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 The time is now, my friends, to vote for the recipients of the first annual Rose & Bay Awards!

Votes must be in by February 28th. In case you missed my explanation of the Awards at the beginning of January, allow me to re-post my initial explanation:

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.

Read more about the Rose and Bay Awards in this post by crowdfunding , and spread the word!

And now, here are links to the voting posts for each category: 

Art: Vote for this category.
Nominees include haikujaguar's Stardancer Art Archive and flutterbychildflutterbychild's The Rebirth of Me.

Fiction: Vote for this category.
Nominees include Seanan McGuireseanan_mcguire's Velveteen Vs. Everything and catvalente's The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.

Poetry: Vote for this category.
Nominees include wyld_dandelyon and ysabetwordsmith ysabetwordsmith.

Other Project: Vote for this category.
Nominees include shadesong's Wind Tunnel Dreams and Ellen Million's EMG-Zine.

Patron: Vote for this category.
Nominees include phinnia and minor_architectminor_architect.

Remember, you only have until February 28th to vote! 



This entry was originally posted at Livejournal on February 16th, 2010. You can comment here or there.

If you're interested in crowdfunding (or cyberfunded creativity), either as a creator or a consumer, you should definitely be a member of cyberfund_creat. (Speaking of which, all members of cyberfund_creat need to make sure they take part in our renaming poll, closing this weekend.)

In honor of crowdfunding, I've made a few topical icons:



( +7 variations in the table behind the cut... )

All images are courtesy of Getty Images. Thanks to Bauble for the icon table generator.

As always, comments are keen! Credit can be given to talkstowolves.