Welcome

Welcome to Some Kind of Wonderful Romance Awards! We are an original romance awards site, particularly geared towards FictionPress romance writers. We have awardings during the winter and the summer (click here for more information). We have many additional features on the site geared towards aiding the aspiring author. Our goal? To bring depth and fun to an otherwise patronized genre.

Updates

12 July 2008

As promised, voting has been opened at 8:00pm. (Actually, it's a bit later, but let's pretend.) Click the link "Vote" to the left to begin!

Please note that there are new rules to this voting period, listed on the voting page. So if anything seems odd to you, read that first and you'll find out if it was meant to be that way or if it really is a mistake on my part.

As you may have noticed, I've unveiled a new layout created by GS vet Nic, who based her layout on the fairy tale Thumbelina. Send some love her way! (:

11 JUly 2008

To kill off some questions that I know are going to be coming, voting officially starts at 8pm tomorrow EST (GMT-5). (: I'm working on making the voting pages for the voting period at the moment.

If you've sent me an e-mail or PM within the past day, don't expect a reply until about Sunday. Don't worry -- I've read it. I just don't have time to reply at the moment. If it's urgent, I highly suggest you contact me through AIM, use the cbox, or contact one of the judges. If you use the cbox, one of my other judges will likely answer your question. (:

9 July 2008

And the final nominees list is up. (: The category of Most Humorous will be condensed into a Winner/Runner-Up type category instead of a Complete/Incomplete category. This means that the Complete stories will be competing with the Incomplete stories for Winner and Runner-Up, instead of the usual. This is because of the lack of nominees for Most Humorous (Complete).

Voting starts in four days. Exciting, no?

6 July 2008

And did a huge, huge update on the nominees list. (: Don't worry! This isn't the final update. My judges are just a bit behind is all. Nevertheless, it should quell your need for nominees for a little while -- at least, until the rest of the nominees come in and the voting period begins. (:

5 July 2008

In response to some inquiries about challenges: If you are on the nominee list, it doesn't necessarily mean that your story meets all the challenge's requirements. To be put on the nominee list, your story simply has to be complete and has to have the challenge requirements either in the beginning or the end.

How are they nominated? Simple. The author posts an advertisement for it up on the Yahoo! Group or sends me an e-mail about it. I see it and the story is automatically posted on the nominees list. Not really a lot of qualifiers there, but I check for those at a later time. (:

Last day of nominating! Get your last nominations in before the judges start submitting their final nominees in. (:

3 July 2008

The category of Best Chemistry has been closed for nominations. Also, I'd like to send out a shoutout for the categories of Punk'd Award and Happily Ever After Award. (:

30 June 2008

The category of Best Lovers' Spat has been closed for nominations. (: Last week of nominating, loves! Get your last nominees in while you can.

26 June 2008

I've added some "I'm Nominated!" buttons to the Nominated? page made by lovely Angeline. If you were nominated, please feel free to take one. (:

I've also updated the nominees list. Again, let me send a shout out to the category Best Lovers' Spat, which needs more nominees. (:

24 June 2008

There we go. A whole new batch of nominees has been put up. Not many, mind you, but enough. Keep nominating! I suggest placing special attention on the Best Awkward Moment category, which is lacking in nominees. Best Het, Best Chemistry, and Most Memorable have plenty of nominees, I assure you.

16 June 2008

Ouch. First day of work was painful. Anyway. Just to make it clear -- the theme has NOTHING to do with what stories can be nominated. The theme is purely for the graphics. Some categories like "Happily Ever After" may have been inspired by the theme, but it has absolutely nothing to do with it otherwise.

15 June 2008

I finished! I did, I swear it! I woke up around 8:30 this morning and have been working until 5:00 this afternoon to set up the site for Round Six. Whew. Now that Round Six has officially begun, let me tell you exactly what I've been up to today.

1. New layout. This one was made by our new GS Jamie and coded by yours truly. The image used is another one of those Annie Leibovitz editorials for Disney. I love them. (: Send some kudos Jamie's way!

2. New staff members. This was Jamie's debut layout on SKoW, but there are quite a few new staff members here. The new judges include Brigid, Cassie, Julia, Kyra, LilyAnna, and Melanie. Julia also doubles as a PR specialist, in addition to Rachel. They interview authors for the questionnaires. The new GSes include Jamie and Cheryl, who created the graphics for the Hall of Fame.

3. The Hall of Fame is here! Speaking of the Hall of Fame.. It is here! For more information, check out the link to the left. The Hall of Fame inductees cannot be nominated for any more awards since they've received our highest honor and any more would just be redundant.

4. New questionnaires. Julia and Rachel have been hard at work contacting authors and hitting them up with questions. The new authors this update are i found nemo, Em Wolf, mrdryrdrlings, and JD Allen.

5. New categories and category supervisors, plus category splitting. You may be wondering, "Hey! What happened to the other categories that were here?" Well, while you were gone, I made an executive decision to split the categories in order to make room for newer categories. Some categories were split up so that the winter and summer rounds could contrast (i.e. Het/Slash, Kiss/Spat, Wordsmith/Breakout) and some were split up just because I felt like it. This round, we have four new categories: Best Lovers' Spat, Best Series, "Dead Fic" Award, and the "Happily Ever After" Award. Go to the categories page to read each description. Be careful about "Happily Ever"! Just because it's an award for Best Ending doesn't mean that the ending has to be happy. Judges will also be doubling up as category supervisors to different categories. They serve to double-check the nominees that judges screen through and they will actually be the ones putting nominees up on the site. In essence, your nomination has to go through three people (that's including me!) to get on the nominees last.

6. And much more... Read the past updates since April 27 to find out what went on here while you were idling away elsewhere.

Past Updates

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