Nominations are Open

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Nominations for The Exchange at Fic Corner are open on Ao3. You can nominate up to four fandoms and up to five characters.

To make this easier on your mod, remember that book titles are canonized in AO3 as Title - Author or in the case of multiple authors, Title - Various Authors. If you're nominating a book or book series that is also a tv show/cartoon/board game/movie/podcast/etc., I WILL assume you mean the book version, but there will be much tearing of hair in the process, so the more specific you can be, the happier I will be.

What constitutes an eligible fandom?
The guidelines for an eligible kids' or YA book fandom

• A fandom that was published in book format by a traditional publisher (small press/eBook only is okay, self-published is not unless it was at some point also published traditionally)
• A fandom that was marketed for children's or teens at some point. Books that have had editions marketed for both adults and teens (Ender's Game, for example) are eligible as are books that were published for adults in one country and for teens (or children) in another.
• Any level is eligible, from picture books to edgy teen novels.
• Graphic novels/manga/bande dessinée/manhwa, etc. are all eligible as long as they fit the other criteria. Monthly comic issues that have not been collected in book form are not.
• Fandoms do not have to be currently in print to be eligible.
• Fandoms may be in any language and do not have to have a published English translation. However, this exchange will be run in English, so the less accessible your fandom is, the less likely you will find a match.
• Non-fiction fandoms may be accepted on a case by case basis at the discretion of the moderator.
• RPF is not allowed except in the context of a book fandom in which real people are characters, such as the multitude of novels about 16th century girls who dress as boys and run off to act in Shakespeare's plays.
• Tie-in novels/series are eligible if they are telling new and distinct stories from the source. Direct novelisations of movies or television are not eligible.
• Size of fandom is not a criteria. Harry Potter and Twilight are eligible, as are tiny fandoms that don't exist on AO3 yet.

A few questions about eligibility that came up in the comments of previous posts

• Sub-series are allowed, so you could nominate the Trickster series instead of Tortall and that would be accepted. However, single book nominations will be discarded in favor of series/sub-series, going by the smallest possible series (ie, Little Men would be accepted as the Little Women series), for ease of matching. If you only want the adventures of Nat, Dan and Bess, you'll have the option of limiting by character in your requests and offers.
• Kids'/Teen spin-off series of adult series will be allowed as long as you nominate the eligible series. The adult series will be rejected.
• GNs aimed at kids are allowed, as are GNs clearly published for teens. Everything else will be on a case by case basis, but mainstream superheroes will only be eligible in a version specifically published for kids/teens as mainstream comics do not have a clear dividing line. This does not affect manga, as age ranges are usually marked on the English translations.
• If a book or graphic novel will be published by the end of September, it is eligible. This includes comics that have yet to be collected into a graphic novel and those among you who have access to prepublication copies of books. Do remember that the easier it is to get one's hands on canon for review, the more likely people will offer/request it.
• Nominations/requests/offers do not have to be things YOU personally read at the appropriate age. As long as they are aimed at the target age range, they are eligible.


Feel free to use the comments to plan nominations, one book/series per thread. Please put title - author in the subject field for ease in coordinating.