Author: Moderated by Gary Jordan
Title: The Silver Clitorides Awards, 2003, August
Part: 8 of 2003
Universe: The Silver Clitorides Awards
Summary: The Silver Clitorides Awards are a monthly adjunct to the
Golden Clitorides Awards.  Their object is to promote good stories
and good authors.
Keywords: Stories, Links, Awards
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The August 2003 Silver Clitorides Awards Presentation:

"So, you're not going to La Taverna tonight to make the
presentation?"

"Nah."

"Do you have an exiting locale picked out as an alternate location
for the presentation?"

"Nope."

"You've perhaps written something clever and witty in lieu of
setting a scene?"

"Huh-uh."

"This isn't like you," Muse fixed me with a stare.  "What exactly do
you have up your sleave?"

"Nothing."

Muse tapped her foot impatiently.

"It all goes back to something you reminded me of," I explained,
"many presentations back."

"You're saying I'm responsible for this minimalist award
presentation?"  She sounded offended.  I nodded anyway.

"You don't remember?  I wanted to do something all glitzy and
splashy, and you reminded me that it isn't what I write that makes
the awards special, It's what the authors wrote.  I said something
about 'sharing the joy' and you said the writers writing and the
readers reading was shared joy."

Muse looked briefly shocked, that I actually paid attention once.

"So, look at the field of nominees;  out of hundreds, perhaps
thousands of brand new stories, these were the ones that at least
one fan thought enough of nominate for the award."  Before Muse
could point out the obvious, I did."Granted, not all fans are even
aware of the awards - they're primarily fans who read ASS/ASSD/ASSM,
ASSTR, Stories Online, Literotica, The Erotic Writers and Readers
Association, Cleansheets, EWP... places where the awards have had
varying degrees of exposure.  And I'll grant as well that some folk
are more concerned with figuring out their votes for the Annual
Golden Clitorides Awards, our big sister."  I smiled when I thought
of Rui tallying hundreds of votes.  But I continued.

"But ninety-six fans enjoyed these stories enough to vote for their
favorites.  Twenty-six each for the winners, twenty-one for next,
and a fairly even distribution among the rest."  I reminded Muse
what that might represent.  "Typically, fewer than 1% of readers
take the time to dash off a quick e-mail to any author, and of
those, 90% are simple 'I enjoyed your story, write another' types;
maybe 10% are ebbulent praise when a story merits it.  I'd bet that
only that 10% would nominate or vote, if that.  So every one of
those votes might well represent 1,000 or more happy readers...

"That's a lot of shared joy."

My Muse smiled.  I doubted she agreed with my math, but it does
paint a pleasant picture.  "You said, 'winners.'  I take it we have
another tie?"

I nodded.

"So which are they, and which authors get to share all that joy?"

I essayed a crooked grin.  "She's new.  And she's making as big a
splash in her debut as Katie or Oosh or Selena."

"'She,' singular?"

I nodded again.  "The Winners of the Silver Clitorides Award for the
best stories of August, 2003, are Reunion and The General, by Girl
Friday.  Congratulations, GF, and well done to all the nominees and
finalists!"
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The August 2003 Silver Clitorides Awards Nominees and Finalists.

Story                             Author               Status
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Cold Stone                        Julie Hypnotic       Nominee
/~Julie_Hypnotic/coldstone.html
/~Julie_Hypnotic/

Dance of a Lifetime Book 4: Betsy Frank Downey         Nominee
/~Frank_Downey/doal04.htm
/~Frank_Downey/

Easy                              artie                Nominee
/~artie/easy.html
/~artie/

Eddies                            Dryad                Finalist
/~Dryad/eddies.html
/~Dryad/

Emergency                         Parthenogenisis      Nominee
/~parthenogenesis/flash/emergency.htm
/~parthenogenesis/

Fiona's Faraday's Fables-Volume 1 Julie Hypnotic       Nominee
/~Julie_Hypnotic/fionasfables1.html
/~Julie_Hypnotic/

Giggle                            Frank Downey         Nominee
/~Frank_Downey/giggle.htm
/~Frank_Downey/

Going Greek                       Smilodon             Finalist
/~smilodon/TimMach01.htm
/~smilodon/

History	                          Number 6             Nominee
/~number_6/history.html
/~number_6/

Memories of Flight 109            Ann Douglas          Finalist
/~Ann_Douglas/memories.html
/~Ann_Douglas

Naked in School: Susan            .B                   Nominee
/~dotB_StoryTyme/NIS/Susan%2000.html
/~dotB_StoryTyme/

Reunion                           Girl Friday          Winner
/files/Authors/Girl_Friday/Reunion.txt
/~Girl_Friday/

Scroll To My Spartan Lover ~Or~
 Song Of Tymareta                 Planet Dweller       Nominee
/~PlanetDweller/ScrollToMySpartanLover.html
/~PlanetDweller/

Tempest                           Frank Downey         Nominee
/~Frank_Downey/tempest.htm
/~Frank_Downey/

The Game                          Girl Friday          Nominee
/files/Authors/Girl_Friday/The%20Game.txt
/~Girl_Friday/

The General                       Girl Friday          Winner
/~Girl_Friday/general.html
/~Girl_Friday/

The Price and The Cost            Uther Pendragon      Finalist
/~Uther_Pendragon/story/cost.htm
/~Uther_Pendragon/

The Spell                         Lon Ryden            Nominee
/~erosarts/asstr/Page_25x.html
/~erosarts/asstr/Page_1x.html

The Widows Severe                 Lon Ryden            Nominee
/~erosarts/asstr/Page_17x.html
/~erosarts/asstr/Page_1x.html

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