All book awards, from the renowned literary Booker Award short list to the lesser and bizarre, to the realm of on-line book awards, always, always, standard of narrative, dialogue, characterisation, grammar, presentation, and formatting with ebooks, all these things are the essentials for award status, or should be. A Book Award is the key symbol of those main pointers, and while you may draw a sharp intake of breath and think, *oh heck, is my work good enough, or is my story exciting enough* when the chips are on the table the plot is still the core of the book.
Each award is the hallmark of a quality read. There can be no runners-up when there is no competition of votes cast and final elimination of semi-finalists. Therefore I asked my designer to create badges with png transparency for promo purposes. Again authors are at liberty to accept and promote the symbol, or not.
Suzy - founder/reader:
I am a Journalist, editor, with no aspirations to become a novelist. Jane Austen has been my passion since that of a young girl. My first read was Persuasion. From then I was totally hooked. All Miss Austen's books were desired from that breathtaking moment the end was reached where Captain Wentworth finally won his lady. I am also a fan of Georgette Heyer works and works by modern day authors. I do prefer adventure in keeping with Heyeresque rather than the more sickly sweet demure plots. After all, Jane Austen highlighted bitchiness, arrogance, and tiresome gossips. Placing the above aside I am also a fan off historical novels in general. I swing more toward Dickens and modern history.
Charlotte - admin/reader:
Like Suzy I'm a journalist with no aspirations to become a novelist either. I wouldn't know where to start writing a novel, one that would be worth reading. I spend my days sitting in front of keyboards and monitors. Give me a book for any spare moments and I am in clover. I love the Tudor period through to the Stuart era, the Georgian period and the Regency era. I do get mad over stupid scenarios in books. By that I mean the unbelievable instances when manners were uppermost in society and a silly chit sounds off much like a servant out of earshot of their master or mistress. Where is there bad language from the mouths of society chits in a Jane Austen, Heyer, or within the best of historical novels by modern-day authors?
Addendum:
We have a reader whose expertise is medieval, who will join the reader team once we are up and running.
We have another reader whose expertise is the 17th and 18th centuries.
Readers are welcome to join the team but must be able to write lean but informative editorial reviews of no more than 600 words approx.
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