Welcome to the first ever Fan-Fiction-Tastic News, covering the month of September, 2013! 
My first month as Fan Fiction Community Volunteer has been exciting and wonderful. I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who has welcomed me and sent me DD suggestions. Really, your support and help - and, well, you - are what makes deviantART such a superb and flourishing community. I've said it before, and I probably will again, dA is my social networking site. I love this community and you. 
Now that I've gotten my feels out of the way (wait, here's one more 
... okay, now I'm done), let's get back to non-hug related business.
Halloween is fast approaching! What does that mean, besides oodles of candy and fun costumes? I'm looking for Halloween-ish Daily Deviation suggestions! Please send me any spooky, monstrous, or any Halloween-themed fan fiction you'd like me to feature. I look forward to seeing your suggestions! 
While we're talking about holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule and all the other Solstice holidays are also on their way. Please feel free to send me some suggestions for those as well. 
Thank you again, everyone! Always feel free to contact me about anything. I love to help, and I'm here to help you and our community! 
Daily Deviations
Here are the DDs I've featured this last month. 
Weekly Features
Every week, I feature a different fan fiction on my profile. Here are the ones I've featured this last month. 
Lonely Birthday
Steel Hiding Silk (Rescue Bots)He sat down in the chair, glancing around at the controls, the monitors. They glinted in the dark, unwatched until now, showing glimpses of a quiet town. He tipped the can to his lips and drank, enjoying the cold burn on his tongue. It wasn’t what he wanted to be drinking, but given how often he ended up having to work when he wasn’t on duty, he didn’t dare. Soda tasted better than most alcohol, anyway, not that he would ever admit it to anyone, especially not his sons. His preference for Dani’s fruity drinks, and Cody’s soda, would hopefully remain his secret. “Chief Burns? You are not scheduled to work for another four hours....
Catching Your ColorHe couldn't see; he couldn't feel. Wind tunneled around his skin, caressed and numbed every inch. He felt the ultimate pleasure of being unfeeling, of never touching another soul, but also the curse of never feeling, of never touching another soul. His eyes shot open to blue around him. What was he? The blackness consumed him, blue trailing farther and farther above him, until it disappeared, too. He knew he was simply Loki. It was his name. What that meant, who he was, he didn't know right now. In the weightlessness of black, nothing mattered except his name. Loki. A silver tear, the only color in the black void, fell up off of his fa...
Groups I'm Pimping!
Come visit us for quality stories and weekly flash fan fiction prompts!
An active Sonic the Hedgehog group that does features!
A group for Tolkien fanfiction and fanfiction illustration with monthly thematic contest called Teitho.
We do Disney based fan fiction and fic related art. Crossovers are fine.
Have a fan fiction group, or a group that accepts fan fiction? Link it below with a short description and I'll add it to next month's news. 
Fan Fiction Contests
I'd love to promote any fan fiction contests you have! Link it below! 
Fiendish Fan Fiction Contest - CONTEST OVER UPDATE! Our winners!
UPDATE 10/31/13 - Tomorrow, Nov. 1st, at midnight (11:59 PM PST) is the cutoff date to get your entries in! If you want to participate, get those stories submitted in before then! :onfire: Bring Out the Monsters! About this time every year, ghastly fiends slink out from their hidden lairs. Horrendous beasts come forth to feast. Our nightmares spring to life. It's time to imprison these horrors safely into story form in our Fiendish Fan Fiction Contest! The theme for this contest is "Monsters and Creatures." :zombie: Halloween is fast approaching, so let's celebrate by breaking out the pens and pencil...
Competition! [CLOSED]Competition time!Finally, I have finished preparing for the competition ^-^.
So the theme is: Halloween!
I’m going to let your imagination wander with this. It can be anything (it does have to be FanFiction though) as long as it fits with the theme.
These are the prizes:1st place:
100 points
a one shot request from Cookie-Fairy-Narnia
llama from Cookie-Fairy-Narnia
feature on the ‘weekly announcement’2nd place:
50 points
llama from Cookie-Fairy-Narnia
feature on the ‘weekly announcement’3rd place:
25 points
feature on the ‘weekly announcement’The deadline is October 22nd. Please favorite this journal so I know who's participa...
October 2013 challenge!:new: A little more than 2 DAYS left to participate!NOTE: this month's challenge is only open to literature submissions. Last month's challenge was only open to art submissions. :pumpkin: :star: October challenge prompt! :star: :pumpkin:For October, write about your favorite Transformer(s) participating in an October-associated event. For example, you could write about Transformer(s) going trick-or-treating, attending a Halloween party, going to a pumpkin patch, etc. You can include your OC's but make sure to include at least one canon Transformer in your story. Be creative!:target: READ the RULES! (If you ask a question that's answered in...
Wait ... the feels aren't over. 
Until next time! 
