We now have an award!
UPDATE: VOTING IS NOW OPEN and is proceeding apace. Go to the fiction category here - http://bit.ly/b6YaDf -- to cast your vote for your favourite current weblit.
Nominated? Or just want to help promote the award?
Pick up your badges, buttons and banners here.
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Check off one item on the list of long-term plans. Elizabeth Barrette of Hypatia's Hoard of Reviews and Crowdfunded Creativity on LiveJournal, with some help from her friends, has founded the Rose and Bay Award.
I quote:
I'm tired of awards not counting crowdfunded projects. I've seen all this before; it's the same old nonsense that went on when electronic publication began. It wasn't "real" publishing and nobody wanted it in their awards, yada yada yada. I don't feel like waiting around another ten or twelve years while people look for a clue machine and a quarter to put in it.
Word.
The Rose and Bay is a democratic rather than judged award. Voting will take place in February. Awards will be given in five categories: Art, Fiction, Poetry, Other (for projects that either don't fall into the above categories, or span them) and Patron (to recognize readers/viewers who have made contributions to writers/artists in one or more forms).
To nominate weblit works under the fiction category go here.
UPDATE: Yesterday MCA Hogarth aka Haikujaguar did a beautiful little black pen & ink design for a logo for the award.
See me having fun with it here.
Here's the fine print:
The submissions have to be "crowdfunded", which means that you can't give away your weblit/webfic for free. You have to sell at least part of it.
Not only that, but to BE nominated, you must have had a hand in supporting some other weblit/webfic thing that's been sold. And by support, I'm guessing that buying an ish here or there doesn't count.
It seems unnecessarily restrictive like it's an award for insiders, but I guess most things in the weblit/webfic world are.
Not only that, but to BE nominated, you must have had a hand in supporting some other weblit/webfic thing that's been sold. And by support, I'm guessing that buying an ish here or there doesn't count.
The first part is just not true. As long as you accept donations, you qualify--I asked. In fact, at least part of the work has to be available for free for the voting.
I'm less certain about the second. Where are you getting that? There's an award for patrons, but it's a separate category, like fiction is separate.
The award guidelines specifically state that "crowdfunded" means your support comes from your audience and that you *give away* at least some of your content, not that you sell it. If you sold all of it, you wouldn't qualify. You have it backwards, I fear.
I'm still confused as to whether or not Refuge of Delayed Souls qualifies for a nomination?
Everything on the site is free, there's no donate button but the story can be purchased as an ebook if readers would like to support me that way.
@Miladysa, ask Ysabet - she says people are welcome to. I think you qualify for the fact of selling eBooks. But ask.
Can I say I'm really glad with the Patron Option? I think each of you authors should go and nominate your strongest supporters as a way for thanks, it will only make them support you more!
I' also completely baffled, who I should nominate... Think Think Think...
Oh god, so many of my readers should be nominated for that award.
Rose and Bay Award badges, buttons and banners now available -- see updated topic above or click here.
Update: the weblit nominations are coming in and the excitement is palpable over on the relevant threads. Logo creation/discussion is in process and Shirley secured the donation of award plaques from a dear long-time friend of hers (and mine).
Logo discussion here.
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