2008 Terry Award Nominations
Okay people. I'm a little concerned. We're half way through the nominations period and I've only received nominations from two people. Please consider sending in your nominations before the nominations end on Jan. 14th. There are a lot of excellent stories here that deserve recognition.
Access to the rules, award categories and story lists can be obtained by the Contests link in the BigCloset Topshelf header.
Remember that nominations must be done manually. There is no voting web page. To make things easier, try copying and pasting the award category list to a text file and use it as a reminder for all the categories when you browse the story lists. Okay? You can then use the same text file to add your nominated stories by copying and pasting from the story lists.
Thanks! :)
- Terry
The 2008 Terry Awards - Award Categories
* Best sweet story of the year
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* Best strange or horror story of the year
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* best romance story of the year
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* Best real world crossdressing or transition story of the year
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* Best science fiction or fantasy story of the year
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* Best written story of the year
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* Best main character of the year
* Best supporting character of the year
* Best villain character of the year
Series and serials are defined as any story marked as a serial chapter or an unfinished story.
The 2008 Terry Awards - Rules
Only members of Bigcloset Topshelf (BCTS) are eligible to vote.
Email addresses for voting:
[email protected]
BCTS account (send to terrynaut)
You can also use my BCTS username (terrynaut) if you prefer.
IMPORTANT: When you vote using the [email protected] address, you must include your BCTS username to validate your vote. In the case of duplicate votes for a particular username, your chosen vote will be verified by private message using BCTS.
For a story to be eligible, it must be transgender fiction on BCTS. It also has to be posted on BCTS sometime during the year for which you're voting. For all multi-part stories (complete and unfinished stories), at least one chapter must be posted sometime during the year for which you're voting.
A list of eligible stories will be posted.
You don't have to vote for all categories and you can vote for the same story in multiple categories.
You can change your mind and vote again but only one of your votes will count. The correct choices will be verified as mentioned in the IMPORTANT note above.
A story category has to have at least 50 different people voting for it, otherwise the category won't be declared to have a winner.
Voting will be done in two phases. The first phase is the nomination process to narrow the number of choices. The second phase is voting to select winners.
Voting for story nominations begins on January 1, 2009 and will end at midnight (PST) on January 14, 2009. The top 5 vote getters for each category will then be tabulated and displayed in a blog sometime on January 17, 2009.
Voting for award winners begins on January 17, 2009 and will end at midnight (PST) on January 31, 2009. The results will be tabulated and displayed in a blog as soon as possible after that date. Perhaps Erin can post the results more officially somewhere after I post them.
Prizes:
Sorry. There will be no monetary prizes. If your story wins an award, you simply get the satisfaction and notoriety that comes from winning. I think that's good enough. :)
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Voting for the 2008 Terry Awards has ended.
This contest didn't work out for selecting individual winners but there will be future nominations for Best Story Lists. Keep an eye out for them. You never know when they'll pop up.
19 people had voted but that isn't nearly enough for a fair contest. No winners will be posted. I'm very sorry.
Thank you to all who have voted and thanks again to those who offered me sage advice to help with the awards. I really appreciate it.
- Terry