May 2012 GraveTells Book Awards: See our (and your) top picks!
Congratulations to our May Book Award winners!
Below are the books and authors who have been selected for our monthly book awards, by the reviewers and the readers. Â Enjoy!
Book of the Month
Choosing May’s Book of the Month was easy, and I say that with the utmost respect for all the books we reviewed this month. Â Rebecca Zanetti’s Hunted, the third in her Dark Protectors series, is a serious heavyweight. Â It has class, spunk, smarts, heart-pounding action, and a romance that will singe your fingers as you turn the pages! Â If you haven’t yet gotten your own copy, read on!
What reviewer DaVinciKittie had to say about Hunted…
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Reviewer Top Picks
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Readers Choice Awards
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From The Captain’s review of Crushed Seraphim…
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In a race to the finish with Hunted author Rebecca Zanetti, Tonya Macalino has been crowned our May 2012 Readers Choice Favorite Author! Â Congratulations, Tonya! Â Check out Tonya’s guest spot here.
More about Tonya…
Read more about Tonya Macalino on her website and blog. See the full results of this month’s Readers Choice voting here. |
How do we choose the winners?
I’m sure you’re wondering how we make these decisions. Â Here’s the skinny…
For Reviewer Top Pick (formerly Reviewer’s Choice), each GT reviewer that posted a review for the selection month gets a number of votes equalling their total reviews posted for that month. Â They can spend those votes, in whatever split or block they want, on any book that earned a 4.0/5 or higher rating in its GT review. Â The book(s) with a combination of the highest vote total and the highest number of reviewers who voted for it wins the honor and gets the nifty little silver ribbon on its book cover across our site.
For Book of the Month, the selection is a little more complicated and it is chosen solely by me.  As Executive Editor of the site, I take several factors into consideration, but most importantly, the book must have a minimum 4.5/5 rating and its review (if I haven’t personally read it) or story (if I have read it myself) needs to be memorable and have impact.  It’s largely based on “gut” feeling, so it’s hard to spell out the specific metric for you guys, but basically it’s an informed subjective decision that I make each month, and I don’t take that lightly.
Finally, the Readers Choice awards for Favorite Author and Favorite Story are chosen by you guys every month in our end-of-month public voting! Â Thanks to everyone who participated this month and help spread the word to support your favorite authors and books!
Where can I get those cover badges for my site?
Want to display our awards on your site? Â Whether you’re an author, publisher, fellow blogger, or enthusiastic reader, we’d be honored for you to share the GraveTells awards in your sidebar, post, or homepage! Â Right-click the images above to save them locally and upload them to your own server, or you can link directly to them by right-clicking and selecting “copy image URL”. Â If you need a specific type of image or more instructions, email me and I’d be happy to help! Â =)
Congrats to the books and authors!