Romance Readers Reading Challenges discussion

The 2015 Year Long Buddy Read of Nalini Singh is coming to a close. It was a very successful effort and I think everyone who participated really enjoyed it.

Let's do it again!

Nominate an Author for a year long buddy read!

Do you have an author that you would like to read regularly throughout 2016? A buddy-read; something like a book each month with other interested members?

From October 15th -October 31st, nominate in this thread the author whose backlist you would like to dedicate some time to next year. Key considerations:
* Nominations will close October 31.
* The author must have at least 20 books on their backlist.
* You may not nominate more than one author.
* If the 'winning' author writes under more than one name, then all name combinations will be eligible to be read in the 2016 challenge.
* The following authors may not be submitted for the 2015 year long buddy read -
-JR Ward
-JD Robb/Nora Roberts
-Kristen Ashley
-Nalini Singh

Please stop by this thread and nominate an author for next year.

**If the author you were going to nominate has already been nominated, please feel free to second, third, etc. their nomination.**

The top vote getters will move on to a Poll on November 1st where you will get to vote for the winning author.

Nominations:

Authors for consideration-

Kresley Cole-2
Allyson James (Jennifer Ashley)
G.A. Aiken / Shelly Laurenston-2
Jill Shalvis-2
Molly Harper
Erin McCarthy-2
Lisa Renee Jones
Christine Warren
Megan Hart
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Shannon Stacey-2

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I'll nominate Kresley Cole

Allyson James (aka Jennifer Ashley)

G.A. Aiken / Shelly Laurenston

She was my second choice Elizabeth!

I will nominate Jill Shalvis

I can't decide who I want! I'm trying... Good thing I have a little more time. =)

I've been trying to pick out just one... Argh!

Molly Harper

I will nominate Kresley Cole .

Jill Shalvis is on my to read list quite a lot

Thanks for nominating!

I would like to nominate Erin McCarthy

Nadine wrote: "I would like to nominate Erin McCarthy"

She was my second choice Nadine :)

Fran wrote: "She was my second choice Nadine :)"

It was really hard to just choose one! There are so many great authors out there with tons of books to choose from.

How about Lisa Renee Jones?

I nominate Erin McCarthy :)

I'll nominate:
Christine Warren

I nominate Megan Hart!

I'll nominate Jennifer L. Armentrout

I think I finally decided - I'm going to nominate Shannon Stacey! =)

Great choices so far!!


There are 6 days left to nominate an author for 2016.

Almost took too long trying to decide...I'll go with Shannon Stacey!

The nominations will close at 8 am EST on October 31st.

2 days left to nominate an author!

I will then create a poll and we can vote on the 2016 Author Group Buddy Read.

Elizabeth wrote: "G.A. Aiken / Shelly Laurenston"

I second this!

The Poll is up! Please stop by and vote for the author you would like to see as our 2016 Group Buddy Read.

Here is the link to the Poll-

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...

The Poll is open now and will remain open until the end of the day on November 14th.

voted :)

Nadine wrote: "voted :)"



Thanks Nadine!

There is one author that is leading the pack, but not by much.....please stop by the Poll and vote for our 2016 Group Author Buddy Read!! Poll closes at the end of the night, November 14th.

Link to Poll-
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...

Voted!! Looking forward to seeing the result :)

There is a tie right now!

Make sure to vote if you haven't already!

Jane (PS) wrote: "Voted!! Looking forward to seeing the result :)"

Thanks Jane!

I"ve voted! It was hard, but now the really hard pard - waiting for the results!

MountainKat wrote: "I"ve voted! It was hard, but now the really hard pard - waiting for the results!"

Thanks Kat!

It's a very close race between 2 authors.

There are 10 more days left to vote in the Poll- make sure to stop by and select the author you would like to buddy read in 2016!

The Results Are In!

Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote in our Group Author Buddy Read Poll!

Here are the results-


Kresley Cole- 81 votes 35.2%
Jill Shalvis- 68 votes 29.6%
Shelly Laurenston- 37 votes 16.1%
Erin McCarthy- 31 votes 13.5%
Shannon Stacey- 13 votes 5.7%
230 total votes

The winner is Kresley Cole!