Mariah, if you were given a month, which of your stories would be featured? I'm asking because, looking at your profile, all but one of your stories are incomplete and under twenty chapters. The only one that's finished is a short story. It's really easier to discuss stories that are complete, near complete, or long enough to have a lot to talk about, even if they're not that close to being finished.
Also, I want to point out that in the 48 months the Featured Story thing has been going on, 48 different authors have been featured (sometimes two in a month when you look at the collaborations that have been featured). No one has been featured more than twice, and it was only in the last three months of last year that anyone got a second turn, usually 2 or 3 years after their original turn. It's not like Mare is just rotating through a few of her favorite authors. It's also not like she just scrolls through the list of all the writers on AC and picks a name at random. Everyone who has been featured is either a regular on the forum or has been heavily requested, and many of the featured authors have been both.
If you continue to be active on the forum, and if you continue to update and actually finish some of your stories so that people will be able to discuss them, you will be featured at some point. That's all it takes. I'm not sure why it's so difficult to understand...