Best Overall Story: Christmas Challenge (Tanya Gans), Kav

Congratulations to the above authors!! You will shortly be hearing from Gershwin about your LEVI awards.

The polls for Best New Author are still open and will close on Feb 11th. In addition, there was a tie between marlo29 and mentor for Best Fuzzy Moment, and so I'm proud to introduce our first ever runoff election! A new poll will be posted momentarily allowing voters to choose between the top two runners in that category. This poll will also close on Feb 11th, and Best New Author and Best Fuzzy Moment will be awarded on Feb 12th. I realize this might be a bit scattered, but everyone please take the time to vote. This is our way of saying thanks to the authors for all their hard work!

Congratulations, not only to our winners but to all the people who made the effort to enter the contest. We've all enjoyed your stories so much. Thank you!

Congrats ladies!!!! It was an honor to be in such good company for the challenge!

Congrats to everyone who entered! What talented writers we have on this board!

Congratulations to all the winners! Some of those were really hard to vote for! Great writing and it was a honor to be a part of it! Oh and thanks for keeping the Christmas season extra merry with all the great stories to read!

And the last of the results are in!

Best Fuzzy Moment: marlo29 - Declaration of love
Best New Author: marlo29


Again, congratulations to all our winners!

hehe, by this time, I think it is safe to say that marlo has fully passed out of being a new writer! hehe