Official Reader Voting Questionnaire
Readers send in the questionnaire to nominate Grace Awards Finalists. The Board then counts all nominations.
Copy and paste the Official Voting Questions below into an email and send it to: graceawards@aol.com
***Vote in as many categories as you wish – one title in each category, only
***Authors can vote, but not for their own novel.
***Editors and publishers can vote for any novel they chose, as long as they are not the author or co-author.
***Grace Awards board members, judges and staff can vote, but not for any novel they author or co-author.
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Grace Awards 2011 Voting Questions Copy and Paste this Official Grace Awards Voting Template onto an email. Send it to graceawards@aol.com
Give A Link To Your Social Networking Page (web address to your page put up before November 1, 2011, so we know you’re a real person): Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Shelfari, Linkedin, a Ning Page, MySpace, ShoutLife, or the like. If you do NOT provide a link, your vote is invalid.
Womens Fiction (serious women’s issues, can have humor and/or suspense elements). Why you like the story: (At least 25 words)
Title/Author:
Contemporary Romance/Historical Romance (the primary element is love/marriage, be it now or then). Why you like the story: (At least 25 words)
Title/Author:
Suspense/Thriller/Mystery/Romantic Suspense (crime fiction, there’s probably a body). Why you like the story: (At least 25 words)
Title/Author:
Speculative Fiction (SciFi, fantasy, horror, etc.). Why you like the story: (At least 25 words)
Title/Author:
Action Adventure/Western/Historic Epic Fiction (exploits, quest, a feel of wide-open spaces, expansive). Why you like the story: (At least 25 words)
Title/Author:
Young Adult (appeals to ages 15 – 21-ish). Why you like the story: (At least 25 words)
Title/Author:
I have a question. If just a regular reader, who has not joined any networking sites wants to nominate a book for a Grace Award, is there any way they can do that?
Deborah, Most regular people these days have some type of social networking site affiliation. If they belong to Goodreads or Shelfari that would work.
We have this rule in place to make sure they’re a real person. We check each networking site given and note if there’s activity there that shows they person is real.
Thanks, Nike, but, no, this person does not participate in any sites, even those about books. In fact, she doesn’t spend much time on the computer. Anyway, thanks, again!
This is a sad situation. My parents, in their 70s, are avid readers. They don’t own a computer and barely know a mouse from a modem. It seems to me that a handwritten note sent to a snailmail address should be enough to convince the judges that a person is real. That is, unless the judge is computer-generated….
Karen, The nominations were closed on Feb 29th. So, the note could not have reached anyone by then. We don’t have offices or a building. So, we’d have to give the hone address of one of the judges…and the Grace Awards isn’t willing to do that. Although I wish your parents could have voted, the Grace Awards came up with rules that would best accommodate the most readers. The reason we want a link to a networking page that is active is so we can check it and see that it’s an active page…that the person doing the nominating is real. Our vote counter (not an author) checked the link given by each reader nominator. I’m sure no author would do this, but anyone can write notes and nominate themselves using their parents address.