The 2012 Gay Authors Readers' Choice Awards.
G.A. is proud to announce that you, the members, will be voting on your picks for the best stories and poems on GA and the 'net. Not only do you get to vote, you also get to nominate the candidates! Please either reply to this post or PM Conner with your picks for the following categories. Nominations are limited to three per category, per member. You don't need to pick something for each one, but every nomination counts! The five entries in each category with the most nominations will be on the voting ballot. Please be sure to specify the category to which you are nominating, the name of the work, and the author. If the story is in a non-GA category, a link to the story must be supplied. Nominations will open at 12:01 AM EST, January 6, 2012 and will be accepted until 12:00 AM EST on January 27, 2012. Please do not edit any original nomination posts. If you would like to make changes to your choices, please do so via PM. The winners will then be decided by a vote of the GA membership. Since the stories are not available to everyone, Premium Content stories are not eligible for nominations. The story must have been posted, in all or in part, during 2012.
Best Hosted Story
Best Promising Story
Best GA Stories
Best Anthology Story
Best Non-GA Story
Best Antagonist/Villain (From any 2012 GA story)
Best Protagonist/Hero (From any 2012 GA story)
Best Poem
Best Story by a New Anthology Author
Best GA Stories by a New Author
The King (or, if female, Queen) of Cliffhangers
Special Notes: Cliffhangers is open to any author here at GA, or from another site, as long as the Author is an active member of GA and a link is posted to the story.
Due to winning KOC two years in a row, C James is not eligible for nomination for 2012. If you have any questions, please post those in a separate thread, or PM Conner The fine print: Nominating your own work is allowed. To be eligible, all or part of the story must have been posted to Gay Authors during 2012. If the work in question is a non-GA story, then it must have been posted to the linked site within the above specified time frame. Authors will be limited to no more than three categories, and if nominated for more than three categories the author will choose which three. If an author has more than one work nominated in a specific category, the author will choose which story they wish to have compete. If the author does not choose, the administrators will do so based upon the number of nominations. The administrators of the awards reserve the right to use any method they choose to reduce the number of nominations in any given category for any reason. The administrators of the awards reserve the right to add to, remove from, or otherwise modify the rules at any time. The term administrators is used to refer to the Writers Support Team.