Renay, you just crack me up!! Edward and Jacob would have made for a far better book!!

I’m with you on the FTC. I really don’t care. I’m not changing anything. What are they going to do? Throw me in jail? I’ll be owning me the FTC if that happens!!

I came into the Nerds Heart YA a little late last year. Early enough to be a judge (which was awesome, by the way!) but too late to nominate. Can’t wait to see what the new year brings!! Keep up the good work!

Yay can I have editing ability please, I have a few ideas saved up, plus I kind of think scope is going to keep me out of judging next year because I am the blogger with the teeniest (yet very much loved) audience so I want to get all my choices into your nominating list.

Also Naanowrimo, I really want to do it (my idea has werewolves but not so much heterosexual romance) but I am afraid to kill my idea by trying to write it in a month. I will have a good go at following your progress though.

I won’t ask for editing rights because I rarely read new releases and wouldn’t know what to add, but I look forward to seeing what people suggest and them being crushed to death under the weight of everything I want to read RIGHT NOW.

Also, your NaNo idea sounds awesome. Have you read anything by Wendy Mass? Her Geektastic story was full of dorky astronomy stuff, and apparently so are her novels!

I”m having comment overload! too many things to talk about! Okay…I don’t care about the FTC thing. It’s all been blown out of proportion and panicked about too much. If you’re getting books for free, say so. End of story, no big deal. Gah. That’s the first I’ve heard of the Lambda thing, and I don’t like it. Maybe if they want to make a separate category, but to disqualify good books that way, that’s just wrong. It’s like saying ‘we don’t care if you’re straight and supporting our community.’ Bad thing! Good luck on NaNo. I don’t know if I’ll make it, either. but I’m going to try.

Too many things to comment on!! The FTC can go fuck themselves :/ Hate to put it so bluntly, but that’s seriously just ridiculous. I get the occasional book for review, I receive no compensation, I make it abundantly clear that I am completely honest in my reviews. That just pisses me off.

Of course I would love access to the google doc :p I don’t know if you need it, but my gmail user name thingy is chrisa511. I don’t know what I’ve read yet this year that isn’t hugely popular, but I’ll go check!

Your NaNo book sounds so good!! Seriously good! I’m so excited that you’re doing it this year :D It’s going to be so much fund!! Did you buy a shirt? Can you tell that I have an obsession with tshirts? Cuz I do >> And the sandwich!! OMG I want the sandwich!! Seriously that sounds so good!! I don’t have bacon or apples, but I seriously think I’m going to make me a grilled cheese right now….because I do have cheese and bread and butter…..Ok…yeah…going to do that.

@Stephanie I will totally add you to the access list for nominating books if you want! Or you can just leave suggestions in the comments, e-mail them, whatever, and I’ll add them!

@Jodie Yes! Editing privileges will be yours!

Also I am not going to limit judging to people who have broad readership, I just meant it in the context of nominating books, becausde I want our long list to be, well, LONG. Maybe my dreams are too big! Sob!

@Nymeth WELCOME TO MY WORST NIGHTMARE. I still have to read all the books from the last round! Curses!

I have not read anything by Wendy Mass, but now I’ll have to! My main character is into astronomy and wants to be an astronomer, but of course I am nothing of the sort and also suck at math and science so writing this novel is going to be hilarious! HILARIOUS.

(I am totally going to figure out how to put nerdy astronomy jokes in it. You should see my research list for this book, the books I want to read as I’m working on it. It’s kind of epic.)

@Amanda I sure do ask a lot of my commentators, don’t I!

I don’t like the Lamdba thing much, either, but I was afraid to come out against it much for fear of the “YOU’RE A HOMOPHOBE!” accusation, or the “You’re just bittter because you can’t enter!” which I saw tossed around (even though I could, ha ha, suckers!). Basically I was just terrified of retribution for being disappointed that Lambda made this move, then made it so close to submission time instead of immediately after the close of the last season. It makes me sad, because how am I going to find all the books now by authors too afraid to submit, or authors that can’t? SOB.

@Chris Uh, yeah that was basically my reaction to the FTC except with more expletives.

There’s been no shirt buying here, in general I save money for food and medical stuff these days. Maybe if I get THROUGH NaNo and hit my 10,000 word goal I will award myself with a shirt.

Should we leave nominations in the comments section (depending on how many books that are nominated that I need to read, I may be able to help out). I love the idea of getting the word out about books flying under the radar!
FTC? pshh. I agree they clearly don’t understand how the book blogging world operates, I think this applies more to the blogging world and the bloggers who get paid in money or free products to write reviews. I make an effort to disclose who I get the books from anyway, just to be upfront!

Besides having my own YA novel that may qualify, I’ve kept my eye out for others that would fit in. MultiCultural Review, where I’m editor-in-chief, reviews a lot of the multicultural titles that tend to fly under the radar elsewhere, either because they’re small-press published (or self-published, because we review some of those) or because the big houses didn’t put a lot of marketing muscle behind them. So if you give me privileges, I can drop a number of titles onto your list. One question: If a book is nominated for the Cybils, does that automatically rule it out?

You know you can throw me on the list of people who want access to the nomination form :)

I’ve also signed up for NaNoWriMo! I’m off to add you as a writing buddy.

Hey Renay,
Sorry I got to this late, just saw it. You may feel free to steal the concept of guerilla dating for your personal life, and need not even credit me. Just let me know if it actually works!