LGBTQ Award: Setting rules
Sep. 27th, 2009 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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So no one told me I'm fool, and it's already a good thing, and more or less the suggestions I received are in line with my first idea. Only one people replied that my categories are all erotica, and so they don't have books to submit: I actually went to re-read those categories, and where some of them are probably erotica (BDSM, Menages...), I don't think they are ALL erotica: Fantasy? Coming of Age? Silver Romance? are those erotica? I don't know, I'm not much for the idea to create erotica and non erotica categories, it would be probably difficult to set a range to part what it's in one or the other. But if you think it's better, let me know. So basically, let me summarize all.
First phase: an initial round to determine the candidatures. I will create a single post for each category, I will prepopulate each category with the titles I think will fit in them or that people will submit me, plus I will leave people in the comment section to add titles for the first week. Always in the comment section, people will vote the title. The same person can vote more books in the same category (obviously they can vote more books in different categories), only please don't vote ALL the books of the category. I have faith in you that you will not cheat (BTW I will check the IP address, you can vote even if you haven't a LJ account). The voting phase will be open for 1 month. At the end of the month I will draw the first 10 in each category.
ETA: To pre-fill the categories with the books you would like to see in them, just comment here or write to me in private. It's possible to candidate the same book in more categories if you think it will fit. Next Saturday I will post a blog for each category with the already prefilled titles and the voting phase 1 will start. I will accept late candidatures for the first week, and then I will close the categories.
Second phase: a poll for each category with the final 10 titles. 2 weeks to vote and at the end of the 2 weeks, the winner for each category. At this point we already have virtual winners, 1 for each category.
Third and last phase: a selected jury of readers (or authors without eligible books in the categories they have to read) will read 3 books out of the final list and give them a vote (range from 1 to 10): I hope to have enough jurors to have a book read by 3 different persons. A month to read all the books and at the end of the month we will have the final winner.
ETA: I'm accepting volunteers for being in the jury. Please leave a comment here or contact me with a private message.
And now the categories:
Fiction
1) Contemporary
2) Fantasy
3) Futuristic
4) Historical
5) Paranormal / Horror
6) Mystery / Thriller
7) Coming of Age / Young Adult
8) Comedy
Non Fiction
1) General Non Fiction
2) Biography / Memoir
3) History
4) Poetry
5) Travel
Special Category: New Author
All the categories are parted in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual and Queer. Please, help me in filling the categories other than G (my field), otherwise those categories will have problem to survive. For the 2009 LGBTQ Rainbow Awards I will consider ebooks or print books released between September 2008 (included) and August 2009 (Included). I'm not against the idea to consider also re-releases (maybe a previous ebook released in print, or viceversa; or a reprint of the same book from a different publisher).
At the end of the first week, we will reconsider the Categories: if a category has not enough votes or candidatures (I will set a minimum of 5 titles per categories), I will withdraw it from the competion, or at least will try to compact more categories in one.
I will save the names of all people who joined in one of the voting phase. For every voting phase there will be one (or more depending on the availability of prizes) "small" winner among the voting crow: a small award is, for example, a gift certificate from a publisher to download an ebook. At the end of all the voting phases, I will draw a reader winner of a gift basket with ebooks / gift certificates and print books donated by publishers / authors: the winner will have to directly contact the authors who donate print books (publishers and authors are totally free to choose to donate only ebooks). Please consider that, if the winner is not in the same country of the author, it's an own choice of the author to send a print book, he/she can choose to revert to an ebook. The publishers / online booksellers / review sites who already gave their disponibility are (in alphabetical order):
Please let me know if you think some of them should not be there, or if I forgot something.
Sooo: the first phase will start next week. October for candidating, November for skimming, December for selecting and January for reading the final books. First week of February the winner!
Again, I'm totally open to suggestion on all of above.
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Date: 2009-09-27 10:48 am (UTC)I think it might be a theme rather than a genre, ie: humourous paranormal or humourous contemporary.
And thank you so much for doing this. Trust Elisa to do something positive when the rest of us are just... discussing it. ;-D
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Date: 2009-09-27 01:12 pm (UTC)Maybe the problem of how to decide which category a book belongs in can be solved by letting the author decide whether they want to enter their book into Erotica or Romance?
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Date: 2009-09-27 02:01 pm (UTC)You may have mentioned this previously, but it might be as well to stipulate that any category that gets fewer than, say, 5 (or any number of your choice) nominations will not be included.
If you think it wouldn't diminish the appeal of the gift basket, I'd be happy to offer a lesbian erotica anthology.
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Date: 2009-09-27 02:07 pm (UTC)And yes, if a category has not enought candidates, I will compact it in another category, if possible, or delete it (I hope not). And thank you for the offer of an anthology, I will add your name to the list of the author who will contribute to the gift basket.
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Date: 2009-09-27 02:42 pm (UTC)I would be happy to give a hard copy or PDF of my poetry memoir The Memory Palace (which is largely about coming out as bisexual in Utah), if you are looking for these. :)
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Date: 2009-09-27 03:31 pm (UTC)http://alex-beecroft.livejournal.com/99884.html
To sum up so far: 1) possibly still too many categories 2) it might be a good idea to contact Jade Buchanan at the RWA Rainbow Writers group, who may be thinking of doing one of their own and 3) judging is going to need a lot of thinking about re how you keep authors unknown, and how you make sure that the judges are a good cross-section of the m/m community and not just straight female readers.
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Date: 2009-09-27 03:45 pm (UTC)And I have a serious question about the blind reading part.
Writers talk. A lot. Those who know us know what we're working on, what we have out, and what's coming out.
If FALSE COLORS was nominated or THE GHOST WORE YELLOW SOCKS, how on earth would your judges NOT know who these were by?
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Date: 2009-09-27 03:52 pm (UTC)And I will add you to the list of the authors.
Elisa
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Date: 2009-09-27 04:10 pm (UTC)I'll donate any title you think readers would like from MLR Press, and all or any of mine personally.
Laura Baumbach
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Date: 2009-09-27 04:14 pm (UTC)I will add you name to the list of authors, MLR Press is already in the list of publishers ;-)
Thank you so much for your generous offer.
Elisa
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Date: 2009-09-27 04:58 pm (UTC)Thanks Elisa, this is a great idea.
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Date: 2009-09-27 11:15 pm (UTC)I am happy to donate my book :)
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Date: 2009-09-28 10:32 am (UTC)I applaud your energy! I would be happy to donate ebooks for your prizes ... and I would love to enter in the "L" category. :)
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Date: 2009-09-28 10:44 am (UTC)Elisa
A little help with genres?
Date: 2009-09-28 04:09 pm (UTC)Brenna
Re: A little help with genres?
Date: 2009-09-28 05:40 pm (UTC)A Contemporary Romance goes with Contemporary. An Erotic Contemporary Romance goes with Contemporary Erotica. Same for Historical and Paranormal. No distinction between Erotica e Non Erotica for Futuristic and Fantasy.
> I would assume erotic romance plays with erotica?
Yes
> Does contemp romance play with contemp? Contemp erotica?
Contemporary Romance play with Contemporary. If it has heavy erotic elements, with Contemporary Erotica
> Since you don't mention romance, in any form, I wondered. Thanks.
Yes, I didn't distinct Mainstream and Romance, since it's difficult to say what it's Mainstream and what it's Romance. I'm still not sure for those Erotica categories, we will see if I have enough titles, otherwise I will compact them.
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Date: 2009-09-29 12:43 pm (UTC)Travel is an interesting category - I would've thought it could easily fall into any of the others.
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Date: 2009-09-29 02:35 pm (UTC)Travel was suggested but for now I don't have any candidatures for it ;-)
Elisa
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Date: 2009-09-29 09:54 pm (UTC)Great idea you have here, though I don't envy you the setting-up process.
Let me know if I can help. :)
~Tis
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