Call for Judges and Two Announcements

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It’s almost time to begin the 5th Annual BookTube Prize. Would you like to be one of our judges in 2023? Please share this video with your bookish contacts. So many people mention to me that they didn’t know when or where to sign up. If you all include it in your own videos/posts, our reach will expand quite a bit.
Here’s the form to sign up to be a judge for 2023:
forms.gle/N3Ra...
If you’re interested in buying one of the BookTube Prize journals (USA only, unfortunately), they are $25, which includes shipping. Send me an email at robertsheard at mac dot com and I’ll share my Venmo contact information and you can tell me which style and color you’d like.
This is what I have left:
RULED PAPER
Blue Slate (6), Yellowgold (7), Charcoal (8), Light Gray (9), Stone (10), Fig Wine (7)
DOT GRID PAPER
Blue Slate (10), Yellowgold (4), Charcoal (10), Light Gray (9)
BookTubePrize Media:
Website - booktubeprize.org
Instagram - / booktubeprize
#BookTubePrize #BookTube #CallForJudges

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27 сен 2024

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Комментарии : 63

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

So excited this is back around again already!

@CriminOllyBlog Год назад

I think the idea of a monetary prize makes a lot of sense.

@StephanieJCohen Год назад

Signed up for my 3rd year! Looking forward to it!!

@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf Год назад

Last year was my first year and I found my absolute favourite book of the year through the Octafinals! The books I read also opened my mind to reading genres I thought I wasn’t interested in before, so I have a lot to thank the prize for. Very excited to join in again! Thanks Robert. 😊

@BookTubePrize Год назад

That's absolutely the best aspect of the event in my mind. Each year I find some favorites I would have missed. Last year for me it was Claire Keegan and Percival Everett. Loved their books and never would have found either on my own. (And both of them have books on this coming year's nomination list. Bonus.)

Год назад

It would be great if we had a financial reward for the winners, yes, absolutely. I don't do US law, so unfortunately I'm of no use for that process. But I'd love to help in any other way required in the future.

@BookTubePrize Год назад

C'mon Britta, get on that US license.

Год назад

@@BookTubePrize Slacker, me. 😅

@Jennikreads Год назад

I am so excited to join in the judging this year after following along for years.

@Jennikreads Год назад

Also love the idea of a financial prize to the winners and creating a non-profit. No experience to offer here, but I love this potential move! Also will be emailing about the journals.

@girlsaint Год назад

Hurray! I'm so glad to see this is back around!

@vickyouimet6803 Год назад

Yes, I would love a financial prize attached to the award!

@illustratorsam Год назад

Yay! I squealed when I got the email for call for judges! 🤗

@KetevanReads Год назад

Just signed up to be a judge--very excited! I agree that a financial prize is excellent, but I can't help with the logistics at all. Here's hoping it can happen!

@m-vickyprince3663 Год назад

Thank you for sharing this video. I really missed your weekly post. I am very excited this is back this year. I have enjoyed following BookTube Prize since the beginning. I am excited to see the list.

@BookTubePrize Год назад

Glad to have you back!

@alanscheer2137 11 месяцев назад

This is new for me so I’m reading all of the posts. I’m currently on my eighth and nineth giller prize long-list so I like to read a lot of books. When the time comes I’d look to put my hat in the ring..your work is very professional.When I look at the 2023 selection,I know a lot of the works and I wish I could read more. Are you familiar with the Bookmarks magazine.. Every issue brings reviews from around the U.S. on the latest releases. I am also a Canadian and a huge reader of Canadian lit so I have something to add there. Thank-you for all of the work you are doing. I’m very happy I found your site.

@BookTubePrize 11 месяцев назад

Yes, I’m a regular reader of Bookmarks for the reviews. It’s a challenge keeping up with all the releases without many good resources.

@LiteraryGladiators Год назад

I absolutely believe that you should work your way toward making this a nonprofit that awards monetary prizes to the winner(s) of the Booktube Prize. I think that this prize should be taken as seriously as any other prize, because it is authentic and ran with such integrity. Unfortunately, I think it is best that I sit out of judging the 2023 prize, because I have quite a few projects planned for my own channel that will require great effort. I will consider hopping back in for 2024, for I would love to be at a point where I can judge all four rounds. Thank you for sharing! -Josh

@BookTubePrize Год назад

Thanks, Josh. No worries about judging some years and not others. Happy to have the support.

@drawyourbook876 Год назад

I hate legal paperwork too, but it would be great to manage to set up an organization. Also, I wanted to just say, congratulations to Newcastle, they are killing it this year and I know you support them 😅

@BookTubePrize Год назад

Fingers crossed they can keep it up! 😂⚽️

@MissMaupassant Год назад

I've never heard of this prize. Its a wonderful idea. Specially for those (like me) who are overwhelmed in terms of new releases and prefer to go straight to the top picks 🤗

@BookTubePrize Год назад

So glad you found us. We don’t get any press because we aren’t giving away pots of gold (yet), but I think those who get involved love it. Welcome!

@ameliabarlowbooks Год назад

I think becoming a non-profit is a great idea, Robert - thank you for all of the hard work that you continue to put into this. I'll share across my socials and expand the reach, hopefully between us all, we'll find someone within the community to help with the legal aspects and the paperwork!

@BookTubePrize Год назад

Thanks, Amelia. We'll figure it out somehow. My goal is that the nonprofit will be in place before we start year 6.

@FreshlyReadBooks Год назад

So excited about this! I discovered this prize for the first time last year and I'm so excited to join in on it this year 😊 I think becoming a non-profit would be a great way to expand the prize and give it more notoriety. I don't know a ton about applying to be a non-profit, but I believe depending on the state you do it through, you would need a number of incorporators/directors. I'm happy to help in that way or any other I can! I don't have much background with that kind of stuff, but over the past year I've found myself helping with some government requests for myself and others and I'm starting to understand how to find stuff on terrible state websites haha so that might be worth something!

@BookTubePrize Год назад

Thanks, Sarah. Someone is currently doing some research on what it takes to open a nonprofit. Baby steps.

@alanscheer2137 11 месяцев назад

I am going through all of the videos. You speak very well. Is the best way to read all of the past nominees on listopia? I’m enjoying all if your videos.

@BookTubePrize 11 месяцев назад

You can find year-by-year lists on our website under the results tab. Booktubeprize.org

@aliciareadsinbr Год назад

I’m ready for year number two for me. I think a nonprofit is a great idea. I don’t have experience or knowledge in setting one up but, I’m sure there’s someone up to the task. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and I’ll be on the lookout for your emails. ❤

@BookTubePrize Год назад

Glad you're in for another year!

@ReadingintheDriftless Год назад

Robert - do you still need help with the nonprofit? My wife and I would be very interested in helping.

@BookTubePrize Год назад

messaged you. Thanks, Steve.

@Megora07 Год назад

My favorite thing about the BTP is that by the time it’s over, we are into the holiday season and by the time the holidays are over, it starts again. A full year of reading wonderful books and expanding one’s horizons. This will be my third year judging and I can’t wait. I always sign up for all categories and have read some fantastic nonfiction that I never would have picked up (fiction reader through and through) had it not been for this prize. Very much looking forward to next year’s journey. Thank you, Robert, for all your hard work and hopefully a volunteer reaches out to help make this the event that you envision.

@BookTubePrize Год назад

You've touched on exactly what I like the most about the prize-finding books I otherwise would have missed.

@BookwormAdventureGirl Год назад

Thanks for all the work you put into The BookTube Prize. Your thoughts about the future of the prize is exciting. I know nothing about doing any of that stuff but I’m hoping someone does. 😊💙

@BookTubePrize Год назад

Fingers crossed!

@katb.78 Год назад

I didn't quite understand, when and how we know, if we are part of the first round?

@BookTubePrize Год назад

Sorry I didn't see this right away. No one found out about first-round assignments until today's release.

@janethansen9612 Год назад

How did this year go so fast? I think becoming a non profit and the ability to offer some sort of prize would give the Booktube prize some weight in the bookish community. Signing up for my 2nd year right now.

@BookTubePrize Год назад

Glad to have you back, Janet.

@LesReadBooks Год назад

Just saying Hi, Robert! I’m so disconnected from Booktube and social media/bookish stuff so I would be worthless as a judge. Good Luck!

@BookTubePrize Год назад

Leslie! You're alive! I've stepped back from making videos for now on my personal channel. Who knows, I may convert it to a whisky channel. 😂🥃

@LesReadBooks Год назад

@@BookTubePrize that’d be fun! I was reading outlander and they talk about Whisky allllll the time. I have never enjoyed it before but now I want some. Maybe if I ever get to Scotland. :)

@BookTubePrize Год назад

@@LesReadBooks I've always enjoyed a bourbon here and there, but never really paid much attention to it until lockdown. Since then I've become a huge Scotch fan. I'm a total newb, but it's been a fun journey so far.

@marcellaandherbooks8733 Год назад

I'm excited to be signing up for my first round as someone with a booktube channel! I have one question regarding the translated division. Can judges read the translation into their own language, or does it have to be the english translation? I can imagine that different translation will give some books a unfair (dis)advantage, but I know that translations from into my own language are sometimes a lot easier to come by.

@BookTubePrize Год назад

Welcome aboard, Marcella. We do ask that you only read the English edition in all divisions so that everyone is judging the same text.

@themusicsnob Год назад

Yay thank you for running this event! I am so excited to take part again next year 🙌

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Год назад

Excited to sign up for my third year. Judging translated fiction this year brought me a couple of top books of my year that I would not have found otherwise. I think setting up as a nonprofit is a great idea and a good first step towards the goal of being able to offer a financial prize. I suspect you will need US folk to help as you will be registering it there so I won't offer. But say if you think otherwise.

@BookTubePrize Год назад

We need to take over the world, Ros! 😂 Booker prize? What's that?

@DustyBookSniffers Год назад

Wow, that time of year already... looking forward to this 😊 thank you for all the work you do 😊

@Raereadswithgrace Год назад

A financial prize would definitely legitimize the award. I’d love to see that happen.

@ChaoticBibliophile Год назад

Yay!! So exciting~ Already signed up to be a judge yet another year! The non-profit goal sounds AMAZING. I am definitely not qualified to help with paperwork, but hopefully there'll be US people who come through so the prize continues to grow c:

@BookTubePrize Год назад

I hope so, too. I may research some local attorneys who would handle it all.

@elizeyt Год назад

oh it would be AMAZING to have an official meet up where the winners were revealed!

@BookTubePrize Год назад

We did it (very small) the first year, but then, of course, lockdown has ruined that plan since. We may try again in 2023.

@BobTheBookerer Год назад

On the financial bit, that does sound like a good idea, but I suppose it would be whether it would be sustainable to do year on year. In terms of the paperwork, I’m happy to help a little but might not have tons of time!

@BookTubePrize Год назад

Totally agree! To make it sustainable means long-term sponsorship or an endowment. The endowment would take time to build to the point where it's sustainable without commercial sponsorship. It all depends upon how much the prize money is.

@cheryllovestoread Год назад

Can I ask a question or two? I think Id like to help with translated works, but I live in a rural area with a limited local library. Inter-library loan is a slow process and, honestly, I’m on a very fixed income. So, I guess I want to know if it’s even reasonable to try participating? May I ask if most of the books are available in Kindle?

@BookTubePrize Год назад

I think a lot of them are available on Kindle, but to be fair, the Translated division is sometimes the hardest to find. My advice would be to sign up. If you can't get some of them books, as long as you let me know right away, we can find a replacement for you that round and try again in the next round. Also check out your library's resources through Libby or Hoopla if they offer those. There's also a paid subscription service, Scribd, that has many of the books. It's $8 or $9 a month, I think.

@LiteraryMultitudes Год назад

I'm already signed up and very excited for the new round! 🤩 I feel the same about the Booktube Prize becoming a non-profit and being able to offer a financial reward - it would certainly add prestige and recognition. (Unfortunately I'd be no help with any of that, though.) I admire all the work you put into it - thank you! ☺☺

@BookTubePrize Год назад

Yay! Thank you!