The Rose and Bay Awards are for excellence in crowdfunded creativity. If you haven't heard of them,
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If you have a moment, go check out the nominees and vote! Each voting page has a link to the nominating page, and there's links to everything.

http://crowdfunding.livejournal.com/555687.html

Even if you don't vote, you'll find some cool stuff.

Last day to nominate Rose and Bay awards: http://crowdfunding.livejournal.com/499385.html

EMG-Zine is eligible for 'Other', 'Poetry', 'Fiction' and 'Art' (though most strongly in the first category)

Torn World is eligible for 'Other', 'Fiction' and 'Art' (not poetry!)  (website is www. ( Read more... )

The Rose and Bay Awards were created to honor excellence in crowd-funded projects. The following post includes more information about the awards and links to the pages where you can nominate your favorites: http://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/2139030.html

I am very pleased to see that  ellenmillion's Sketchfest has been nominated in the Art category, and
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The final round is up, over here: http://jongibbs.livejournal.com/183547.html You can go vote for my title (Monster Teeth and Art Glass) or any of the others ( Read more... )

in the runoff poll for the Rose and Bay fiction award, you need to do it right away--the poll closes sometime today! Probably well before Midnight CST, since the original poll closed earlier than I expected; I'm not sure what time zone esseme  is in!

The final poll for the 2011 Rose and Bay Fiction Award is here!

I'm very proud that both Fireborn and the ( Read more... )

I want to thank the people who have voted for my projects.  You honor me.


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The Rose and Bay Awards were founded to honor excellence in crowdfunded projects. There are many cool projects nominated, and now's a great chance to sample something new ( Read more... )

I've mostly missed the internets over the last--gosh, nearly a week! I've headed in to work, then back here, and fallen asleep on the couch before I read a half-dozen posts or even play my dumb facebook clicky-games. I think I've seen more Kleenexes than web-pages over the last few days.

I inadvertently complicated the problem by not reading the ( Read more... )

The Rose and Bay awards are open for nomination. You can nominate your favorite creative crowdfunded projects for this award. Here is a post linking to each nomination page (fiction, art, poetry, webcomics, other creative projects, and donors are this year's categories).

Anyone is eligible to make nominations, though a creator cannot nominate ( Read more... )