emelee Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 (edited) I was thinking we could do a little best author poll/competionion here. How?1. Everyone is allowed to nominate up to 3 authors each that you feel is worthy of the title "best author ever" in this thread. 2. Then I will collect all names nominated and do a little lottery of what author goes up against what author in a "X or Y" survey, where each BCF member is allowed to say his or her opinion. 50% of the nominated authors will then be eliminated. Depending on how many authors get nominated in step 1, step 2 may get another round. 3. When about 6 authors are left, I will create another poll. And the winner of them will win the competition and be titled the best author. Of course, it may turn into a popularity contest, but we'll see.... All authors in step 1 will qualify to step 2. So if you want to nominate an author already mentioned, save that vote for another great author you like. There is no reason for everyone to nominate the same author time and time again. In step 1, that really is not needed. All authors you submit for nomination has to be fiction authors. So, lets try this and see if it works. Start nominating authors now! Nomination process will end April 6, so you will have until then to nominate or change your nomination! Edited March 23, 2014 by emelee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleW Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Good idea 1. Elisabeth George 2. Edward Rutherford 3. Rebecca Gable (I don't know, if her books are translated into English, but I think so) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtrpath27 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 I think this is a wonderful idea! Now I just have to think of who to nominate... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emelee Posted March 23, 2014 Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 I will participate too, as I cannot possibly cheat. I also have to think of who to nominate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CuriousGeorgette Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Salman Rushdie Tash Aw Conn Iggulden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Neil Gaiman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vimes Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 JRR Tolkien Bernard Cornwell L. E Modesitt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angury Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Interesting idea. I nominate: Vladimir Nabokov Terry Pratchett Oscar Wilde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayley Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Great idea! It will be really interesting to see who ends up in the last 6! I see Terry Pratchett has already been nominated so I'd like to vote for: Charles Dickens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ooshie Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 What a good idea! I would like to nominate: 1. Edith Wharton 2. Hilary Mantel 3. Donna Leon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marie H Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Gabriel García Márquez E M Forster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 (edited) Oh, goody! Vladimir Nabokov (of course!) ok, just reread instructions.....lemme think... John Banville (in either incarnation....meaning Benjamin Black) Paul Auster William Faulkner Edited March 23, 2014 by pontalba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emelee Posted March 23, 2014 Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 I added a final date for this first round. You all have until April 6th to nominate or change you nominations if you wish. Any nomination after that date will not be counted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Stephen King Margaret Atwood Maggie O'Farrell Interesting to see how this turns out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 (edited) Assuming we're talking fiction, and as Ooshie has demonstrated yet again that our tastes do have a habit of frequently coinciding (I could have nominated any of those three!), I'm going for three of the female titans (if one can have such a person!) of English literature: Jane Austen Virginia Woolf George Eliot Edited March 23, 2014 by willoyd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 George Orwell Are we allowed non-fiction authors? If so; Laurie Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emelee Posted March 23, 2014 Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 George Orwell Are we allowed non-fiction authors? If so; Laurie Lee Oh gosh, where were my head. I should have mentioned that! No, fiction writers only in this competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Robert Jordan Peter F. Hamilton Sophie Kinsella Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Oh gosh, where were my head. I should have mentioned that! No, fiction writers only in this competition. Oh, okay. Shame though - he's such a poetical writer. Never mind. I've been thinking today and I forgot to mention Daphne Du Maurier. I haven't read all her stuff but what I have read has been fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emelee Posted March 26, 2014 Author Share Posted March 26, 2014 Franz Kafka Edgar Allan Poe Fyodor Dostoyevsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emelee Posted April 4, 2014 Author Share Posted April 4, 2014 Last date to nominate a writer is Sunday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WisconsinBooks Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 I'd like to nominate... Paulo Coelho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WisconsinBooks Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 Sorry for multi post... but also like to nominate Leo Tolstoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emelee Posted April 5, 2014 Author Share Posted April 5, 2014 No problem Everyone has 27 more hours to nominate or change their nominations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emelee Posted April 7, 2014 Author Share Posted April 7, 2014 So the nomination process is now over and I will draw who will be up against who. New thread for that. This one will be locked, if I can do that as just a member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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