Rose & Bay Awards
Jan. 5th, 2010 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This past year has really been an excellent year for crowdfunded fiction: 2009 was the year Catherynne M. Valente serialized the remarkable The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. It was the year Shira Lipkin not only continued her Wind Tunnel Dreams, but put out a hardbound copy of all WTD pieces then extant. This was the year of T.A. Pratt's Bone Shop and Dave Freer's Save the Dragons and the continuing adventures of Seanan McGuire's Velveteen Vs. Everything. It was a year for the continuance of Shadow Unit, the hardbound publication of the previously web-published The Admonishments of Kherishdar, and so much more.

2009 was also the year that saw the birth of the Rose and Bay Awards, a five-category award conceived by the
crowdfunding community to honor both those who put everything into quality crowdfunded works and those individual patrons who pour financial support into these brave creators. The specified categories are Art, Fiction, Poetry, Other Project, and Patron. Just as these remarkable crowdfunded works benefits by the participation of every interested party, the Rose and Bay Awards likewise asks for the participation of the same as they search for eligible works for the first annual awards.
So, if you are a supporter of any crowdfunded projects anywhere, here are some things you can do to help (as excerpted from the Rose and Bay Awards landing page):
crowdfunding , and spread the word!
P.S. Feel free to use the banner above: I made it in Photoshop from M.C.A. Hogarth's excellent logo and the fine coloring job done by Karen Wehrstein. There's also a bordered version in my galleries.
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2009 was also the year that saw the birth of the Rose and Bay Awards, a five-category award conceived by the
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So, if you are a supporter of any crowdfunded projects anywhere, here are some things you can do to help (as excerpted from the Rose and Bay Awards landing page):
Read more about the Rose and Bay Awards in this post by
- Make some nominations. Leave yours in a comment to "nomination open" post of the appropriate category. (See list in this post.)
- Mark the voting period on your calendar. Make sure you come back to
crowdfunding in February to cast your votes.
- Promote the Rose and Bay Award by blogging about it, emailing your friends, posting it on social networks, or any other method you can imagine. Everyone is encouraged to spread the word as far as possible whether you are a creator of crowdfunded projects, a patron of the arts, or a curious onlooker. You may link to this landing page and/or the "nomination open" posts for individual categories.
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P.S. Feel free to use the banner above: I made it in Photoshop from M.C.A. Hogarth's excellent logo and the fine coloring job done by Karen Wehrstein. There's also a bordered version in my galleries.
Originally posted at Livejournal. You can comment here or there.