Hidden Gems Awards 2018 [CONCLUDED]

✧ how this will work

Even if you participated in these awards last year, read this! I am not going to be doing the same thing I did last year!

Since more books will be accepted in each genre, there will be rounds in which a certain number of books will be eliminated.

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Round One

• judges will read the first chapter of their assigned books. 5 books will be eliminated from each genre.

Round Two

• judges will then read the second chapter of their remaining books. 5 books will be eliminated from each genre.

Round Three

• judges will read the next chapter of their remaining books. 5 books from each genre will be eliminated from each genre.

Round Four

• judges will read the next two chapters of their remaining books. 6 books will be eliminated from each genre.

Round Five (final round)

• judges will read the next two chapters of their remaining books. 6 books will be eliminated from each genre, and three winners in each genre will be named.

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For books in the short story genre, I know some of you may not have 7 chapters. So, for any books in the short story genre that have less than 7 chapters, your judges will just read your whole book and decide the winners that way. If your short story has more than 7 chapters, your judge will go through your book as outlined above.