Won’t be entering anything for a few days. Spending every waking moment preparing the VCON 38 program book.

Voting for the 2013 Canadian Fanzine Fanac Awards (‘Faneds’) is now complete. Winners will be announced at VCON 38 Oct 4-6. Here are some stats concerning the awards:

19 voters (almost twice as many as I anticipated) which equals 151 votes awarding 294 points to 25 nominee positions based on 18 actual nominees (some nominees being up for more than one category). Some voters chose fewer nominees than the maximum number they were entitled to vote for, presumably because these were the only choices they were familiar with.

Each voter was allowed 3 votes in each category (except for one category where there were only two nominees) in order of preference, for a maximum of 11 votes per voter. Points were awarded on the basis of vote preference: first choice = 3 points, 2nd choice = 2 points, and 3rd choice = 1 point.

Maximum number of votes a nominee could receive = 57. Most votes any winner received = 40. Least votes any nominee received = none.

Great and wonderful things about the voting include:

A) There is no evidence of block voting. Voters were evenly distributed across the country: 9 from British Columbia, 6 from Ontario, and 4 from Quebec.

B) The vote, meagre as it is (but then, so is the scope and scale of Canadian Fanzine Fanac), is truly a peer sponsored award, in that — as far as I am aware — almost all the voters were or are active in Canadian fanzine fandom: 8 = current, active Faneds; 5 = Faneds active in the past; 3 = current contributors to zines; 3 = readers.

My thanks to them as voted: Keith Braithwaite, Lindsay Brown, R. Graeme Cameron, Paula Johanson, Cathy Palmer-Lister, Steve Fahnestalk, Keith Lim, Jenni Merrifield, Murray Moore, Andrew C. Murdoch, Lloyd Penney, Yvonne Penny, Lester Rainsford, Garth Spencer, Sylvain St-Pierre, Felicity Walker, Taral Wayne, Neil Williams, Rose Wilson.

I note that 3 well-known Faneds of the past declined to vote on the grounds they were not aware of the contemporary zine scene. Fair enough.

Considering that the first Faned Awards (2011) were awarded on the basis of my personal fiat, and the second (2012) on the basis of scattered suggestions, this first actual vote is a major if incremental step forward. All things considered, I am very pleased.

1) Converted ( M ) — from  MAD COMICS to MOTA  in LEGENDS & LORE into a complete Canfancyclopedia listing, under Fan History, Canadian Fancyclopedia.

2) Converted ( N ) — from  NEOTRIC to  NYDAHL’S DISEASE in LEGENDS & LORE into a complete Canfancyclopedia listing, under Fan History, Canadian Fancyclopedia.

3) Converted ( O ) — from OBLIQUE HOUSE  to OZARK LOVE CAMP  in LEGENDS & LORE into a complete Canfancyclopedia listing, under Fan History, Canadian Fancyclopedia.
 

2013 Canadian Fanzine Fanac Awards vote now complete. Results & stats will be released tomorrow. But Mike Glyer of FILE 770 < http://file770.com/ > has been given advance info and will be posting it at his site soon (I hope).

Meanwhile, slogging along with the VCON 38 Program Book composition. It is to ARRGH with frustration! But its slowly taking shape.

1) Added BCSFAzine (#484) September 2013 — edited by Felicity Walker, under Clubs, BC Clubs, BCSFA, BCSFAzines you can read, Felicity Zines.

2) Converted ( K ) — from  KHAMSIN to KTP  in LEGENDS & LORE into a complete Canfancyclopedia listing, under Fan History, Canadian Fancyclopedia.

3) Converted ( L ) — from  LACKTIVITY to LOYAL AND BENEVOLENT ORDER OF WOLLHEIM STOOGES  in LEGENDS & LORE into a complete Canfancyclopedia listing, under Fan History, Canadian Fancyclopedia.

1) Converted ( H ) — from HALCON SF & FANTASY SOCIETY to HYDRA NORTH in LEGENDS & LORE into a complete Canfancyclopedia listing, under Fan History, Canadian Fancyclopedia.

2) Converted ( I ) — from  IAOPUMUMSTFPUSA to “IT’S A PROUD AND LONELY THING TO BE A FAN.”  in LEGENDS & LORE into a complete Canfancyclopedia listing, under Fan History, Canadian Fancyclopedia.

3) Converted ( J ) — from JOE FANN to JUSTIFICATION in LEGENDS & LORE into a complete Canfancyclopedia listing, under Fan History, Canadian Fancyclopedia.

1) Converted ( G ) — from GANGLION OF FOUR to GUELPH SCIENCE/FANTASY GUILD in LEGENDS & LORE into a complete Canfancyclopedia listing, under Fan History, Canadian Fancyclopedia.

2) Added contents list at top of page for ( A-G ) entries in Canfancyclopedia.

A longtime friend of mine, Nico Iormetti, a fixture in Vancouver fandom for decades, paid me a very nice compliment regarding this website:

“It’s so simple and clear, easy to navigate. You can find whatever you’re looking for right away. Wonderfully easy to browse through. You know what you’ve done? You’ve created a typical 1990s website back in the day  when the object was to show content rather than bury it beneath prettified layout. Offers what it offers and nothing more. Congratulations! It’s a good website.”

I was very pleased to hear this. Exactly my intent.

1) Converted ( F ) — from FALCON to FUTURE FANTASY FRENCH in LEGENDS & LORE into a complete Canfancyclopedia listing, under Fan History, Canadian Fancyclopedia.

Spending most of my day working on the program book for the upcoming VCON 38.

1) Converted ( E ) — from EDITOR to ESPERANTO in LEGENDS & LORE into a complete Canfancyclopedia listing, under Fan History, Canadian Fancyclopedia.

My web site fanac is going to slow for awhile as I deal with VCON deadlines. For instance, I just mailed off all the manuscripts to be critiqued by the 21 participants in the 3 writers workshps at VCON 38.

Nice to note that two of the pros who will be attending the workshops just won awards at LoneStarCon 3, the 71st World Convention, in Texas. Dan Wells netted BEST RELATED WORK HUGO for ‘Writing Excuses Season Seven,’ and Mur Lafferty won the JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER. Huzzah!

1) Converted ( D ) — from DABBLERS to DWF MERIT AWARDS in LEGENDS & LORE into a complete Canfancyclopedia listing, under Fan History, Canadian Fancyclopedia.

After consultation with the other SMOFF (Secret Master of Faned Fandom) Taral Wayne, who does the Award Certificates, it has been decided to extend the Faned Awards vote to:

NEW DEADLINE:

Midnight, Pacific Mountain Time, Sunday, September 8th.

For info, see August 30th Blog.