We have so many great Authors of the Month we had to start a 2nd page! These are the blurbs for the AOTMs from 2016 through 2018
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December: BigTuna
November: Dundie All-Star
October: xoxoxo
September: agian18
August: andtheivy
July: GodInThisChilis
June: Rach3l
May: shannanagin
April: time4moxie
March: Comfect
January: sillyrabbit518
December: kells8995
November: brokenloon
October: Dedeen
September: thirtypercent
August: ficklevillain
July: Talkative
June: JAMHands
May: Recorderalways
April: nqllisi
March: carbondalien
February: Cassandra Mulder
January: italianfood
December: PuffingNoise
November: Peskipiksi
October: Deedldee
September: watchthesky84
December: BigTuna
While she got her start on the archive during Season 5, BigTuna returned after a long absence this year to finish up her College AU Sociology 101 then followed up with several excellent fics. She has a string of great steamy one-shots like Jim and Pam working on phyicial communication Nonverbal and Jim growing a beard in Whisker Burn, some great in-progress multichapters like Letters, Numbers, and the Spaces Between and the things that made us you and me and, perhaps most importantly of all, she finally gave the archive the "Nice Morning, too" it deserved in the excellent Stay and Fight. We think you'll love these and all her 15 stories!
November: Dundie All-Star
Dundie All-Star has 7 stories to her name, mostly set during S4/5 based stories with Jim & Pam sweetly navigating their new romantic relationship. All 7 stories are worth a read, we suggest What Not To Wear - a different kind of crossover with Pam getting fashion advice, Philly Jam - an AU where Pam moves into Jim apartment building in the city, and Happiness (is..) - an Angela oneshot set around Moroccan Christmas.
October: xoxoxo
An "administrator emeritus", xoxoxo very much helped shape MTT into what it is today and additional wrote some great fics. And she wrote a lot of them, her 68 stories put her near the top of the Most Prolific Authors list. To start we recommend Beginnings and Moments (both JAMfic essentials), the funny A Mid-Diwali Night's Dream (in which Angela & Dwight and Kelly & Ryan switch partners, and not in the way you'd expect ;-) ), and Jellybean (a sweet and different kind of pregnancy fic).
September: agian18
Though only at MTT for less than at year, agian18 is already in the top 10 most prolific authors (by wordcount) thanks in large part to her epic Wake Me Up. Once you've checked that out make sure to read her other 7 fics, from the angsty Every Little Thing about what Jim and Pam's thoughts after Casino Night, to some great "Jim grows a beard" smut in Black and White, Chocolate and Creme to her current "Pam has amnesia" WIP Restart and of course anything else she writes!
August: andtheivy
If you're an andtheivy fan, you probably agree she did not get the accolades she deserved Dundie wise or jelly-bean wise so this is an opportunity to remedy that. All 18 of her stories are worth a read from her collection of steamy stories in the Let's Spend the Night Together series, her great college AU Three Man, a collection of moments through the years between Jim and Cece in Daddy's Girl and an AU with Jim and Pam together from the beginning in In My Life, I Love You More. So start with those fic and then read the rest!
July: GodInThisChilis
This July marks 12 years of MTT online which is fitting since GodInThisChilis is our 12th most favorited author! One thing that makes The Office so interesting is how it's filmed like a documentary, and no MTT author incorporated the documentary element better than GITC. Long before the underwhelming reveal of the camera crew, GITC wrote several stories about Jim & Pam interacting with the crew such as the fan-favorites Observer's Effect and Nobody's Business But Mine. But all 20 of her stories are worth a read from the Reality Reality TV series to the Beach Games aftermath in Like Sands Through the Hourglass to an ousider's take on JAM in I Was In the Chili's -- An Open Letter from God.
June: Rach3l
Less than a year ago Rach3l burst onto the MTT scene with the ridiculously hot Words Left Unsaid and since then has published 14 stories. Not one-shots either, but multi-chapter epics whose word-counts have added together to already make her the 5th* most prolific author on the archive! What's notable about Rach3l is the highly imaginative situations she throws our beloved Jim and Pam in. From a 1984-esque dystopia in Freedom First and it's sequel Safety First, a world where everyone has superpowers in Sin Aesthetics, and just a good old fashioned college AU in The music of my heart, or whatever, you'll be impressed how Rach3l can take the core JAM story and make it something different and fresh.If AUs aren't your thing, never fear, she also more canon-compliant stories like first date/first time fic Love Loyalty and Friendship or Pam meeting the parents in Irish Spring. Either way, you can't go wrong with any of her fics!
*since this was written she's moved down to 7th, meaning she needs to pop back in with a new epic and reclaim her 5th place crown!
May: shannanagin
For May we want to feature an overlooked author and shannanagin definitely did not get nearly the accolades she deserved in the early days of the archive! We hope you'll read all 7 of her fics and give them lots of jellybeans, you can start with her first, Glass which is a great moody look at Jim's thoughts during casino night, her final fic, this is the way that we love which is a very interesting and bittersweet look at Pam and Roy as their relationship came to an end, or her longest fic, Laugh This Life With Me, a canon-divergent epic with Jim and Pam finding their way to each other a bit sooner.
April: time4moxie
For April we set out to select an all-time fave author and time4moxie was a no-brainer! Not only is she in the Top 3 of most favorited authors and prolific authors (both in story and word counts), her fics Distance Learning and The Love Song of Squirrel McPants are both on the All-time most read, reviewed, favorites and jellybeaned lists. But don't feel limited to just those two classics, she's got 76 other stories well worth reading including House crossover House Call, satisfying S3 fix-it fic Breakdown, steamy Christmas themed My True Love Gave to Me and many, many more!
March: Comfect
Comfect has a lot of variety in his 9 stories but is perhaps most notable for his great AUs. Whether you enjoy a You've Got Mail-style chat-fic (Trivial Pursuits), a Chuck-style spy thriller (Asset Management) or an Austen-esque Regency romance (Paying Court), Comfect probably has something in his catalog for you to enjoy!
January: sillyrabbit519
sillyrabbit is author of 15 stories, mostly fluffy oneshots. All are a nice, quick read but here are a couple to get started:
All the Trees of the Field will Clap their Hands: Sometimes, still, he would wake up in the middle of the night just to make sure that she was okay, that there was no blood. And only when he had made sure of it, made sure that it was just her, clean and peaceful, did he close his eyes and fall back asleep.
Brighter Than Sunshine: Pam makes plans to make a declaration.
December: kells8995
If you like fluff, you'll like kells 8995, who in her 18 stories gave us plenty of it, both sweet (such as ground floor, which explored the alternative ending they filmed for The Job) and steamy (like Jim and Pam celebrating her return from new york in may the four winds call you home). That said, she also wrote some of the other office ladies, exploring the uneasy friendship Pam and Angela occasionally displayed in burning your bridges and Kelly visiting Ryan in prison in Visiting Hours. She also wrote a great "what-if?" story about Jim taking the Cumberland Mills job in Maryland in Every Time I Wind Up At Your Door.
November:brokenloon
In Brokenloon's 13 stories, he did a great job of filling in the gaps of the show, as well as exploring how things could have happened quicker for our fave pair with some little changes. You'll find a great range from silly and sweet with The Newlywed Show to more romance and angst in The Second Art Show. He was also one of the few from the early archive days to return in the final season with the emotional but also satisfying Dukes, a fic about Jim and Pam addressing their issues with Athlead. But really we just suggest reading and giving beans to all his fics!
October: Dedeen
Dedeen wrote many of her 21 stories in the later seasons which means she definitely did not get the attention she deserved, so AOTM is a small award to try to rectify that. From one-shot to epics, Dedeen's stories have a ton of heart and will remind you why you love Jim and Pam so much to begin with. All are well worth a read but here are a few to get started:
We're Not Broken Just Bent: Jim's thoughts during Paper Airplanes
Reverie: Jim relives some past angst
Set Fire To The Rain: A story of an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love
Loose Ends: Jim and Pam run into people from their past
September: thirtypercent
From multi-chapters to short drabbles, every one of thirtypercent's 12 stories are worth a read. Try these 3 to start:
Pinpoint: Karen's POV - She tries to pinpoint the moment when being near him went from making her feel bubbly and young to brittle and needy.
Shift: What if Jim never went to Stamford? An AU look at season 3.
Silent Victory: Fluffy fluff. Jim, uh, dances to a song.
August: ficklevillain
If you're a fan of drabbles but also of epic multichapters, then you must read ficklevillain's Turnabout's Fair Play, a story about Jim and Pam finding their way back to each other in 100 hundres-word chapters. (don't feel like all the clicking? log in and use the download epub feature!). We hope you enjoy this and ficklevillain's three other stories.
July: Talkative
This July marks MTT's 11th year online so we decided to give AOTM to our 11th most followed author, Talkative. Every one of Talkative's stories is a treat to read with impeccable dialogue and characterization and beautiful imagery that on the whole stays very close to canon. Honestly we recommend every story but we mods find ourselves putting Inside Jokes, Vocabulary, and Week's End & Week Days on many of our rec lists, so those are good places to begin.
June: JAMhands
JAMhands knows how to bring the romance as well as the steam to her stories. All 15 are worth a read, but to get started we recommend Taking a Chance: Office Olympics (rewriting the episode with, a-hem, sexier results), Billy Squier and the Bonus Gifts (what if Pam found the christmas card?) and My Myopia (a smuffy oneshot of what Jim thought of Pam's glasses in "Did I Stutter"). Happy reading!
May: Recorderalways
Author of 8 stories, Recorderalways liked to focus on the "near misses" of Jim and Pam in the early years and write alternate endings for epsiodes, with stories like Handkerchief (alt ending of Back from Vacation), Between and Underneath the Words (alt ending of Phyllis' Wedding) and Pacific (alt ending of Negotiation). We hope you enjoy their stories!
April: nqllisi
You have lots to read this month as nqllisi has a whopping 86 stories to her name, making her the 2nd most prolific author at the archive. Most of her fics are short and offer internal thoughts of characters during or in between episodes. And she returned last month to post the conclusion of her cute (if bittersweet) The Receptionist's New Clothes, which we feel deserves some kind of gold yogurt lid! We think you'll enjoy her stories!
March: carbondalien
Carbondalien has a lot of variety within her 26 stories. From one-shots to multi-chapter to one script style fic, we think you will enjoy her great characterization! Our mod ~A especially likes Does He Love You? and Here and There are Little Islands.
February: Cassandra Mulder
Author of 24 stories, Cassandra has lots of romantic oneshots. They're all worth a read but here one of our mods recommendations to get started:
Puppy love - simple and adorable but the dialogue is so perfectly them that this little scene is so easy to visualize.
All your fault- I just like this.
To the place where I belong - I like what is said between Jim and Karen and also between Jim and Pam. I also like the account of Jims day (interview day) and inner monologue, it seems quite realistic for him. Despite some Jam cliches this is a pretty good account of that day.
Wake up where you are - I just like this one too.
January: italianfood
We recommend italianfood for her very fleshed-out AU fics. She is very good at keeping the characters true to themselves even in such different situations, such as college AU Dunder Hall, This is Pam, plus her stories are very well balanced. We hope you will enjoy her stories!
December: PuffingNoise
You will have no shortage of stories to read this month as PuffingNoise is the author of a whopping 42 stories! Within their catalog you will a wide variety of stories, from sweet (First Dance) to angsty (Weather-Worn and Weary), from very much in-canon to believable alternative takes on unlike situations, like Fate: The Story of the Inexperience of Jim Halpert, or City Love. And with 42 stories, you have about 1.5 stories to read every day this month!
November: Peskipiksi
Author of 8 stories, Peskipiksi explored lot of "What if Pam wised up sooner?" type fics way back in the day, such as Three Minutes which wonders what if Pam went for that internship in "Boy and Girls" or A Grand Gesture which wonders what if she made such a gesture to Jim shortly after "Casino Night." Though most of their stories were written in season 3, we mods have to give Peskipiksi some kind of Dundie or gold yogurt lid for returning after 9 years with the very fun In Vino Veritas, answering the question "What if Pam and Jim got very drunk together in season 3?" We think you'll like the answer, as well as all their other fics!
October: Deedldee
The very talented Deedldee wrote 21 stories for MoreThanThat. Though she has her share of early season stories, she also wrote a fair number of "future fics" and stories centered around Jim & Pam's parenthood. We mods love all her stories, and added a ribbon to Indigo and Crimson, which beautifully fleshes out Jim and Pam's domestic life during Season 8 (arguably the best thing to come out of season 8!). We think you'll enjoy all her stories!
September: watchthesky84
Author of 8 stories, we mods feel watchthesky84 would have definitely gotten a lot more kudos had she been writing during the "peak" Office years. Her Jim/Pam one shots explore a lot of "what if" scenarios such as "what if Jim drove Pam home from the Dundies" in Beauty in the Breakdown and "what if they tried out that bouncy castle" in Moon Bounce. All her stories are romantic with some angst, some steam and a good amount of inner dialogue, we really think you'll enjoy them!