Spec Fic Online
This entry was posted on Monday, May 05. 2008 and is filed under Posts by Rebecca Luella Miller,Award.
Christian speculative fiction is catching on, and as it does, it seems more and more people are adding their voices to the promotion/marketing/instruction mix. Good! There's lots to talk about, lots to learn. But it seems to me it would be helpful to catalogue all these sites.
Jeff Gerke, publisher of Marcher Lord Press, heads up WhereTheMapEnds, a site touting itself as the home of Christian Speculative Fiction. One of the Writer's Tools on the site is a listing of books available. In addition, he has a list of "Fantastic Visions," speculative artists, followed by a list of online magazines, manga, gaming sites. It's a good stab at the catalogue I mentioned.
Problem is, it needs to be updated.
So I'm thinking, why not a supplemental list? ... Why not a CONTEST? We could have a Commenters' Choice—best Christian Speculative Fiction site online. What do you think? From the nominations, we could create the catalogue—most loved sites, or something.
We won't start the contest just yet. I need to get your input though, on how to work this.
Here are my thoughts. Just like the Clive Staples Award, we take nominations from ... you.
Then we set a vote day, which we publish well in advance, giving those interested in participating a chance to visit the sites that are nominated. Then on vote day, a person leaves a comment here at Spec Faith, with the name of the site they're voting for.
One vote per person—honor system.
Winning site gets to display an award symbol (could use some help designing that).
Question. Are blogs eligible? Or only webzines and forums. And what constitutes a Christian speculative fiction site? My thought here is, the site needs to be wholy dedicated to the topic. Spec Faith would qualify (if we include blogs), for instance, but A Christian Worldview of Fiction, though I talk about fantasy frequently, would not.
OK, this could be fun! Your thoughts?
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Monday, May 05. 2008
Stuart wrote:
We may want to have categories. So perhaps best informational site, best fiction site, best discussion site...
That may be too diluted though. I like the idea. Going to have to look up what I've got bookmarked and see what there is to submit. Though both Where the Map Ends and The Anomoly (forums) are good. :)
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Tuesday, May 06. 2008
Rebecca LuElla Miller wrote:
Stuart, I thought about categories, especially separating blogs from webzines. Then I thought, maybe we need to try this once and see what kind of participation we get before we make it too complex. For example, I wish we had a voting method, such as Rachelle Gardner used for her latest contest. But I think "hand counting" from comments will work. It's just not anonymous and others may be influenced by previous votes.
But I figure, if we wait to make all the elements perfect, we won't get to it at all. (Sort of what happened with the novel award last year).
And yes, I hope you do visit the sites you have bookmarked, or those listed at WtME. We need to get a good selection, I think.
Becky
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Thursday, May 08. 2008
Andrea wrote:
Sounds like a great idea to me, Becky. Kinda like our own bloggies.
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Thursday, May 08. 2008
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