Predators and Editors poll

[kailhofer]

I see we're running in a tie for 9th right now. Hope we can do better. I don't think Aphelion has finished high for quite a few years.

So vote, already. Tell a friend.

[Robert_Moriyama]

I see we're running in a tie for 9th right now. Hope we can do better. I don't think Aphelion has finished high for quite a few years.

So vote, already. Tell a friend.

Um, are the Editorial Mafia allowed to vote for their own (well, Dan's) zine? Since MOST (but not all) the content is written by others, it isn't QUITE like voting for your own Flash Challenge story (which would look rather crass under the current system, and Nate would KNOW you were doing it)...

[kailhofer]

I see we're running in a tie for 9th right now. Hope we can do better. I don't think Aphelion has finished high for quite a few years.

So vote, already. Tell a friend.

Um, are the Editorial Mafia allowed to vote for their own (well, Dan's) zine? Since MOST (but not all) the content is written by others, it isn't QUITE like voting for your own Flash Challenge story (which would look rather crass under the current system, and Nate would KNOW you were doing it)...

But one votes for the zine as a whole, both the parts you "control" and all the rest that you don't. If it wasn't good as a complete package, (format, shorts, poetry, serials, features, flash, forum, etc.) then it wouldn't deserve your vote, but Aphelion is, so it does deserve it.

Nate

[Robert_Moriyama]

Unless a huge number of us voted yesterday, it looks like it only takes a few votes to move up (at least from 10th to 6th -- dunno how many votes the #1 and #2 choices may have).

[kailhofer]

I honestly don't know how many people vote in this. I did see that we've fallen to #8.

C'mon people, vote. Twitter, facebook, LJ, or whatever you do to get the word out. If the zine deserves it, then people need to know about the vote so they can indeed vote.

I looked at all the sites above us, and a number of them put the nomination notice right on their front page. I also noticed that pretty much all of them were paying or had print versions/anthologies as revenue streams. I think that Aphelion's completely free & no advertising name listed in the same group speaks volumes for the quality of the offerings in our little corner of the internet.

Nate

[kailhofer]

This morning, we're still listed in 8th, but if you count the ties, we're actually in 11th. So, sad. We're no longer top ten material.

I've looked at a lot of the popular vote getters, and frankly, they're pretty nice. I expect Aphelion looks rather stodgy in comparison, but I think we make it up in content quality.

Just as an aside, did anyone else notice how many of the top runners were flash magazines?

[Robert_Moriyama]

Short attention spans are a plague on -- oh, look, a squirrel!

I wonder if the literary agents looking for book-length material asked the flash-only (or mainly-flash) zines to provide their contact information... just a thought.

[kailhofer]

I wonder if the literary agents looking for book-length material asked the flash-only (or mainly-flash) zines to provide their contact information... just a thought.

From the rumors I've heard, the Ellenberg offer was made to quite a few zines but I have no idea on the amount of flash those zines cover.

Of course, no one made them offer, and no one else was offering like they did...

Nate

PS. We've now fallen to 12th.

[kailhofer]

Not sure at what point on the 14th (tomorrow) the voting stops for this, but currently, we're back in tenth.

So if you were on the fence or just missed the call, cast your vote today for Aphelion under fiction ezines and show that a zine born when the e-dinosaurs were babies can still run with the big dogs of the internet!

http://www.critters.org/predpoll/

[kailhofer]

Sorry guys...

All my peeps voted back on the beforementioned jump from 10 to 6 day.

You have peeps? I thought the stores stopped selling them after Easter. The traditional yellow ones were always my favorite.

Tragically, I see we've tumbled to 13th and are still falling. Others, like GUD, seemed to ave jumped like 10 places overnight.

[kailhofer]

As an aside, I happened to notice that someone nominated Aphelion in the best Writer's Forum section as well. We're 22nd at the moment.

Last day to vote!

[kailhofer]

They say they don't actually release the final results until February, after their anti-spam/tampering software has checked all the votes. There's still hope we can move up.

[kailhofer]

Just an FYI, the final results were released.

Officially, Aphelion finished 13th in the Fictionzine category, but if you count in the ties, it was 14th out of 82 nominees. Not too shabby, really.

As a Writer Forum, Aphelion finished 18th.

Frequent contributor Richard H. Fay was ranked 5th among the poets.