Hi there!
In this last year, I started a website called Verve Literary Awards. Blog readers were given the opportunity to vote in four categories for their favorite books. Three Holy World members won in Series, Independently Published, and Wild Card, respectively.
About a month ago, I had some HWers tell me that I should continue the Verve Awards again.
I'm a little ambivalent. I had a lot of volunteers for that project, and none of them helped out very much, except for a review. If I'm to do it again, I want to change the concept, categories, and how it all works. I'd also like to have more interesting content on the blog, and more personal reviews. But I can't do all that and respond to emails, search out good books to review, and keep up my own life as well.
Upon hearing this, I was given the go-ahead (quite a while ago
) to ask for help here. I'm not asking for much, even if it's just some initial brainstorming and an hour of participation a month. You don't even have to be an official volunteer. But I want things to be a little more of a group project, instead of just me grasping at straws.
In 2013 I was thinking about focusing on Indie fiction, small imprint, and audiobooks. No matter what I want to stick to the concept of Realistic fiction, even if I have to review a few 'fantasy' books (apparently I'm an evil stick in the mud because I am not one who reads in that genre often, got a lot of ugly emails about that
).
In closing, I'd like to beg on my knees one more time for someone to be my blog slave and post really eloquent things and spell better than me. And talk about books.
Thank you,
Jess
If even a few people just did a little bit, I'd be able to accomplish the necessary goals to make it work. This isn't a guilt trip, just thought I'd clear that up a bit. 