How to create an Award

[reviews_and_ramblings]

It's all day that I'm thinking and reading posts and thinking again. Actually I have always pondered the idea to create an award, but I have always thought, who am I to do that? And now I'm thinking that I'm not alone, am I? I have a lot of friends, readers and authors, and so if I give a space, the Awards could be yours not mine. Only I have nothing to give to the winner if not the a virtual price, you are the winner of the LGBT Award of a little slash/gay/lesbian/romance/whatever online community. And here start one of the problem, I read gay fiction, but not lesbian fiction at all, so I really need your help, friendslist or anonymous commenters.

I have 40 tags among genres and themes, I can create 40 posts for 40 categories and screen the comments. I can open the candidatures for each category and after a month, close the posts and draw the first 10 of each category. I can then open 40 polls for each category and draw the winner for each of them. I can then open 5 polls with 8 titles mixed together and draw the final 5 titles. Finally the last poll, 5 titles from which drawing the all together winner.

As I said, I have nothing to give to the winner if not a virtual award, but to entice people to comment and vote on the polls, I can probably ask to the authors/publishers if they are willing to donate an ebook copy of the final 40 titles and then draw one name among who voted as winner of the full 40 ebooks. If I find people willing to read 5 books in a month, we can also think to not create a poll for the last 5 titles, but to have a jury to read them and give a reasoned vote. Even more of 5, I don't know, 10?

We can consider print books and ebooks, maybe released from August 2008 to August 2009. I will not ask the gender of the author or its sexual orientation ;-)

Starting to setting things --> http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/799266.html

Comments

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

This is a brilliant idea, Elisa! You're a star :) And I would be very happy to enter, and to donate a book for the prize. (I think 40 ebooks is a fabulous prize!)

I'm also happy to donate any graphics making abilities I might have to make buttons and banners for people's websites. Eg, a banner for the actual competition and "Rolle Award semi-finalist", "Winner of the Rolle award for (whatever category)" etc buttons which could be awarded to people to put on their websites, if you think that's a good idea.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

It's a marvelous idea Alex, I wanted so much to ask help for that but didn't want to bother my friend who has the ability / skill to do that. I still haven't decided on the name of the award ;-) I don't want to call it a name too much bonded to my LJ, I would really wish for it to be more a readers award than "mine". Do you have any suggestion? And for the semifinalist or finalist banner we have time, at least 1 month and half. And I'm adding you to the authors list who will donate an ebook. Elisa

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

Well, the "Rainbow Awards" is what comes to mind at once, but I don't know whether that would be treading on the toes of the Rainbow Writers chapter of the RWA. I don't suppose they own the symbol, any more than the LLA own the Lambda symbol.

I like to do graphics, so that would be a pleasure for me :)

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I like Rainbow Awards. Let's call them that for now :-) Elisa