A Song of Ice and Fire - Fanfic and Fanart Exchange

All entries for round 8 have been posted. You can find the masterlist here. If you catch up on any fics and art you've missed, don't forget to leave a comment. That goes especially for those of you who haven't commented on their gift yet - it's incredibly rude not to say thank you to someone who wrote/drew something just for you.

As a reminder, there's a got_exchange collection on AO3, so if you repost your fics there, you can add them to the collection if you like. I'm also working on setting up a tumblr for the exchange. Don't worry, the exchange itself will remain entirely Livejournal-based; the only point of the tumblr will be to make it easier for those of you who check tumblr more often than LJ to stay up to speed about reminders, fic posts etc. I hope this will help a little with the problem of people not seeing the check-in post or not noticing that their fic was posted until weeks later.

I hope everyone enjoyed this round of the exchange. My thanks to everyone who participated and/or commented, and especially to the pinch-hitters: leapylion3, schattenfalke, moderntrickster, breve and outboxed.

Here's the schedule for round 9:

Sign-ups will be open from January 13th to January 24th.
Assignments will be sent out on January 26th.
The deadline will be on March 16th.

I know that's fairly soon, but whenever I posted polls in the past about when the next round should take place, most people wanted to have another round sooner rather than later, so at some point I stopped doing that. I hope this schedule works for most of you.

Again, thanks everyone. And if you have any criticism about this exchange or suggestions for future rounds, please let me know. :)

The deadline is today. Unless we've agreed on an extension, you should send me your fic/art by the end of the day. If you need a few more days to finish your fic/art, please let me know.

Posting starts tomorrow with one fic/art per day. I may switch to two per day once everyone has actually sent in their fic. Please do not post your fic or art elsewhere before it has been posted here.

And the usual request to all members of the community, not just the participants: please, please comment. Nobody expects you to read fics you're not interested in, but if you read and enjoy something anyway, it doesn't take that much time and effort to write a short comment to tell the author or artist you liked their work. And it should go without saying that you are expected to leave a proper comment on the fic/art made just for you; anything else is just rude to the person who spent so much time writing/drawing something for you.

I hope everyone enjoyed participating so far and that all of you will like your gift.

Oh, and I was asked to let you know that there's a new exchange just for ASOIAF smut fic. Head over to smutty_westeros if you're interested.

I just sent out the assignments. Please make sure you have received an email from gotexchange[at]hotmail[dot]com. If you haven't, please tell me right away. I hope everyone is okay with their assignment. In most cases you probably won't like all of the prompts you've been given, but I did my best to give everyone at least two or three prompts with characters/pairings they like. Since there have been misunderstandings about this before: you only have to fill one prompt, not several.

If you have any questions about your prompts, please contact me, not your giftee. If you have to drop out for whatever reason, tell me as soon as possible so I can look for a pinch-hitter. Don't just disappear without a word.

For the record, there are 32 participants this time. Thanks to everybody for participating. I hope that all of you like your prompts and that you'll enjoy writing/drawing them.

If you're willing to beta read for other writers,  please fill in this little form. And if you need a beta reader, don't be shy, feel free to contact people from this list.

Beta sign-up:

Your name?
How can you be contacted?
What kinds of feedback can you give or not give? (spelling, grammar, style, characterisation etc.)
What kinds of fic (genres, characters, pairings) do you refuse to beta read?
Anything else?

Hi everyone,

Here's the schedule for the next round of the exchange:

Sign-ups will be open from October 9th to October 18th
Assignments will be sent out on October 20th
The deadline will be on December 8th
Posting will start on December 9th

I hope this schedule works for everyone who wants to participate. If you won't be able to participate this time, don't worry - there will always be another round next year.

As always, if you have any questions or problems, don't hesitate to contact me.