Comments on: Texas Tea is a 2008 Fantasm Award WINNER! http://www.realmsoftheraven.com/2008/04/14/texas-tea-is-a-2008-fantasm-award-winner/ Home of Author Maura Anderson Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:58:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Maura Anderson http://www.realmsoftheraven.com/2008/04/14/texas-tea-is-a-2008-fantasm-award-winner/#comment-12615 Maura Anderson Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:21:21 +0000 http://www.realmsoftheraven.com/2008/04/14/texas-tea-is-a-2008-fantasm-award-winner/#comment-12615 LOL - thanks C (aka Mr. Maura) and Sascha! I'm jazzed - and debating whether adding it to my sig is ... umm... crass... LOL - thanks C (aka Mr. Maura) and Sascha!

I’m jazzed - and debating whether adding it to my sig is … umm… crass…

]]> By: The Dark Wolf Prince http://www.realmsoftheraven.com/2008/04/14/texas-tea-is-a-2008-fantasm-award-winner/#comment-12596 The Dark Wolf Prince Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:03:22 +0000 http://www.realmsoftheraven.com/2008/04/14/texas-tea-is-a-2008-fantasm-award-winner/#comment-12596 Hii Maura, Congrats! Great news for a new award winning author LOL! Sascha Hii Maura,

Congrats! Great news for a new award winning author LOL!

Sascha

]]> By: C http://www.realmsoftheraven.com/2008/04/14/texas-tea-is-a-2008-fantasm-award-winner/#comment-12508 C Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:26:52 +0000 http://www.realmsoftheraven.com/2008/04/14/texas-tea-is-a-2008-fantasm-award-winner/#comment-12508 I'm so proud. :lol: :mrgreen: Now you have to understand, Maura didn't think she had any chance at winning this.. not because the story wasn't good (it is, and if you have not read it, shame on you! :evil: go buy it now! in fact you should buy 2 and give one to a friend) uh anyway not because the story was not up to winning, but because she is a new author, the contest is a popular vote, and she was up against known names with larger numbers of potential voters. That can sometimes mean that the contest becomes more about who has the most fans or can promote the most, and not who has the best story. Now because I feel that she knows her market, and the other authors, I believed her when she said "I've no chance of winning, and am just pleased to have been nominated" That didn't stop me from demanding she do some promotion and "pimp" herself and encourage folks to vote for her, but it did mean I don't get to say "I told you so" as some others have, because I trusted that her assessment of her chances was correct. So I was both surprised and delighted when we found out she had won.. So thanks to any of you who voted, it's most appreciated.. especially since I now get to tease her about being "an award winning author" heh :razz: I’m so proud.

Now you have to understand, Maura didn’t think she had any chance at winning this.. not because the story wasn’t good (it is, and if you have not read it, shame on you! go buy it now! in fact you should buy 2 and give one to a friend) uh anyway not because the story was not up to winning, but because she is a new author, the contest is a popular vote, and she was up against known names with larger numbers of potential voters. That can sometimes mean that the contest becomes more about who has the most fans or can promote the most, and not who has the best story.

Now because I feel that she knows her market, and the other authors, I believed her when she said “I’ve no chance of winning, and am just pleased to have been nominated” That didn’t stop me from demanding she do some promotion and “pimp” herself and encourage folks to vote for her, but it did mean I don’t get to say “I told you so” as some others have, because I trusted that her assessment of her chances was correct.

So I was both surprised and delighted when we found out she had won.. So thanks to any of you who voted, it’s most appreciated.. especially since I now get to tease her about being “an award winning author” heh

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