Okay... Change of plans. I was informed by SOL Admins that my survey was not a story and so couldn't be posted as a story... so I had to figure out a way to do this in blog posts that don't support table structure! This is the best I could do and it looks... readable... in preview. Let's hope you think so too.
There are three sections here, Readers' Favorite Stories, Readers' Favorite Authors and Readers' Favorite Universe/Series
First, the favorite Stories!
STORY AUTHOR VOTES
aftermath Al Steiner 2
Doing It All Over Al Steiner 2
Living Next Door to Heaven Aroslav 2
Ghost Dual_Writer 2
Magestic gwresearch 2
Unforgettable Weeks Jay Cantrell 2
Hunter Lazlo Zalezac 2
A Stitch in Time Marsh Alien 2
The Collar Around the Heart Old Softy 2
A Fresh Start RLFJ 2
The Grim Reaper RLFJ 2
Arlene and Jeff RoustWriter 2
Sparks black coffee 1
Concordia A.A. Nemo 1
A Perfect World Al Steiner 1
Gateway - What Lies Beyond Blind Man 1
A New Past Charlie Foxtrot 1
Mayhem colt45 1
An unknown attraction Crumbly_Writer 1
Dance of a Lifetime Don Lockwood 1
Rewind Don Lockwood 1
Finding a place Don Lockwood 1
Lost and found Douglas Fox 1
Always a Marine Ernst Bywater 1
Survivor Ernst Bywater 1
Burr (Series) Fable 1
Oil of Roses Fillmore 1
Cost of Time Gina Marie Wylie 1
K2 gwresearch 1
The Preacher Man Hammingbyrd7 1
I will visit her grave Harrison0978 1
Remittance Man Howard Faxon 1
A Toast in an Empty Bar Jay Cantrell 1
Learning Curves Jay Cantrell 1
Runaway Train Jay Cantrell 1
Unending Night Jay Cantrell 1
Twice Lucky Jay Reynolds 1
POW Prisoner of the Widows Joe_J 1
Millionaire Next DoorLazlo Zalezac 1
Service Society Lazlo Zalezac 1
Earth's Core Lonahora 1
Going Fishing Lordshipmayhem 1
The Bad Bet Lubrican 1
The Hermit of Scarecrow Valley Lubrican 1
What Feats He Did That Day Marsh Alien 1
Daddy's day Mendon Fishers 1
New Federation Monbade 1
Second Chance Number 7 1
Lick 'N Tiff Rache 1
Tycoon Raven Soule 1
Human Man Refusenik 1
Generations RLFJ 1
Black Rabbit Robberhands 1
Darkness and Light Robberhands 1
Opus One Ryan Sylander 1
Adventures of Me and Martha Jane Santos J. Romeo 1
Banner Year shrink42 1
Hindsight 20/20 SmokingDriver 1
A Pearl in the Snow Stultus 1
Three Sqaure Meals Tefler 1
Missions terriblethom 1
Abby Texrep 1
She's Pregnant! Thinking Horndog 1
Picking up the pieces Wes Boyd 1
The Trailer Park Wizard 1
My Journey Xalir 1
Some people wrote in saying, "I love this story, but you can't leave out the three/fifteen/lots other stories in this universe!" and I agree. Some of the story series are too much a group for you to single out a single piece so…
Next is the Readers' Favorite Universe
Universe AUTHOR VOTES
Richard Jackson stories Banadin 6
Florida Friends Dual Writer 6
Smart Girls Universe Oyster50 6
Stupid Boy G_Younger 4
Lady in Red Harddaysnight 3
Anthony Carter Universe Argon 2
Bec Series BarBar 3
The Defenseman ColdCreek 2
John Carter/Druid series Lazlo Zalezac 2
Swarm Cycle Universe Thinking Horndog 2
Oridnary Sex Live series Bluedragon 2
Chaos Universe EzzyB 1
Wagons Ho! Universe LazLong 1
A Well-Lived Life Michael Loucks 1
Summer Camp series Nick Scipio 1
Lost Empire series Pars001 1
Slave Girl Uncle Jim 1
Magic Ink Uncle Jim 1
Some couldn't narrow it down to one story, instead they sent me their favorite author. As you can see, while there are some that are favored more than others (Don't tell Jay, we don't want him getting a swelled head!) the choices were almost as varied as the story list.
Last, but certainly not least, the Readers' Favorite Authors!
Author Votes
Jay Cantrell 12
Dual Writer 7
RLFJ 6
Banadin 5
Ernest Bywater 5
G_Younger 5
Al Steiner 5
Argon 4
Oyster50 4
Lazlo Zalezac 4
Black Randi 3
Don Lockwood 3
Michael Loucks 3
Aroslav 2
Aubie56 2
Blind Man 2
FantasyLover 2
gwresearch 2
Harddaysnight 2
Joe_J 2
Lubrican 2
Pars001 2
refusenik 2
Robberhands 2
RoustWriter 2
Tefler 2
Thinking Horndog 2
EzzyB 2
Hammingbyrd7 2
A.A. Nemo 1
AL-Canadian 1
Always Raining 1
Auguy86 1
autofocus 1
BarBar 1
black coffee 1
Charlie Foxtrot 1
cmsix 1
Coaster2 1
ColdCreek 1
colt45 1
Crumbly_Writer 1
Dead Writer 1
Douglas Fox 1
Fable 1
Feral Lady 1
Fillmore 1
Gina Marie Wylie 1
Harrison0978 1
Howard Faxon 1
Jay Reynolds 1
JRyter 1
Lonahora 1
Lordshipmayhem 1
Lumpy 1
Marsh Alien 1
MattHHelm 1
Micheal Thomas 1
Monbade 1
Nick Scipio 1
Number 7 1
Old Man with a Pen 1
Old Softy 1
Phil Brown 1
PuffDragon 1
qhml 1
Rache 1
Raven Soule 1
Ryan Sylander 1
Santos J. Romeo 1
Scotland the Brave 1
shrink42 1
SmokingDriver 1
Stultus 1
terriblethom 1
Texrep 1
Uncle Jim 1
Wes Boyd 1
Wizard 1
Woodmanone 1
Xalir 1
Zoras 1
And so ends the First Annual, Totally Biased, Unscheduled Tally of Talent Survey (FATBUTTS ®)!!
I hope you can find some new favorite stories among those submitted, maybe even a new unread author or even a new Universe to get lost in.
Thanks to everyone for participating, this was both fun AND educational!
*This started as a way for me to find new stories to read, but others expressed an interest in seeing the results.
**No, none of my choices of favorites were included unless submitted by someone else and my name was not under consideration in the author category.