Jane, yes, I know, but the ranking was done by you guys not us. I know this might make the logistics harder, but I think it would be more fun if we had gotten to submit a list for all categories ranked 1-8.

The computation then would figure out which four were the most picked in each category (assign numerical values 1-8 for position 1-8 and then the four with the lowest number in each category are advanced. You still end up with 4 YA, Erotica, Historica, etc. books.

At that point, you pit the four best YA against the 4 best Novels with Rom Elements, and so on.

I understand that part of the fun for you guys is to see which high seated book kicks out which other high seated one early one, but if this is about which book is truly the most liked, that kind of match shouldn’t come until the end.

Sorry, I wasn’t clear, Nora.

And I’m tanking on the picks today, so far I might get one… sniffle.

Oh and I am going on reader buzz for anything that I didn’t read which is a lot. Also, looking at the books winning each round makes me want to read them, too.

The slates don’t start competing until the Elite 8 when the category v. contemporary winners face off against each other.

You might be disagreeing with the seeding of the slates. For example, in the highly competitive contemporary category the seed was as follows:

1. Mad Dash
2. High Noon
3. Natural Born Charmer
4. Erotic Secrets of a French Maid
5. Your Mouth Makes Me Crazy
6. Whispering Rock
7. Agnes & the Hitman
8. Topaz

Topaz was a mistake as Dr. Laura V pointed out. We’ll have to do a better job at this next time.

But keep the suggestions coming. We do plan to do this annually and have made ALOT of mistakes this time. We’ll probably have to have a post mortem post where everyone can throw out some ideas about making changes. But I am sooo glad everyone is having fun because that really is the whole point.