Hope That Holds.

Moreover (sorry, will stop beating this dead horse soon) the story that first gets picked to cross over is almost never the story you'd want--because it's picked by an outsider who doesn't know the history or rules of the lit. I've gotten used to this in academic studies of fandom, many of which were written by people who were outsiders or who didn't know fandom well enough, and so wrote about what they thought was typical of us based on their whole 6 months in fandom or whatever. It's frustrating, I grant you, but they break the ground in a way--getting others (me for instance) angry enough that we go and do our own books. I've become a published fanfiction authority out of sheer spleen, and also because I prefer my version of events to other people's. I've been around this Mulberry Bush before is what I'm saying.

Next year, I say fandom aggressively LOBBIES to put some stories on the long list!