Alix Davenport

@Bstarroyer Thank you. I hadn't even noticed I had placed in anything

@alpaljames Thank you, I appreciate that. I tried my best with the award guidelines. I will get back to reading soon, but I have been waiting for the results to come out before I continue any books to avoid overstepping limits

@AsherTheKookabura You were a judge too. Do me a favor. Pretend you're judging paranormal/supernatural. Go look at the two covers and tell me how you would score them and address their genre relevance without mentioning BTS. Then look at the blurbs and tell me if you would be enticed as a supernatural/paranormal reader/judge to pick up the books on the blurbs alone. Those were the factors I had to judge and score. 
            
            I don't care what people like to write and who they write it for, and I don't care who likes those writings. I don't have anything against BTS fans at all - to each their own.
            
            I write dark romance for dark romance lovers, I don't pretend to pitch my stories in categories they have no chance in.
            
            My point is, the stories in question were written by people who love BTS, who spun creative tales with their idols in mind, for the people who love to read stories about their idols, BUT those stories were not written for the general supernatural/paranormal audience. And placing them in a category with stories written specifically for the category, with a judge judging on category adherence and appeal to a reader, well, it felt like a mistake.
            
            I stand by what I've said, and why I've said it - yes, the wording could have been different, but the statements would have been the same. People can hate on me all they want, but they need to remember that all participants in the award, myself included in two categories, put our writing on the line to be judged by a person who might not like our stories for whatever reason.

@AsherTheKookabura I can accept your apology. It hurt a lot because many went way overboard with the name-calling and comments. And being called a racist because I don't know unexplained cultural terminologies felt unfair.
            
            It's completely fine and human to disagree with someone else's opinion on something you love, but facts are, that if you enter an award, you do so with the conscious knowledge that you'll get a random judge, and you WILL be judged. It doesn't matter if there are 4 or 50 participants, they will be ranked according to the judge's evaluation. If being judged like this is too much, then join a book club, get  R4R partner, have a friend read, or promote your story to your target audience. 
            
            A lot of the commenters waltzed happily over the fact that these contestants had willingly applied to be judged, and I had volunteered to judge paranormal/supernatural, not fanfiction. And if fanfiction stories are accepted outside of the fanfiction category, it's on the author to make sure the stories can be read without fandom knowledge. I'm there to judge what's on the page, not to do research to understand.

@TheAlixDavenport heyy I wish to join your book club .
            
            Name- @vamplover20202
            Book- something in him.
            Genre- romance , mature
            Contains characters with familial trauma

@mingineee Thank you. I' resting all day, every day right now

@Coiner789 Thank you. It's a rough one, but I'm getting better