Weird.

[ratherastory]

So the pingback_bot informs me that After the End made it onto the SPN News Letter. Which is really cool, but... I don't get it. Why that story and not others? I've been on there a couple of times (which, no, really, yay!), but I cannot for the life of me tell what sort of criteria they use.

Confused cat is confused.

Comments

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

I don't get it either. I have no concept about their criteria. I made it once and was just baffled because honestly, I think I wrote other fics that were better than the one they selected...

*I got nothing*

[embroiderama]

Hmm, that's weird! They should get everything, and when they don't you should leave a note asking them to put your story in the next newsletter.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Hee!

I'm not really that motivated. Besides, with the amount I've been writing lately, they would get really sick of me, really fast. :)

I have something like eighty SPN stories, and I think three of them have made it into the newsletter. I'm happy for those stories, but I honestly don't know what made them newsletter-worthy rather than others. It's not even a gen vs slash thing, so I don't even know.

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

I posted like 5 or so stories here and only one made it to the newsletter.....

[morganoconner.livejournal.com]

It depends on which comms you're posting to. They only add stories from the comms that are specifically part of the newsletter (the community needs to contact them asking to be included). Because you write primarily gen, I'm assuming you don't normally post much to comms that they'd catch. My guess is they caught this one through sassy_otp.

;)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Could be, although I seem to recall some of my gen stories getting on there. IDK.

It's nice that it was there, though!

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

huh. That makes sense.... but I only post to hoodie_time and ohsam and stick to Gen. Although I do seem to recall that the one story that they rec'ed was my one and only slash...

[embroiderama]

They have a watch list that's a whole lot of SPN comms and journals: spn_watcher. Really, they should catch most everything, and I'm not sure why they don't.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Yeah - I agree. *head scratch* I had one for the newsletter for a vid once but not for any other vid links. I thought it might have been because they usually link to a community where I post my vids but this time they linked it to my actual journal. Could it be something to do with that maybe? If it's linked to a comm it doesn't pingback - if your personal journal it does???

*shrugs*

Who knows... (I like the ping back thingy though.. especially for recs.. *g*)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I luuurve the pinback-thingy for recs! It's probably a little sad just how happy it makes me when someone links to my stuff. :D

[borgmama1of5.livejournal.com]

I was told they pull the contents of the newsletter from specific coms they check, so I would guess it depends where you post your stuff.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

When I cross-post at all, it's always to the same comms. morganoconner pointed out that it's probably because I posted this one to sassy_otp. Doesn't explain the gen stories, mind you.

[honeylocusttree.livejournal.com]

What is the SPN newsletter? Something of mine popped up there and I went "...huh." But I have no idea of what its relevance is. Enlighten me?

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

Thank you for asking this question....

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

It's supposed to be a weekly round-up of everything that goes on in fandom, if I understood correctly.

[debbiel66.livejournal.com]

Huh. I don't think I've ever had a story not included, so it's got to be because I crosspost to a lot of journals. And I write only gen.

[cece-away.livejournal.com]

There's a newsletter? It looks more like a fic list recommend.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Not recs, because they don't make any claims about content as far as I can see. It's just "This is what got written this week."

[jesseofthenorth.livejournal.com]

Hey
I think they try to get as much of everything as they can in the newsletter. The thing is this fandom is ridiculously hugely productive, Like scary productive. I don't know how 3 or 4 people would be able to catch it all.
I do know that everytime I have asked them to post one of my stories they've done so. I think it is just pretty random really. They have every level of writing posted,I think it's just what they catch.
The H50 newsletter catches everything posted on LJ as far as I can see and they are still only half the size most of the time and only 3 days a week.
I think you'd need 6 monkeys chained to their computers to catch everything the SPN fandom cranks out.

[shinysylver.livejournal.com]

I've posted 3 h50 fic to the same coms and only one got caught. *shrug*

[maypoles.livejournal.com]

They only pick up stories that have been posted to comms watched by spn_watcher. ;)

I think they do great job; this fandom is so huuuuge I can't even image attempting such a project.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I can't even keep up with my flist, let alone all of fandom!

[primrose-1.livejournal.com]

I didn't know there WAS A spn newsletter! Awesome that you got in!

[lavinialavender.livejournal.com]

Just the sixth chapter of freac_camp appeared in the newsletter. None of the previous ones, though we post it to the same places every time. *shrugs*

[bumblee.livejournal.com]

My fic is picked up from posting in the main comms of whichever ship I'm writing. I'm not sure I've ever had a problem with it *not* appearing. I guess it just depends. I can see things getting missed, though. So much is posted everyday.

[vail-kagami.livejournal.com]

Same here. I think my first SPN story ever ended up there, but none of the ones I posted after. Originally I thought it had something to do with where they are posted, like, some communities escape their notice, but upon further observation, there seems to be little to no connection there.
I did notice that my friend's Dean/Cas fics all got to the newsletter, but her Dean/Cas/Sam one didn't. They were all posted in the same place, though. Honestly, I have no idea.

However, I haven't given it that much thought. Until recently, I didn't even know the newsletter existed. (I mainly use it to find fanart. For fanfic I prefer places that offer a summary.) /TMI