Scribe Awards vs. Unreality SF Awards

[GHS]

These two awards where Star Trek books pop up for consideration are both fairly new (4 years for Scribe, 2 year for Unreality).

I'm struck by the fact that not only are the two awards not coming up with the same best Trek books, but they aren't even nominating the same books.

Anyone able to provide some insight on what would cause that? The Unreality poll seems to get enough votes that its results shouldn't be dismissed out of hand; also, they gave an award to Gods of Night, which suggests some amount of reason in the process. I think a small jury of professional writers decides the Scribes, but am not sure and have no idea how their nominations work.

 

[JD]

I think you hit the issue right on the head there. The USF awards are fan based, while the Scribe are proffesional.

 

[Defcon]

The Unreality-SF.net Story of the Year Poll is indeed fan based. First there is a roughly one week long nomination period where everyone can send in 3 nominees. After the nomination period is over the Top 10 stories are up for the final vote.

 

[Lorraine Anderson]

The Scribe awards are given by the International Association of Tie-In Writers. The member authors submit their own works for consideration, and, as listed on the web site,

"The judging committees are made up of three of your peers from within the organization, writers who know the unique obstacles and restrictions that tie-in writers face, because they are tie-in writers themselves. The judges will read all the submissions in their category and select both the nominees and the winners (a system patterned after the Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and the Private Eye Writers of America, among others)."

The web site for that is here: http://www.iamtw.org./awards-howtoenter.html .

I'm a member of this association because I had that little 900 word story published in SNW8... but, basically, I'm on the outside, looking into the window, because I've never written a novel . Ah, someday, maybe...