January-March 2023 Nominations and Voting

You know how it works:
- If you want us to read an author, mention them (even if someone beat you to it - we count how many times an author is mentioned/requested).
- Authors who had been our Author of the month in 2021 and 2022 are not eligible. Everyone else is. Even authors with a single book to their name. Preferably authors who have at least something published in English (as most people in the group do not have a different common language).
- The 3 authors with the most votes become our authors of the month for the 3 months we are voting for; in case of ties which produce more than 3 authors, they fill in the months after March.

Deadline: 30 November 2022 although if you are in the States, it may not be a good idea to leave this for the days after Thanksgiving - chances are that this is the last thing on your mind when that time comes. Results will be announced on December 1 (just on time for the elves/Santa/the reindeer or whoever is buying books for you during the holidays to bring you books by the authors we select).

I nominate Edna Ferber

Sara Baume

Mercè Rodoreda

I nominate Anthony Trollope and Sylvia Townsend Warner

>4 MissWatson: I'll second both Trollope and Warner.

for those of you who love Warner,as I do, have you read Kingdoms of Elfin? very intrigued by this, but I see its gotten mixed reviews. what are your thoughts please (and yes Id also be interested in reading her)

Frederick Backman

Chaim Potok

Alan Brennert

>7 cindydavid4: I recently read Lolly Willowes, my first Warner, and I'm looking forward to more. Haven't heard of this one.

January and February are clear (Trollope and Warner) but then we have 7 authors with one vote. We can fill in all the way until September or I can break the tie and fill March and then we vote again in February.

I kinda lean towards carrying the 6 nominations into the next period automatically (and voting to break the tie) but that is against the rules as stated above as listed so anyone with an opinion? If I do the carrying over, that may become the new rule (thus making it less likely to lose authors if someone misses a window).

Thoughts?

Can I withdraw Mercè Rodoreda?

>11 dianeham: Of course.

>10 AnnieMod: rules are made to be broken? or at least modified? We could do a run off this month or just move the nominatons into the next period, makes sense.

>13 cindydavid4: I planned to actually second an author before the deadline but between the virus that got me and work, I just forgot. :( thus the situation we are in :)

>10 AnnieMod: I think we could move the nominations into the next period.

>14 AnnieMod: hope you are feeling better!

Threads are up:

January 2023: Anthony Trollope: https://www.librarything.com/topic/346555
February 2023: Sylvia Townsend Warner: https://www.librarything.com/topic/346556
March 2023: Alan Brennert: https://www.librarything.com/topic/346558

Edna Ferber, Sara Baume, Elizabeth von Arnim, Frederick Backman and Chaim Potok become house nominees for the next round (which gives them 1/2 points - basically they win if they end up in a tie but they still need support to get into a tie; the original nominator is allowed to nominate/support them again if they want to).

As usual - if someone disagrees, please post here and we will work out what we want to do together.

Next nomination/voting will be in February (for April-June).

Happy holidays everyone!