The voices of the people will not be silenced!
Here’s how it works:
On each of the next twelve days, I’ll post a ballot of one month’s worth of posted covers. You may pick UP TO THREE as the worst on each month for qualifying status. (Just to keep the number of options down, I’m limiting it to covers which received at least three comments from people other than me.) All ballots will remain open until January 15th.
On January 16th, I’ll post Round Two, bringing those covers from each ballot together in one final ballot.
And on January 31st, I’ll post the ten worst covers posted in 2022!
Looking forward the next round. Or, you know, the opposite of that.
Y’know, we probably need to start the voting for the first two quarters of the preceding year earlier. That would give us more time to recover from the trauma of viewing 30-31 at a pop and selecting the worst. By the time I got to September, I had to take a two-day break, so my brain wouldn’t melt. 🙂 Had to force myself back today, to finish up, so that I didn’t miss the deadline!
Hmm. I might put a couple of options like that to a poll, once everyone’s past the “if I never see another ballot of book covers it’ll be too soon” phase.
Yeah. I am always a bit tongue-in-cheek, of course, but seriously, plowing through 8-9 months of covers was…my brain really did seize up and wanted to refuse to play anymore.
So, IDK, maybe we can do quarterlies? It would be easier on you, too. At the end of March, do the first, yadda. That way, the last tranche goes through in, say, Mid-January and then we have the final and winner, winner chicken dinner! Just a thought.
Just imagine me, plowing through ALL the covers of the year to put the ballots together. I’ve still got random twitches.
OMG, yes, and that was part of my point, too. Surely, quarterlies would be easier on YOU. After all, it’s not like LBCers are time-travelling back in time and adding covers, right? So…why not? 🙂 I do feel for you.
(Did all those covers on CC really all come in at once, or did you have a blockage in your email pipe?)
(The came in from mid-December on in a mini-flood. More to come. I assume a lot of indie authors were busy from NaNoWriMo onward with that project.)
I guess. We had a dearth of inquiries, in December (and even back into November) but January appears to be back to normal. [shrug]. Dunno, it’s odd this past year. Typically Sept-December is our BY FAR busiest time of the year and it damn sure wasn’t in 2022!
I still say the administrative announcements of each of these ballots ought to be in one big sticky post so we can keep the comments together.
Yeah, that too.