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You're in luck! See here: http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?20882-The-Constant-Reader-Awards-will-return-in-2018!

I completely agree, so how would we restructure the Round 2 polls? I'd still prefer to have three categories where we vote A, B, or C.

And we're gonna need a new 2014 sub-forum here and icon.

What would be your preference for the Round 2 polls? Round 3 can be worded Which book is better etc. no problem.

I think we could expand the Round 1 rating, I was actually just thinking about it. How about:


5
4.5
4
3.5
3
2.5
2

Sure thing, Jean.

In Round 1 each book is rated on its own merits using the following scale:


5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it

The groupings have no effect if we're just using straight 1 through 30 ranking, since each book is rated individually.

That's what I'm leaning toward, too.

Well the books in the First Round aren't competing against one another. They are all graded on their own merits. So we can go with a straight 1 through 30 ranking. I'm fine with either way. The way...

The brackets then would look like this:

Bracket 1:

Carrie
'Salem's Lot
The Shining
Rage
Night Shift

Since it looks like the Dark Tower novels will indeed participate in the upcoming Constant Reader Awards as eight separate entries, the above bracket list will have to be restructured. I'd like more...

If we leave off the eight DT novels for the upcoming awards voting, we may not need very much restructuring, just rewording of the actual vote questions (because I like the internal grading system...

I was thinking that early in 2014 we begin our sometimes annual Constant Reader Awards and I would like to restructure the bracketing and the grading system. I would love to hear suggestions. The...

With tons respect due, I don't really see how voting for The Dark Tower as one book will be beneficial. They are all very different books. Some are great (The Drawing of the Three, Song of Susannah),...

Jean, you often talk about the quality of the actual writing, and I think that would make a good grading category, how well a book is written.

Well, first, thanks for the gratitude, but I wasn't the one who designed the polls, actually. It was Aaron, and I believe it's a fair and balanced system, touching upon all the main parts of a novel...

Jean, if you have anything in mind, I'd love to discuss it with you.