SV feedbackathon day 1: new authors

The Smallville feedbackathon is here!

The feedbackathon is an eight-day celebration of everyone who gives us fannish joy. All you need to do to participate is send feedback to someone in Smallville fandom who has enriched your fannish experience somehow, with their stories, art, icons, vids, meta, livejournal posts, or other activities in support of the fandom. So go forth and feedback! If you'd like, take one of our official icons (though that is certainly not required.)

I'll be posting suggestions every day for the benefit of those who like a little structure in their feedbackathon. So the theme for today is: Encourage a new author .

New authors in a fandom do not necessarily get a lot of attention, and sometimes getting positive feedback from a few people makes the difference between those authors who stay in the fandom, continue writing and become our new favorite authors, and those who get discouraged and stop writing or leave fandom.

This is not to say that the search for new authors to encourage is an entirely unselfish act--I myself am making my way through the list below, and I've already found three amazing stories I haven't read before. And I've barely started!

So where do you find these new authors?

Here are lists compiled from the Wild Coyote, Level Three, and Smallville Slash Archives. My scientific method involved writing down all the authors who've posted a story within the past year and then cross-checking to see who *hadn't* posted a story before last year. I may have inadvertantly included a few folks who've been writing in the fandom longer but only recently archived their stories, but I couldn't figure out a more efficient way to do this.

The new authors at Wild Coyote (the het archive) were :

Ferd, Irish guy, June, Katie, Letia, Miss D, Niping, onelittlesleep, snarky1

The new authors at Level Three (the gen and all-pairing archive) were:

Darkwing Duck, Glacis, June, Letia, Ni Ping

The new authors at the Smallville Slash Archive were:

amberjack, Anita, annakas, Antigone, Audra Rose, Ballistic Liz, Belladonna, Bellat, Betsanne, bitchy grrl, chimosa, ciaan, clarkoholic, clexAddict, colored ink, dehc, Devin, Ditzy, Eletryxx, Erynn, Fan_Spagle, Fancyspinner, HRD, JMA, Kate Lewis, keikokin, kHo, knightmare, Lasha, LBM, lilibel, lostmarble, Magdelena, Mindige), MorrPhyc, Polexen, Psychi, Rise Again Phoenix, sc182, Shadowstar, shattered, slash bunny, Smallvilles Girl, Sori, Sorrel, Sterling Dragonfly, Supercaptain182, Super Woobie, Suture, toadstoolsmiles, trieduntrue, Vivian Darkbloom, Yevgenie

The new authors recommended by folks on my f-list were
allzugern, whose stories are here
audrarose, whose story is here.
bop_radar, whose story is here .
carcassi, whose stories are here and here.
theclexfactor, whose first story is here and whose icon-stories are here.
chimosa, whose stories are here .
coloredink, whose stories are here.
EllenF, who posts on her blog here .
estrella30, whose stories are here.
khohen1, whose stories are here .
kristiinthedark, whose stories are here.
lexsbabymama, whose stories are here.
mskatej, whose stories are here.
robynadele0406, whose stories are at K-site. You can find one of them here .
sadiekate, whose stories are here.
sori1773, whose stories are here .
stir_of_echoes, whose stories are here .
strlngdragonfly, whose stories are here .
supercaptain182, whose stories are here .
teot, whose stories are here .
toadstoolsmiles, whose stories are here.
voldything, whose stories are here .
(I know there is some overlap with the lists above, but since not all of the stories by these authors are posted on the archives, I decided not to worry about duplication).

A couple recommended new authors whose fanfic is posted at other places are:

kdsch123, whose stories are here: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1018002/
Lucy Wiggin, whose stories are here: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/198088/


Know a new author who's not on this list and should be? Comment, and I will add them. Feel free to promote yourself!

So, what are you waiting for? Go send some feedback!