A Novel Challenge: Cybils Award Challenge 2010

December 1, 2009 - December 31, 2010

Michelle from GalleySmith is hosting the Cybils Award Challenge for 2010 where participants are encouraged to read from The Cybils Award nominees for the given year.

Guidelines:

Anyone can join, you don’t have to blog to play along
Challengers can choose to participate in as many of the categories listed below as they want
Challengers may not mix books from across multiple categories
Challengers do not need to construct a reading list just decide as you go however the mood strikes you
Challengers may participate at any of the levels indicated below
All books used as part of the challenge must be from the 2009 reading lists linked below
Books read can overlap with other challenges you are participating in
Challengers can read in any format (ie: audio, e-book, print)

Levels of Participation:

Categorically Speaking – choose to read all books in a category
Halfway There – choose to read 50% of books in a category
Rule of Fours – choose to read 1/4 or 3/4 of books in a category
Pick A Number – choose to read a specific number of books in a category
Shorties Rule – choose to read books in a specific short list (finalists will be publicized Jan 1, 2010)

The categories include:

Michelle will be offering author interviews, guest posts, giveaways and a grand prize drawing for a $100 gift card to Borders Books. To qualify for entry in the drawing a challenger must choose the “Categorically Speaking” level of participation, must complete all books within that category and must post a review of each either on a blog, a social networking site or bookstore site (ie: Amazon, B&N, Borders or some other store you may affiliate with).

Interested? To learn more, visit the post about the challenge. To sign up, visit the sign up page.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Cybils Award Challenge 2010