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. :)