Last year you all had great fun voting for your favourite M/M author. Josh Lanyon won as your favourite M/M author for 2011 by a landslide. Now it’s time to vote again and unfortunately Josh is not eligible because he won last year, so this means that someone else has a chance to shine. It’s hard to beat Josh if he’s in any competition so the other authors have a huge chance to make an impact.
The nominations are now open and there are no rules except that the author must write male/male romance. It doesn’t matter how long your nominees have been writing in the genre or if they occasionally write in other genres, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the eventual winner will be someone who writes M/M exclusively or at least whose major output is in M/M.
So who will be crowned this year’s winner? You, the readers will decide because only readers can vote.
Please leave your nominations in the comments to this post and we will keep the contest open for 2 weeks. The top 5 nominees in terms of votes from readers will move on to the voting where you will elect a new champion.
Nominations are now open and will close at midnight EST on January 14, 2013. You can only nominate one author unless your nominees are part of a writing team. If you nominate more than one author we will choose the first name on your list as your nominee.
Vaughn R Demont
Brandon Shire, Amelia C. Gormley, Rose Christo and of course Amy Lane
Amy Lane, Piper Vaughn, MJ O’Shea
Harper Fox, Rhys Ford, Abigail Roux, Sean Kennedy, Con Riley and Kaje Harper
One name/team? Yikes…
I put all my chosen names in a hat and pulled out Abigail Roux
One name is so unfair 😉
I want to nominate JP Barnaby
Abigail Roux, Rhys Ford, Ethan Day, LA Witt, Mary Calmes there’s just so many amazing Authors out there
Josephine Myles
It’s so difficult, I wanted to write down so many names, but be it as it is: Kaje Harper
JL Merrow would be my top pick.
J.P. Barnaby, hands down.
Jordan Castillo Price (but if could nominate 2 writers, I would also nominate Harper Fox)
Mary Calmes. I wish I could give you a list because there are so many good ones out there.
If I have to choose one, Ethan Day
Jordan Castillo Price.
Aleksandr Voinov if I only can choose one. He’s my newest favourite. 🙂
I would like to nominate Neil S. Plakcy
I would like to nominate Kaje Harper.
I nominate KZ Snow.
Kaje Harper. 🙂
Sean Kennedy wrote my favourite book this year, so he gets my vote. 🙂
Abigail Roux ^^
My nomination is Harper Fox.
hello,
this year, I have enjoyed reading Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon,josh Lanyon, Jet Mykles and a lot of great ones. But I have just read a fantastic book: Laurel heights, by Lisa Worral, and I loved it! So, I’d like to vote for her.
My comment was a bit too short, okay then – Rosee Christo, Rose Christo, Rose Christo.
I nominate Rhys Ford. ^__^
Abigail Roux, Amy Lane, Andrew Grey
(Really, it’s HARD to choose :D.)
I nominate Abigail Roux
Ryan Loveless
I adored Ethan, Who Loved Carter
And thank you to those who nominated me, it’s such an honor. <3
Since I’ve already seen some of my other favorites listed and we can only suggest one author……
Kate Sherwood
Aleksandr Voinov & Abigail Roux 🙂
I nominate Amy Lane.
She wrote so many great stories in 2012. I loved reading them.
One name…ack..that is not possible and some really great authors have already been named.
I nominate Tara Lain, Megan Derr and Julie Bozza.
Rhys Ford is my choice this year
Yes, i’d like to nominate Julie Bozza as well. I’ll be ever grateful toa certain someone who inspired this author to write one of the most wondrous novels I’ve read this year.
I nominate Abigail Roux.
Abigail Roux because she had two terrific additions to the Cut & Run series this year and S.A. McAuley for her fabulous new book An Immovable Solitude! 😀
I nominate SE Jakes. 😀
Lisa Henry or Rhys Ford or Abigail Roux or L.C. Chase or Amy Lane. Oh the hell with it I can’t choose.
I nominate Heidi Cullinan. Others I think are great have already been nominated, so hopefully this will get them all on the final list and I can wait til then to agonize over who to vote for!!
I nominate Jordan Castillo Price.
Amy Lane! I love her and I love her books! Amy Lane, Amy Lane, Amy Lane!
Chris T Kat! A new author who’s written several wonderful books.
Jordan Castillo Price. She had some great books come out this year.
I love TJ Klune.
Bailey Bradford
love her worlds 🙂
One of my favorite…..Abigail Roux!
I nominate the fantastic writing team of Anah Crow and Dianne Fox.
I nominate Jay Bell and Con Riley!
I nominate Isa K. because The Condor made my whole year.
Marie Sexton..luv her books, can’t wait for the 3rd Oestend book
Geoffrey Knight
Vicktor Alexander, Kaje Harper, JL Langley
I would like to nominate Cardeno C. 😀
Definitely TJ Klune
I nominate Parhelion, who does not get enough recognition! Really people, you should try some of Parhelion’s stories, and you’ll be a fan for sure! 😎
Heidi Cullinan and Marie Sexton wrote a book together…does that count as 1 choice? :forit:
Hi Michelle
If you’re nominating them as a writing team that’s different to nominating Heidi and Marie as separate entities. Are you nominating these authors separately (in which case only Heidi’s nomination will count since her name appears first)? If you’re nominating them as a writing team that’s how their nomination will be counted.
I nominate Abi Roux.
For creating great love-to-hate-you characters, I’d like to nominate the team of Cat Grant and Rachel Haimowitz.
Also loved Harper Fox this year.
Guys
I noticed that many of you are submitting multiple nominees. This is just a reminder that if you nominate more than one M/M author only the first name will count unless it’s a writing partnership.
I nominate P.D. Singer, because she rocks and I always love her novels.
Angie, getting a bit more verbal because the comment system won’t let her just comment with a name 🙂
I want to give my vote to Amy Lane
Since JCP was already mentioned I’ll give my nom to J. L. Langley, unless this is considered our first vote and then in that case, give it to JCP.
Sharvie
I’ll tell you what I told others last year who nominated authors and decided to go with someone else, because that author was already nominated. If you don’t go with your nominee they may not make it to the next round. This is a numbers game as well – only the most nominated authors move on to the actual voting round and only 5 will make it.
I hope that clarifies things for you. 🙂
K.A. Mitchell 🙂
2nd try. My first one was rejected by the spam stopper.
I would like to nominate Julie Bozza
Difficult but I’d have to go with Tom Webb for Second Chances.
Jordan Castillo Price.
I’d like to nominate Harper Fox. 🙂
I nominate LC Chase.
Harper Fox for me
I see some great authors here, but would like to add S.A. Meade to the list. She is a newer author, and not as well known, but writes beautifully poignant M/M romances.
I nominate M.L. Rhodes
I’m going for Amy Lane, her back list has so many of my favourite rereads and I admire her for writing a mix of stuff, painful and pretty!
As a reader, can I nominate Amy Lane? I love so many others, but her guys get deepest into my heart.
If “only readers” means not authors at all then that’s cool too. She probably doesn’t need me 🙂
Kaje
What this means is that when the voting comes around only the readers can vote. However Authors can nominate another author. 🙂
I nominate Gillibran Brown
Amy Lane – if I really have to decide
Rhys Ford is my new favorite… I nominate her.
I nominate Tamara Allen, whose writing is wonderful. I’m not sure if she released anything this year, so if she doesn’t count, I’ll vote for Parhelion, another fabulous writer.
I nominate Kaje Harper for her recent novel Home Work part of the Life Lesson series. She is an awesome writer. 😀
Amy Lane. So much angst (she does it better than anyone!!), and yet I can trust that she’ll always gets her boys home safe. Her Johnnies series in particular just kills me.
Amy Lane amazes me with every one of her books. Fortunately I haven’t read all of her books yet.
Happy New Year everybody.
If I can only pick one, I would say JL Merrow. :yes:
This is really difficult choosing just one, but given that, I vote for Jordan Castillo Price.
My favourite m/m author will always be Josh Lanyon. His Adrien English series is a paradigm for the perfect gay love story and still unsurpassed.
Hi Juergen
I don’t want you to waste your vote (not that voting for Josh is a waste of anyone’s vote). Josh is not eligible because he won last year, so if you want to vote for someone else that’s okay.
Hard to pick only one. Megan Derr.
I put all my chosen names(20) in a cereal bowl. I pulled out L.A. Witt 🙂
You’re really going to make me choose between PD Singer and Eden Winters! **stamps feet**
I nominate Abigail Roux
I would like to nominate Abigail Roux. I love the Cut and Run series, the last book Stars & Stripes is my favorite and I’ve already pre-ordered the next ebook and print in the series. Can’t wait for it. I re read those stories ALL the time.
my firts try was rejected by the spam filter, I would nominate Amy Lane
It’s Jordan Castillo Price for me 🙂
Harper Fox would be my choice, there have been some amazing books this last year, but she shands out for me.
I vote for Gillibran Brown!
I mean nominate Gillibran Brown … sorry
This is so, so hard…but I will nominate Abby Roux
My favorite author of 2012 was Aleksandr Voinov. I read Skybound, Incursion and Scorpion last year. They were all amazing pieces of writing. :god:
Jo Myles
I’m going with Scott Sherman for 2012 (but Rhys Ford, Abigail Roux, Kaje Harper, Dani Alexander, Marshall Thornton, Neil Plakcy, Sean Kennedy, Mary Calmes, Jordan Castillo Price, Damon Suede, Victor Banis and TJ Klune were in close pursuit, not to mention my favorite author, Josh Lanyon)
Sorry, I had to get my list out there 😆
To be fair, maybe I should have done as Bogusia did and put the names in a hat….