The Winners for October are ..............

Readers Choice Award - 'Over by Christmas'

Author's Choice Award - 'Ashes to the Vistula'

Congratulations to both authors for winning what has been the toughest competition so far. Particularly close on the heels was 'Soft Target'.

Voting has now finished for October and any that come in will count towards the November Awards.

Thanks to everyone who voted for making this such a gripping month!

All Change & Just 24 Hours to Go!

This time tomorrow there will be just a few minutes of voting left and the latest positions have changed again.

With over 500 votes cast for the top 2 books in the Reader's Award alone this month, a new record has been set. 'Over by Christmas' is now in the lead for the Reader's Choice Award ahead of 'Soft Target'.

The Author's have come out strongly for 'Ashes to the Vistula' which now leads 'Over by Christmas'.

It could all still change again for October as the votes continue to come in.

Good luck to all the authors!
Pete

Less than 48 Hours to go......

With less than 48 hours to go, the voting couldn't be closer. In both categories there are just a handful of votes seperating the leading books and all of the top ten positions are close.

The latest positions will be updated today - but on the present count, it is just too close to call!

Changes at the Top!

Changes for both the Reader's Choice and Author's Choice Awards today!

'Soft Target' has nudged ahead with our Readers but yielded to top position to 'Over by Christmas' with our Authors. These two titles are seperated by a handful of votes in the final days of this month.

New Votes - New Guidelines Page!

Today's voting has made no difference to the rankings but 'Over by Christmas' is pulling away in the Reader's Choice Award and closing on 'Ashes to the Vistula' for the Author's Choice. If this trend continues, we could have our first double winner!

At present though, 'Ashes to the Vistula' holds on to the lead in what has been the highest voting activity amongst our Authors. Just a few days to go now!

The rules for voting have caused some confusion so I hope everyone will find the new page helpful which explains the way it works. Voters should check these rules before casting their vote to ensure their vote will contribute to the success of their chosen author.

Keep the votes coming!

Pete

What a difference a day makes!

Actually, two days really but in those we have seen 8 new nominations for the Author's Choice Award and lots of votes for both as the month runs towards an end on the 28th (for voting purposes).

The main position changes have been in the Author's Choice with 'Ashes to the Vistual' edging ahead of 'Over by Christmas'. The voting has been very close and there have been some duplicate entries which had to be removed to give a fair total. Most positions have changed over the past 48 hours.

Although many votes have come in for the Reader's Choice Award, there has been no change in position with 'Over by Christmas' leading 'Soft Target' at the moment.

Needless to say, with the positions so close and only a few days left every vote counts for both awards.

So keep the votes coming!

Pete

48 Hours News Embargo!

Nothing sinister but I will be away for a couple of days so the next update on the voting will be Thursday evening.

I'm pleased to report new nominations coming in for the Reader's Choice Award so let's hope the votes follow soon and they move up the ratings.

Currently 'Over by Christmas' retains the leading position just ahead of 'Soft Target' for the Reader's Award. 'The Devil's Trinity' leads 'Over by Christmas' in our Author's contest this month.

The positions have shuffled around on page one of the Awards so far this week so check your favorite title and don't forget to support it with your vote.

Pete

New Look Nominations Page !

Having re-vamped the News page, I set out to improve the Nominations page for Reader's and Author's Choice Awards.

You may find a few seconds delay as with the News page, this is a slight downside but I hope you will not find it a pain.

Thanks to Amazon's aStores I will be able to change the rank orders, add and remove titles much easier from now on. I hope you agree we also get a more consistent appearance.

This way of doing it ony shows the Top Nine titles on the first page for each category but you can now see further titles down the list by clicking other pages. This will give some exposure to newly nominated titles.

This should be available from the afternoon of Tuesday (20th) this week.

Keep those votes coming in !

Pete

Waiting in the Wings

New titles waiting in the wings!

Just in case the top ten are relaxing, the news is that more titles are waiting in the wings. Recently nominated but not quite enough votes yet to show. My guess is they will be listing quite soon and the order will change once again. 

So keep those votes coming in for your favorite titles, we're over half way through the month now.

Book News - The votes

Some of you will have noticed that each time we post news, the www.AmazonClicks.com website has to be changed. So here is a new idea!

We will post our news updates to this Blog which is MUCH easier to update and leaves the site intact. The Nominations page will still be updated manually for now but the next step will be to improve that.

The main news our visitors look for is progress on the voting so here is the first update.

Over by Christmas is back on top again! There really is a race going on for the Reader's Choice Award this month and Soft Target has slipped back to second place. The votes keep coming !

Pete