Legolas raised a brow as he glanced down at his friend. Gimli? Making note of the weather? Something was up; he was sure of it! "Yes, the weather was quite conducive to the celebrations. Too bad it did not rain."
Best by Far by Nieriel Raina

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The Review Pyramid
A while ago, Amarok told me of her own private plan to leave a review on the archive for every comment she got on one of her stories. I liked that idea very much - it's simple, yet it encourages people to spend time reading and reviewing. Therefore, I decided to propose Amarok's idea to all NAN authors. I've called it the Review Pyramid. Consider it an archive-wide game of sorts. If you're interested in playing, check out this page.

Story of the Month is Linda Hoyland's "A Taste of Honey"!

I'm still playing around with Twitter. I found a way to automatically send NAN's RSS Feed to the service. So I've set up an account solely for NAN, which will give you an additional opportunity to keep track of new stories in the archive.

If you have a Twitter account, follow NAN@Twitter to see instantly whether there was an update to the site - you will see both new stories and new chapters. If you want updates practially appearing on your desktop, you might want to check out TwitterFox, which will give you a popup every time the account is updated. Really neat!

A few days ago, an email was making the rounds asking all MEFA reviewers to review, review, review. Because after all, this is what makes the MEFAs an unique experience for everyone involved.

Of course, with so many stories nominated in so many categories, it might be hard to find just the right story for you. If you're totally lost and don't know where to start, why not review a story hosted on NAN? The following stories archived here are nominated this year:

Amarok
And So Our Friendship Began
My Brother. My Captain. My King.

cairistiona
The Mariner's Son

Michelle
Only Water in Your Veins

There are many more of our authors nominated, but for the moment I decided to concentrate on what is actually hosted here. I may or may not make a list for Teitho stories, because from what I've seen a lot of stories are nominated that were originally written for Teitho. But don't count on it, because that will need a lot of digging and clicking links!

In any case, nominated authors are invited to pimp their stories in their profiles or add a MEFA button to the story notes!

As per request, here are - finally - some banners if you want to link back to NAN. You can access the banners by clicking on the Link to Us link, which is located at the bottom of the page.

Many thanks to Nautika for providing most of the pretty banners!

I must admit, I never spent much energy on the featured stories. Whenever the mood hit me, I decided to change the three stories that were featured on the main page. This strategy was far from perfect, so I decided to try something different.

From now on, we will only have one featured story at a time, which will be featured for one month (this way, more stories than before should end up being featured). So, not surprisingly, it will be called Story of the Month. Instead of me deciding which story should be featured I'm delegating all the work to you! At the beginning of the month, I will make a poll listing all stories that were finished the previous month. Then you have one week to vote for the one you liked best. The story with the most votes will win the title of Story of the Month (and a shiny banner which has yet to be created *g*) and will be displayed prominently for the rest of the month. 

The poll for July was just added, go ahead and place your vote!