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Lorraine
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Jun 08, 2012 01:35PM
I thought you knew who was voting for who?
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No, this is Pattis secret vote. Even I can't interfere
Ooooh... So Patti temporarily stripped you from your powers?
Seems like it. I am still trying to work.out how :-)
She stuffed you into a cannon full of custard?
Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "She stuffed you into a cannon full of custard?"And left me there all night!
Patti, are we still having lots of "joint first/second/third" positions?
We could do with some more votes I think.....
Yes we need more votes!3 way tie for third at the moment.
Isn't the result out today???I'm dying to see if the one I voted for won!
I hope all entrants have voted!I guess ties are acceptable.
This is the last day of voting, DD. Results tomorrow (or very late tonight, depending on Patti's schedule).
I haven't worn a tie since grammar school, DM.
D.M. Andrews (GoodReads Author) wrote: "I hope all entrants have voted!I guess ties are acceptable.
This is the last day of voting, DD. Results tomorrow (or very late tonight, depending on Patti's schedule)."
AHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!
The suspense is killing me!
I *think* the poll closes automatically at midnight, so I can go to bed when I wish. ;)Be sure to get your votes in today, you lot!
Where do you vote? I looked at this before and couldn't work it out
I got it now but the poll doesn't seem to be open anymore, or at least I couldn't work out how to vote. I think the next time though you should leave out the authors names so it's anonymous and therefore more fair.
Jud, we already decided on doing that next time ;)
Oh I didn't realise you could see the result once you'd voted !!!
I think there's been some teething problems ;)
Yea I saw Jud's post, sounds like it's closed... it's been midnight in a few places already :)
Yes, but not the UK or the US, which is quite perplexing.
Hoping it's open again now. I changed the closing date to the 12th.Would be nice if we could set our location time in here...
Thanks, Patti - so it is likely to end around one of the US time zone midnights? So somewhere between 4-7am ish tomorrow I guess?
I didn't see the results when I voted(hope it's gone through).
I only managed to see a poll once. It vanished then. Presumably so I couldn't vote again?
Please let people know where to vote - bit hard for us entrants to do it, because it might seem like we're pushing fans to vote for us! (on the next "numbered" poll this won't be an issue so much)...
The poll has now been closed and deleted.I'll announce the results in the morning.
Goodreads is too temperamental tonight.
Stuart wrote: "The power!"If I had true power we wouldn't have had bad gateways and Alice in the chair all evening!
Argh!
We all need a rest occasionally I guess!
Yeah, gave me a chance to reread a bit of Hitchhiker, so it wasn't all bad.
Bad gateways can be a terrible thing. You never quite know in which time or place you might find yourself...
That's Dread Portal you're thinking of, Darren ;)
Oh, right, brother of Dark Corridor? I'm always bumping into him.
Right.If I remember correctly, Darren wanted first, second and third to be announced.
First place IGNITE
Second place tie STUART AYRIS and SIMON
Third place tie DARREN HUMPHRIES and DM ANDREWS
WOOP!!!Congrats Ignite
And of course Stu, SImon, Darren and DM :o)
As I mentioned in the morning thread, if anyone would like to volunteer to take over managing the writing contests for a while, I'd really appreciate it.I feel guilty that I haven't the time to manage it properly at the moment.
Of course, I'm more than happy to continue doing the bits that require mod power, such as opening the polls.
Please, if you're willing to do it, contact DM Andrews for details of what is required.
Congratulations Ignite! And also to our gallant runners up. Actually I thought there wasn't a poor effort among them all, excellent standard. Thanks folks!
Well done, Ignite!!!Now just give us the links to your books and we'll tweet them to high heaven! Hmm...
Well, OK, bit of a flaw there, but at least you get to set the next task! :)
I believe the expectation is that Ignite will be setting the parameters for the next writing contest as she's the winner?Are you okay with that Ignite?
Patti said:If I remember correctly, Darren wanted first, second and third to be announced.No, no - I said I wanted to *win* first, second and third place ;)
Yay, well done everyone ! Ignite, you deserved to win !Bit sad I never had to fight with Simon for the last place... you did well dude !
And a heartfelt thank you to the person who voted for me :) MWAH !
Well, thingy-me-sideways with a ragman's trumpet!There's a daft turnip for the books.
I voted for Simon because he told a great story but still described the scene. I deliberated. There were 3 more I nearly went for.
I'm happy to set the next parameters.
What's a parameter? Do you measure silk for parachutes with it?
When do I have to decide?
I'm a bit excited! I was away joining Twitter so I could tell people about all these brilliant books I've been reading and when I come back, this has happened. It might be my first tweet. I'll have to find out how to do one!
I voted for Simon too :) Just cos' his story made me laugh :)But there were some beautiful entries too :)
There were. Is this like the Oscars? Do I have to make a speech and thank all my family and then cry?
I wished that I could have voted for more than one - I dithered between two of them before sticking a pin in.
