Be reminded on the Voting Rules

Voting Instructions for LR Café’s “Best of 2010” Awards

**PLEASE MAKE SURE TO READ THESE RULES CAREFULLY**

VOTING BEGINS JANUARY 22^ND, 2011 TO JANUARY 30^TH, 2011 ONLY! No early voting will be allowed or accepted. Winners to be announced on the LR Café Loop on January 31^st at Noon EST.

Voting will take place on Dawn’s Reading Nook Blog. Each category will have a separate post and to vote, comment your choice in the comment area.

Link to Dawn’s Reading Nook Blog is: http://lovesbooksandmore.blogspot.com

Please be aware that whoever is in the lead is NOT the winner. The reviewers for LR&M Reviews will be casting their votes as well. Just because nominee A has %% votes and you think is the winner, until I announce on January 31^st who the winner is, it is NOT a final tally. DO NOT GO OFF ANNOUNCING WINNERS. That is for me to do and I will disqualify anyone who does this before the official announcement.

Now that said, I have a few items to discuss.

*~* NO offering free books, stories to voters. This is considered “Buying votes” and if I hear about it, see it, you are disqualified. Plain and simple.

*~* During the voting period, you are welcome to do a post on the LRC loop saying something along the lines of “I was nominated in such and such category (s) and would love your vote. Check out title here”. Make sure to give a link to where readers can check out a book excerpt or blurb. DO NOT post excerpts of said nominated work on the loop unless it’s a Monday (promo day) or I say otherwise during the week. This is due to all the scheduled chats in the LRC loop.

*~* Please do not vote under several names. If you are an author who writes under different names, please don’t try to stuff the ballet so to speak by voting each time under each different name. That is dishonest and unethical.

Link to LR Café loop: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/loveromancescafe

You have from 6 AM EST on January 22^nd to Midnight January 30^th to vote (EST, USA). I will not count any votes after midnight on January 30^th. So make sure you let your readers know to get their votes in early enough so it counts.

Have any questions, please let me know at dawn_roberto@yahoo.com; NOT on the loop message board please.