Rose and Bay Award Eligibility

The Rose and Bay awards are open for nomination. You can nominate your favorite creative crowdfunded projects for this award. Here is a post linking to each nomination page (fiction, art, poetry, webcomics, other creative projects, and donors are this year's categories).

Anyone is eligible to make nominations, though a creator cannot nominate their own work.  Each of you is welcome to nominate any crowdfunded project you've been enjoying.

A sample nomination, with Torn World information, is as follows:

Project Title: Torn World
Creator Name: Ellen Million, Elizabeth Barrette, Deirdre Murphy, Valerie Higgins, and others
Link: http://www.tornworld.net
Category: Other Project (an original unique shared world with fiction, poetry, mythology, art, and encyclopedia-style articles about the world)
Summary: Torn World is a shared science-fantasy world where the co-creators write, draw, paint, and othewise create a complex world by telling the stories of the people of that world.
Crowdfunding Method: Torn World is crowdfunded through subscriptions to the site, sponsorships to specific stories, and donations to the creators during monthly Muse Fusion events, where the Torn World creators create cool new stuff in response to the prompts and questions posed by the audience.

Torn World is eligible in the "other" category, since Torn World includes poetry, fiction, mythology, art, and worldbuilding articles.  If you wish to nominate Torn World, the other category nomination page is here. 

I also crowdfunded other projects:

• Dandelyon's Verse (for instance, Green Eyed Friend and Grandmother's Stories).  My poetry landing page is here, and it includes poetry since I started the project

• Fireborn, which I had hoped to finish in 2010; I still owe you the end of this story, and will get bak to it.. The landing page for Fireborn is here.

• Feather-Blessed, my series of short stories about girls turned into dragons by a magical feather.  You start the series here.

If someone wants to nominate any of these projects and needs more information to fill in the blanks, just let me know.

Rose and Bay Award Eligibility

The Rose and Bay awards are open for nomination. You can nominate your favorite creative crowdfunded projects for this award. Here is a post linking to each nomination page (fiction, art, poetry, webcomics, other creative projects, and donors are this year's categories).

Anyone is eligible to make nominations, though a creator cannot nominate their own work.  Each of you is welcome to nominate any crowdfunded project you've been enjoying.

A sample nomination, with Torn World information, is as follows:

Project Title: Torn World
Creator Name: Ellen Million, Elizabeth Barrette, Deirdre Murphy, Valerie Higgins, and others
Link: http://www.tornworld.net
Category: Other Project (an original unique shared world with fiction, poetry, mythology, art, and encyclopedia-style articles about the world)
Summary: Torn World is a shared science-fantasy world where the co-creators write, draw, paint, and othewise create a complex world by telling the stories of the people of that world.
Crowdfunding Method: Torn World is crowdfunded through subscriptions to the site, sponsorships to specific stories, and donations to the creators during monthly Muse Fusion events, where the Torn World creators create cool new stuff in response to the prompts and questions posed by the audience.

Torn World is eligible in the "other" category, since Torn World includes poetry, fiction, mythology, art, and worldbuilding articles.  If you wish to nominate Torn World, the other category nomination page is here. 

I also crowdfunded other projects:

• Dandelyon's Verse (for instance, Green Eyed Friend and Grandmother's Stories).  My poetry landing page is here, and it includes poetry since I started the project

• Fireborn, which I had hoped to finish in 2010; I still owe you the end of this story, and will get bak to it.. The landing page for Fireborn is here.

• Feather-Blessed, my series of short stories about girls turned into dragons by a magical feather.  You start the series here.

If someone wants to nominate any of these projects and needs more information to fill in the blanks, just let me know.

Muse Fusion update

Well, I got one 1700 word story done, to the prompt of Froggy Day. It can be sponsored for $15. I'm pleased with it. Although I know it's important to have quality material for our subscribers to read, I'm hoping it gets sponsored so I can share it with all of you.

Other than that, however, I have several more things started, but am pondering the best way to finish them. It's been a while since I stopped in the middle of so many things and stared at the page.

Some of it might be that I stopped in the middle of getting set up for my new job search to do first sketchfest and then this. Oh, I've already started the search, updating my resumes online and on paper, and started sending them out. But I have a mental list of phone calls to make, letting the agencies I've worked with and people who might refer me to friends and acquaintances know I'm looking, and updating my references, and online networking...enough that it's still active in the back of my brain.

I also need to do some house-related things, including gather. the parts we didn't used to install the new boiler, putting them in a bag with the receipts, and return them. So that's active in the back of my brain too.

And this computer is getting slow as molasses. I probably should restart it.

But I'm not giving up yet!

Anyone have a suggestion about what part of Dini's past they'd like hinted at?

Muse Fusion update

Well, I got one 1700 word story done, to the prompt of Froggy Day. It can be sponsored for $15. I'm pleased with it. Although I know it's important to have quality material for our subscribers to read, I'm hoping it gets sponsored so I can share it with all of you.

Other than that, however, I have several more things started, but am pondering the best way to finish them. It's been a while since I stopped in the middle of so many things and stared at the page.

Some of it might be that I stopped in the middle of getting set up for my new job search to do first sketchfest and then this. Oh, I've already started the search, updating my resumes online and on paper, and started sending them out. But I have a mental list of phone calls to make, letting the agencies I've worked with and people who might refer me to friends and acquaintances know I'm looking, and updating my references, and online networking...enough that it's still active in the back of my brain.

I also need to do some house-related things, including gather. the parts we didn't used to install the new boiler, putting them in a bag with the receipts, and return them. So that's active in the back of my brain too.

And this computer is getting slow as molasses. I probably should restart it.

But I'm not giving up yet!

Anyone have a suggestion about what part of Dini's past they'd like hinted at?