October's winner revealed...and an announcement

Thank you to the people who voted, this month's winner is Shout by smilelikey0umeanit.

In other news, I've made the decision to stop running this competition, basically because only a handful of people voted this time and I feel bad for nagging everyone when voting is about to close. So yeah, sorry. If there's ever the demand to start running it again then I will but stories are growing increasingly few and far between, as are votes, so it's probably best to take a break.

Thanks to everyone who has taken part in the previous competitions, I was surprised at the positive response and I hope I've been able to bring a little fun into the fandom.

Eden x

(Also can I just take the opportunity to say, if you read a fanfiction and you enjoy it, please please please can you just take the time to review it? In a fandom as small as the New Tricks one, just a few kind words can really boost people's confidence in their writing and perhaps encourage them to share more wonderful stories with us all.)

October fanfiction of the month

It's that time again! Here are this month's entries, I'm sure you know the drill by now!

Demons by spooksfan08

The Hunt For Justice by BethyBoo97

New Order by blakes8th

The Name Game by smilelikey0umeanit

Sweet Apology by blakes8th

The Minder by smilelikey0umeanit

Shout by smilelikey0umeanit

Sorry so many of them are written by me, the archive was looking pretty bare this month so I thought I'd provide you all with a bit more choice.

Voting will close on Friday 7th November.

Thanks for taking part!

Eden x

September's Fic of the Month- Winner Revealed

Hello, Thank you to everyone one who voted this month I can now announce the winner of September's fic of the month.

It was very close between too but the winner is.......


A Letter to Gerry by Geezworld234

Me I know, I can assure you I didn't rig it. Thanks to everyone who voted for me.

It was really close between mine and The Lanes are on the Case by Jennyyg who only just came second, so well done Jenny!

Thank you to everyone who voted and remember to submit your entries to be in with a chance of being voted for in October's fic of the month!

Gee x

September's fic of the month

Hello, Gee here!

As Eden is so busy with her college work she as asked me to lend a hand and help run the fandom awards.

So as you know it is the first of the month and time to decide which fic you enjoyed the most during september.

The choices are:

Covering Tracks by smilelikey0umeanit

The Lanes are on the Case by Jennyyg

Returned by Jennyyg

Birthday by Jessie Marsh

Coffee Chat by Jennyyg

A Letter to Gerry by Geezworld234

Saviours by Smilelikey0umeanit

The Woman Who Has Everything by Smilelikey0umeanit

Confession Time by aylagrace93

Beginnings and Ends by Emmel1118

Sandra's Daughters by Kayleighjanebeaton

To vote either tweet me @geezworld234, drop me a message on ff.net, email me: crazygee@hotmail.co.uk or if you are lucky enough to have me on facebook or my number I am contactable via those.

Voting will close a week today and don't forget you can now enter October's fic of the month.

Good luck! Gee :) x

August's fic of the month winner!

Firstly, thank you everyone for taking part, both by submitting so many wonderful stories and by voting for your favourite.

It was extremely close this month so I'm pleased to announce that we have joint winners-
Gerry's Note by jennyyg and whispers by Emmel1118.

Well done to both our winners for their brilliant fanfiction, hopefully we will be reading more from them in the future. Don't forget to get your entries in for September's competition too!

Thanks again :)

Eden x

Entries for August's fanfiction of the month

At first I thought I'd picked the wrong month to try this out with everyone being on holiday etc but we've had a surge of wonderful new fics towards the end of the month thanks to the new series so there is lots to choose from!

I've decided not to make writers choose which one of their fics to enter into the competition as nobody has published more than three this month so it's reasonably fair. 

Below is the list of fics you can vote for, please just choose one and DM/Facebook/email/PM me your vote using the same contact details as last time. 

Our Goodbye by smilelikey0umeanit

Golf Ends On The 19th Hole by geezworld234

Gerry's Note by jennyyg

One Month Out Of Time by BethyBoo97

Witch's Brew by blakes8th

A Week in the Life by smilelikey0umeanit

Tears of a Clown by blakes8th

New Starts by blakes8th

We're On An Investigation! by LauraLovesNT

The Art of Interrogation by smilelikey0umeanit

Collision by kates1304

A Visitor in a Thunderstorm by NicholasLyndhurstFan

Whispers by Emmel1118

Surprise Surprised by Elen421

An Ice Bucket of New Tricks by NicholasLyndhurstFan
Tsunami of the Heart by BethyBoo97
Sandra's Daughters by kayleighjaynebeaton

So...voting is now open!

Thank you for taking part and I will try my best to release the winner as soon as possible!

Eden x

Fanfiction of the month- August

Hello all! So next month is going to be the very first fanfiction of the month competition. It's a bit of an experiment so hopefully it will work and if not I will try to fix it for next time.

How it's going to work is...

• I will make a list of all the fics that have been published on the archive in August. This will only include fics that have actually been started in August, not multi-chapter ones that have been started previously and are ongoing.
• If a writer publishes more than one fic in August I will ask them to choose one to go on a shortlist (so people aren't favoured for the quantity of stories over the quality)
• I will post the shortlist on here, and then you can select your chosen fic of the month from it.

I think that is fairly simple so we will give it a shot! Fingers crossed we can stop the metaphorical tumbleweed floating around the archive and liven it up a bit with some fantastic stories :)

Eden x

And the winners are...

Thank you all for taking the time to make your nominations and I hope you have enjoyed it! So, without further ado, let me announce the winners…

1. Most dedicated fan- Laura (by an overwhelming majority, congratulations!)

2. Best newcomer to the fandom- Jenny (again by a huge majority, well done!)

3. Best veteran of the fandom- Gee, Jen (DSISandraPullman39) and Beth (very deserving joint winners in a very close category)

4. Potential best-selling author- Eden (thank you!)

5. Nicest person in the fandom- Gee (as I predicted! Another huge majority so very well done!)

6. Best overall contribution to the fandom- Beth (a much deserved award, won by a mile!)

7. Writer who best portrays the characters- Eden (thank you again!)

8. Favourite writer overall- Eden (this is starting to look like I've doctored the results now, I promise I haven’t! It was an exceptionally close call between me, Laura, Beth and Gee so thank you everyone!)

9. Most original/imaginative fanfiction ideas- Gee (another overwhelming majority!)

10. Favourite fanfiction overall- ‘Changes’ by Jen and ‘Just This’ by Jessie Marsh are our joint winners overall but ‘Recipe for Disaster’ by i-must-go-first came an extremely close second place.

Other brilliant fics that people voted for were…

‘Fifteen Minutes of Fame’ and ‘I Just Haven’t Met You Yet?’ by Gee

‘Waking With You’ by Jessie Marsh

‘Who Is She?’ by Beth

‘Journey To Parenthood’ by Laura

‘Same Time, Next Week’ by i-must-go first.

So there we go! You can probably tell by the amount of exclamation marks in this that I have really enjoyed organising these awards, so much so that I’m thinking of doing more if everyone is up for it, perhaps a ‘fic of the month’ award to liven up the archive a little? And of course I will do this again around the same time next year. If you have any ideas for more awards please let me know :)

Congratulations to the winners and thank you again for participating!

Eden x

Welcome to the New Tricks fandom awards!

Firstly, thank you all for agreeing to take part. Organising this is helping to cure my boredom and I really enjoy doing things like this so thanks, I really appreciate it J

So, basically, for each of the ten categories below, please send me the name of the person who you would like to nominate and the corresponding number. 

You can contact me via DM on Twitter (@tk_eden), Facebook (Eden Whitehead) or email if you prefer (edenwhitehead@outlook.com)

You can vote for anyone in the fandom but please don’t vote for yourself, obviously. Try to avoid just voting for someone purely because they’re your friend, if possible- after all, this isn't a popularity contest.

Other than that, there aren’t really any rules, so here we go with the categories:

1. Most dedicated fan
2.  Best newcomer to the fandom
3.  Best veteran of the fandom
4.  Potential best-selling author
5.  Nicest person in the fandom
6.  Best overall contribution to the fandom
7. Writer who best portrays the characters
8. Favourite writer overall
9. Most original/imaginative fanfiction ideas
10. Favourite overall fanfiction (I’m aware that there is hundreds to choose from for this so I will probably compile a list if there’s no fics with a majority)

Of course all voting will be kept totally anonymous and I will release the winners once I’ve counted all the votes. There’s no prizes to speak of, just pride! Equally, please don’t feel disheartened if you don’t win, it’s just a bit of fun J

If you’re sat reading this like ‘why haven’t I been asked to take part?!’ then I’m so sorry for missing you out and you are more than welcome to send me your votes!

All that’s left to say is…let the voting commence! J

Eden x