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***** 1st Annual BSB & 'N Sync Story Awards *****

Hello everyone, I'm JM, author of the Brian & Justin series. I have read many good and interesting stories on Nifty lately. I've noticed great authors, authors that could improve and brillant authors. Now here's the deal, it's voting time!!! It's the time for all readers, authors and friends alike get to vote for their favorites. All authors nominated will recieve an E-mail telling them what categories they are up for. It has been a LONG process narrowing down the many nominations in each category. I want to thank Chris and Nick for helping me with that. Now, onto the voting. Please read over the guidelines again so you know how it works.

VOTING HAS CLOSED. Please stay tuned for the results.

Now, read over everything and check out the categories and FINAL nominees.

GUIDELINES....

PLEASE READ before sending in nominations. Any nominations done wrong will be rejected. So it is VERY important that you read these nomination guidlines...

Qualifications:

1. To be able to nominate, you have to have a BSB or N Sync story on Nifty.

Otherwise, I can't accept your nominations, just your votes. I want to

give all authors a chance to nominate their favorite authors. That way

it's a little more sincere.

Nominating:

1. Make sure to fill in each category with a nominee. You can only nominate

BSB and/or 'N Sync related material. 2. When you send in your ballot, please tell me your author name on Nifty

and the name of your story. DO NOT send me the story. Most likely, I've

seen it already. 3. You can nominate up to 4 people in a category. No more. If you choose

to, you can nominate less. But no more then 4!!! 4. Please make sure to write down the name of the series and the author

with each nomination. 5. I ask that you be honest with the nominations. Don't nominate someone

because they're your friend or relation. Nominate them because their work

has shown to really be good. Nominate someone who has kept your attention

and who's work shines among the others.

Filling in the Ballot:

1. At the beginning of the e-mail, give me your author name and the name of

your storyline/story. 2. Next, attach the nomination ballot with your nominations on it. You can

paste it onto the mail, attach it as a .doc, .html or a .txt. I can not

accept anything but those four. 3. With each category, nominate up to 4 or less in the title category.

Include the name of the story and the author so I can know where you got it

from. You can nominate yourself, I have no problem with that. As long as

authors don't get out of hand with it. 4. You can ONLY nominate stories or authors that are on the Nifty page. No

other outside stories will be accepted. I'm sorry, but this is the only

way I can be sure that the stories are real. 5. You can only nominate once. I won't accept more then one form from each

author. 6. If there is any category that you DO NOT understand, don't be afraid to

let me know. I'll fill you in on it.

Categories:

1. Make sure to put the right information in the right category. 2. For each category with 'Best use of a Character', you can nominate any

author's work. The series or storyline does not have to concentrate mainly

on that character. For instance, if the category is 'Best use of Nick

Carter', you can nominate JM for use due to the fact that the author uses

the character in the series. It doesn't matter if the series does not

include that characters name. So those categories are not limited to a

series about that character. 3. When nomintaions are in, I will narrow each category down to 4 nominees,

depending on who got the most votes. 4. For anything having to do with a 'series only' listing, you should know

what that means. I will not except any material outside a series for that

category. Same applies to a 'single story' category. 5. To be considered a series, the storyline must have at least 4 chapters.

Otherwise, I'll just consider it a single story for now.

Voting:

1. Anyone can vote for these awards. And you are allowed to vote up to

three times, but don't send the same votes three times. Be creative and at

least change some of your votes. 2. The vote will last a week and no further. Please try to send them in

within that time period. 3. Only vote once in each category. 4. You CAN vote for yourself. There's no shame in having pride in your work.

Finally, here's the ballot:

1. Best Plot (in a single story)

• Brian & Keith

• Just JC

• Kevin & Dustin

• Collision Course With the BSB

1. Best Plot (in a series)

• Brian & Justin

• Boy Meets BSB

• N Sync Love

• Bangin' B-Rok

1. Most Romantic Couple

• Brian & Justin

• My Night With Howie D.

• Bangin' B-Rok

• B-Rok's 10,000 Promises

1. Best Couple (in a single story)

• Keith & Brian

• Kevin & Dustin

• Donny & Justin (Touring With 'N Sync)

• Justin & JC (Just JC)

1. Best Couple (in a series)

• Nick & Adam

• Brian & Justin

• Craig & Howie (My Night With Howie D.)

• Matt & Nick (Boy Meets BSB)

1. Best Chapter of a Story (series only)

• Boy Meets BSB Chapter 7

• Brian & Justin Chapter 50

• B-Rok's 10,000 Promises Part 7

• My Night With Howie D. Chapter 9

1. Most Innovative Author

• JM (Brian & Justin)

• Zeo (N Sync Love)

• Craig (My Night With Howie D.)

• Luckylou (Boy Meets BSB)

1. Most Dramtic Scene

• Plane crash in Loving BSB

• Bangin' B-Rok break-up

• 'I Love You' in Boy Meets BSB

• Death in B-Rok's 10,000 Promises

1. Best Character in a Story (series only)

• Justin (Brian & Justin)

• Howie (My Night With Howie D.)

• Mano (N Sync Love)

• Matt (Boy Meets BSB)

1. Best use of a Character

• Justin Timberlake (Brian & Justin)

• Dustin (Kevin & Dustin)

• Nick Carter (Brian & Justin)

• AJ McLean (Brian & Justin)

1. Best Original Character(s)

• Adam (Nick & Adam)

• Chris (B-Rok's 10,000 Promises)

• Craig (My Night With Howie D.)

• Dustin (Kevin & Dustin)

1. Best use of Kevin Richardson

• Kevin & Dustin

• Brian & Justin

• B-Rok's 10,000 Promises

• Bangin' B-Rok

1. Best use of Chris Kirkpatrick

• Just JC

• N Sync Love

• Brian & Justin

1. Best Love Scene

• Brian & Justin

• Bangin' B-Rok

• Boy Meets BSB

• My Night With Howie D.

1. Most Romantic Love Scene

• Brian & Justin

• My Night With Howie D.

• Kevin & Dustin

• Brian & Cody

1. Best use of Nick Carter

• Nick & Adam

• B-Rok's 10,000 Promises

• Boy Meets BSB

• Brian & Justin

1. Best use of Brian Littrell

• Nick & Brian

• B-Rok's 10,000 Promises

• Brian & Justin

• Bangin' B-Rok

1. Best use of Lance Bass

• Rob & Lance

• N Sync Love

• Brian & Justin

• Just JC

1. Biggest Surprise

• Matt takes forever for Nick... (Boy Meets BSB)

• Love takes forever to hit N Sync (N Sync Love)

• Chris's Death (B-Rok's 10,000 Promises)

• Nick & others arrival to Brian & Justin's rendez-vous (Brian & Justin)

1. Up-And-Coming Authors (single story)

• Touring With N Sync

• I Think I Love You B-Rok

• Brian & Nick

• Collsion Course With BSB

1. Up-And-Coming Authors (series)

• N Sync Love

• Kevin & Dustin

• Brian & Cody

• Boy Meets BSB

1. Best Storyline (series only)

• Brian & Justin's relationship (Brian & Justin)

• My Night With Howie D.

• Bangin' B-Rok

• Boy Meets BSB

1. Saddest Death (series only)

• BSB Me

• B-Rok's 10,000 Promises

• My Night With Howie D.

1. Best use of JC Chasez

• Just JC

• N Sync Love

• Brian & Justin

• Touring With N Sync

1. Best use of AJ McLean

• My Night With Howie D.

• Brian & Justin

1. Most Anticipated Couple (series only)

• JC & Mano (N Sync Love)

• Matt & Nick (Boy Meets BSB)

• Kevin & Dustin

• Nick & Brian

1. Worst Couple

• Backstreet: Banging With The Boys

• Nick & Lance (Brian & Justin)

• Justin & Lance (Loving BSB)

• Kevin & JC (Loving BSB)

1. Best use of the Backstreet Boys

• Brian & Justin

• Bangin' B-Rok

• My Night With Howie D.

• Nick & Adam

1. Best use of Howie Dorough

• My Night With Howie D.

• Brian & Justin

• Nick & Adam

• B-Rok's 10,000 Promises

1. Best use of Joey Fatone

• Brian & Justin

• Just JC

• N Sync Love

1. Best use of Justin Timberlake

• Brian & Justin

• N Sync Love

• Just JC

• Touring With N Sync

1. Best Vocabulary in a Story

• Brian & Justin

• Boy Meets BSB

• Just JC

• Kevin & Dustin

1. Best Series

• Brian & Justin

• Bangin' B-Rok

• Boy Meets BSB

• B-Rok's 10,000 Promises

1. Best Single Storyline

• Just JC

• Touring With N Sync

• Nick & Brian

• Matt & B-Rok

1. Best use of 'N Sync

• Brian & Justin

• Just JC

• N Sync Love

• Touring With N Sync

1. Best Villain (series only)

• Nick (Brian & Justin)

• Rob & Lauren (Loving BSB)

• Howie (Brian & Justin)

• Howie (B-Rok's 10,000 Promises)

1. Best use of food in a Love Scene

• Strawberries (Loving BSB)

• 50th Scene (Brian & Justin)

• B-Rok's 10,000 Promises

1. Best Author of a Series

• JM (Brian & Justin)

• Calguy (Bangin' B-Rok)

• Craig (My Night With Howie D.)

• JJ Vascardi (Loving BSB)

1. Best Author of a Single Story

• Adam (Just JC)

• Collision Course with BSB

• Touring With N Sync

• Backstreet Boys Sixth Member

1. Saddest Break-Up

• Bangin' B-Rok

• Brian & Justin

• B-rok's 10,000 Promises

1. Happiest Couple (series only)

• Nick & Matt (Boy Meets BSB)

• Kevin & Dustin (Kevin & Dustin)

• Nick & Adam (Nick & Adam)

• Howie & Craig (My Night With Howie D.)

1. Best Repeat Storyline

• Brian & Justin

• Touring With N Sync

1. Best Reunion of Love

• Craig & Howie

• Brian & Justin

• Nick & Adam

1. Funniest Moment

• Adam's hair-dye by AJ (Nick & Adam)

• Brian exposing himself to AJ (Brian & Justin)

1. Story of the Year

• Brian & Justin

• My Night With Howie D.

• Bangin' B-Rok

• B-Rok's 10,000 Promises

Have fun voting and you have a week from today (3/19/99) to send or votes. Then I'll post all winners. If anyone has a way we can give the winners an award or something, please let me know. I WILL NOT let anyone know who's winning when it comes to voting. It's no fun and not fair that way. Thanks for helping me and I appreciate...

Sincerly yours, JM