We have calculated the votes and assembled the slate of nominees, so here we go: voting will now commence for the first annual BWAHA Awards - Bitchery Writing Award for Hellagood Authors.
We had so many votes for Paranormal that we had to split the category - so now we have ‘Best Paranormal: Fantasy/SF/Other Worlds Romance,’ and ‘Best Paranormal: Vampires, Werewolves, and the Supernatural.’ Further, in categories where we had many submissions, we had to drop those that only garnered one nomination.
Please email your votes to AND by midnight, PDT, Sunday, April 16, 2006.
Please vote once for each category, and thanks very much for helping us create our new annual awards!
And without further ado, or without any ado at all.... here are your nominees!
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In our discussion of the RITA nominations, many a Bitchery member remarked on the lack of award category for erotica, and the difficulty of creating such an award that accurately judges erotica, romantica, and the genre as a whole.
Perhaps that difficulty might come as much from RWA’s documented hesitancy to welcome erotica alonside its other genres, but it is certainly a difficult category to judge against the traditional structure of romance - as erotica does its best to bust through established traditions.
That said, a few suggested that the entire process of nomination and submission was a challenge, and that the RITA categories yielded a mix of disparate genres under one heading.
So, we figured, we should certainly stick OUR noses into the awards arena. So we hereby create The Most Important Writing Award Ever: the Smart Bitch Book Awards, henceforth known as The BWAHA: The Bitchery Writing Award for Hellagood Authors.
Here’s the deal: we’ll accept nominations in the following categories, and the top 5 nominated books in each category will make the finals.
Finalists will be voted on by the Bitchery, with winners announced with great fanfare (think ManTitty. Lots of ManTitty.) and we’ll give out fabulous three-dimensional prizes possessing of actual matter. Or gift certificates. Or both!
Nominations will be accepted until Tuesday, April 4, 2006.
Books eligible for nomination must have a publication date of 2005.
Finalists will be announced that week, and voting on the finalists will be open for a one week period.
One set of nominations per person, and one vote per person.
This will be an annual event, a writer/reader nominated and writer/reader voted award, and we expect The BWAHA will be THE award to brag about.
Please, send your nominations to and by Tuesday, April 4.
And now, on to the categories!
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