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Hi Cathy, and welcome to WWEnd!  I don't think a short story should disqualify an author from your challenge so you're good to go.  A collection of shorts would do it but that author is still essentially new to you so go for it.  Who is the author?

Hello rgatton, welcome to WWEnd!  Not to worry, we'll help you get it worked out.

The first step to joining the challenge is to select some authors from the All Women Authors list.  You don't have to select all 12 right away and you can change them anytime before you tag one of their books for the challenge.  Just check the box under the author's pic.  You don't have to submit.  When you refresh the page all your selected authors will rise to the top of the list so you won't have to hunt them down later.  Once you select an author, her books will be available to apply to your challenge.  To select a book by one you your authors just go to that novel page, tag it as read and check the Apply towards my WoGF.

Give it a go and let me know if you run into any trouble.

If you tag a book as "Reading", and it's written by one of your WoGF authors, it will show on the WoGF page in place of the author's pic.  The book cover will be faded out until you go back and change your tag to "Read" and check the WoGF box.  That's how you track the specific books you're going to read for the challenge.

Make your request over in the request thread and we'll put her on the list. Pretty simple   It's a long list though so don't expect it right away.  We'll get to it eventually.

bstittle - 2013-05-21 9:54 PM Thank you! That WAS easy

You are very welcome!

Nothing official but please do tell us in the reviews!  It's interesting to see how the random selections work out for people.  Pleasantly surprised?  We hope so.   Terribly disappointed?  Better luck next time.    That rule was to get people to read outside of the authors they recognize.  Let's get some more women's names into the conversation plus how cool would it be to roll the dice and maybe come out with a new favorite author?  It has worked for a couple reviewers so far.

Thank YOU for the fine review!  As for reading all 12 for the latecomers: we purposefully chose 12 as a doable number by most people with families and jobs etc. and we felt that with only 12 books the people finding the challenge later in the year could still have a chance to catch up if they read at a slightly faster pace.  2 books a month is a bit steep for some while there are those folks, whom the rest of us envy, that scoff at a 12 book challenge.  You coming to the party late just means you have to party a little harder than the first folks in if you want to reach the official tally of 12/12/12.

Having said that, reading is supposed to be a pleasure (if it's not you're doing it wrong) so if you don't think you can make it all the way no problem.  Jump in and read however many you want.  Use that 12 as a spur to read more if you like the added challenge of the short time frame (think of the bragging rights!) or just ignore the numbers and read some great books and tell us what you thought (no use in stressing over it).  Participation is it's own reward in this challenge.

On the review side, you can still submit 12 reviews and all of your reviews will be eligible for selection for the poll but only 1 review per member per month can be selected.  We put on the limit to try and keep the playing field level for everyone - pokey slow readers like me and Evelyn Wood graduates too.

I'm glad you like the challenge and you did start off very well - keep up the good work!  Nalo Hopkinson is a popular author in this challenge, I look forward to your next review.