So some of you may have noticed fics appearing with banners on the site, there aren't many, it's mostly the admins that have tried this out. I'm writing this to let you all know you're all free to upload banners. In your account settings there's an area for image upload, it is set to upload images that are the size of our banners or smaller. The banner size we have is 100 H x 500 W in pixils. You can then use the little tree button to add one to your summary. If you need help with any of this feel free to contact me or any other admin.

For those of you who are not photoshop or graphics prone I might be willing to make banners for you if you send me an email with the story title and the images you'd like to use. This is a limited time offer, take advantage of it while you can. However, if I find you are an author that has posted stories but has not reviewed anyone don't bother messaging me for banners. That's just cheap. I'm not trying to call people out, but seriously, all the authors on here know the price of a review, it's pretty sad to see that some of those same authors never gave one.

Hugs and Kisses,

Laurie

Hey guys,

It's me again. Just letting you know some weird things may appear on the site in the next few days. If you spot bugs please let us know, so that we may fix them.

We have a new section for the featured, which you may have noticed, you may have also noticed it's blank. I wanted to apologize to any author who had a featured story prior to the changes, but since there was no system for featured and no logic to why the stories on there were on there, we've decided to make one. It won't be a monthly thing but something awarded to completed stories that we as admins feel deserve some more attention. Featured stories will get little banners with the admin or admins who chose to put them on there, any story that is a challenge winner will get a challenge banner.

That brings me to challenges, we have a section for them and we'd love to issue more of them, but it'd be nice to see some more responses to them. Once a challenge reaches five entries we will put the entries to a vote for a chance at getting on the featured list. Voting is done by registered users via the poll. This is all meant for fun, so feel free to respond to the challenges, there are two up right now.

In addition to this we'll be updating the FAQ, and perhaps adding a little beginner's guide to fan fiction, like a fun little reference to terminology.

I acknowledge this site has been around for years, and I don't want to change it, but I do want to keep it running and keep things fresh and new. We're pretty much in a league of our own, and we'd like to stay that way. So thanks guys for making SR what it is!

-Laurie

Ok, authors, let's chat for a minute. Readers can go back to reading and hopefully reviewing. So like, every other submission I get is marked for round robin, which made me realize you guys don't know what a round robin is. A round robin is a fan fiction started by one person that is continued by another.

Example: Drucilla Ryan writes the first chapter, Haushinka13 reads it and decides to continue with the second chapter, I read both and pick up the third, so on and so forth. The writers can post more than one chapter as long as another author posts in between, like after Haushinka posts, Dru can post again. Get it?

So this is what a round robin is. It's fun, and you're opening your story to other authors on the site. However, it seems the people selecting this option are not looking to round robin. So all you new authors, I'm taking off round robin from your stories. If this was your intention feel free to turn it back on. Lesson over, your homework assignment is to not click the button unless you want other authors to contribute. Anyone who does it from here on out will have me add a bizzarre new chapter to their stories.