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Posted 2014-02-21 12:00 AM (#6528 - in reply to #6526)
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FeminineFantastique - 2014-02-20 11:27 PM I was thinking about setting up a public challenge for LGBT spec fic authors, but I'm finding the process a little intimidating - host blog? What's entailed in being a host? Is it, like, a lot of responsibility? *confused*

Hi FemFan, welcome to WWEnd!  Happy to have you aboard.

Setting up a challenge is really easy.  All you have to do is create a theme, which you've already got, explain the goals and rules for the challenge like how many books, how many reviews (if any) and how long you want the challenge to last (3, 6 or 12 months etc.).  You'll want to make a banner for you challenge too to draw the folks in and also give participants something they can post on their blogs etc.  I can help with that if you like or one of our other members can jump in to help too.  The last thing is to create a thread for your challenge where folks can discuss authors and books etc. and where you can answer any questions that come up.

That's the basics of a RYO challenge.  Your particular challenge may need a little further work/guidance on your part to help people get going.  I'm sure we have some (many?) LGBT authors on WWEnd but we don't track that info so there's no way for us to tell who the qualifying authors might me.  You'll want to post a list of recommended authors or point people to some off site resources where they can find that info.  We can add any traditionally published authors your challenge readers request though we've had precious little time to do much of that lately so delays are inevitable.  (We have a solution in the works but 60hr work weeks are making Dave a dull boy.)

I don't think it will be a lot of responsibility beyond that. People will look to you for a few answers and author recs etc. but you'll have other members who will pitch in to help each other out.

I say go for it!  I think if you look around you'll find most of our challenge hosts are having a good time with it.  We're all here to help in whatever way we can.

 


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