tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post7273412383504085048..comments2024-03-04T13:30:37.333-08:00Comments on Mark Lawrence: SPFBO 2017 -- the finals!Mark Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877925828353073272noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-37064764511974374242019-12-20T04:04:20.110-08:002019-12-20T04:04:20.110-08:00Where Loyalties Lie is a great book and deserve ti...Where Loyalties Lie is a great book and deserve ti be on the first place!elements of a narrative essayhttps://narrativeessays.org/narrative-essay-writing-tips-7-elements/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-21421862779745742192019-07-14T06:09:06.701-07:002019-07-14T06:09:06.701-07:00wow..that will be great...
wow..that will be great...<br />clippingpath artisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16591680314941090240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-46209612511205062262018-08-26T21:33:22.984-07:002018-08-26T21:33:22.984-07:00This blog is so interesting and impressive
This blog is so interesting and impressive<br />Oscar Fernandezhttps://www.clippingsolutions.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-33872805829183723372018-06-01T02:26:29.585-07:002018-06-01T02:26:29.585-07:00As in previous years, I did not want to wait til a...As in previous years, I did not want to wait til all the scores came in, so I used a weighted average rating based on how many scores were given by each reviewer, so that the scores of reviewers who had not reported scores on all were underweighted. In 2015, the intermediate weighted average score correctly predicted the final score (when all reviewer scores were complete); in 2016, there was not much difference except at the end of the list. This year, the top scorer is clear, but the order from 2-7 is different. <br /><br />____________________Ave__Pos_Weighted_Pos<br />Where Loyalties Lie_______8.00__1___7.98____1<br />The Crimson Queen_______7.50__3___7.52____2<br />Sufficiently Advanced Magic_7.67__2___7.11____3<br />The Way Into Chaos_______6.33__6___6.31____4<br />Devil's Night Dawning______6.56__4___6.16____5<br />The War of Undoing_______6.30__7___5.91____6<br />Jack Bloodfist___________6.56__4___5.85____7<br />Chaos Trims My Beard_____6.00__8___5.45____8<br />Tiger Lily______________5.33__9___4.80____9<br />Pilgrimage to Skara_______4.35__10___3.97___10<br /><br />(again appologies for ___. I can't work out how to do tables on this blog. Markdown tables doesn't seem to work)<br />richardhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13185041659054023609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-56457932048139096362018-03-20T11:48:56.725-07:002018-03-20T11:48:56.725-07:00When do you think we'll get the final tally Ma...When do you think we'll get the final tally Mark?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-83592791646913406262018-02-22T09:06:16.360-08:002018-02-22T09:06:16.360-08:00Hey Mark! Thanks for listing my ratings! Funny thi...Hey Mark! Thanks for listing my ratings! Funny thing is, those are my old scores. I got to 90 book in, and realized my spread of scores was only 5.9 - 8.9, and that didn't feel right. My rating system was new, so I went back and tweaked my scores for a new spread of 4.6 - 9.1<br /><br /><br />https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DZixTZzLymFhoso8fgdswQBb_F-YqiIKGpC3ukPakk8/edit?usp=sharing<br /><br />Finalist ratings are now: <br /><br />Where Loyalties Lie - 8.91<br />Sufficiently Advanced Magic - 8.83<br />Devil's Night Dawning - 8.58<br />Chaos Trims My Beard - 8.5 <br />The Crimson Queen - 8.5<br />Jack Bloodfist 7.8<br />The War of the Undoing - 7.66<br />Tiger Lily - 7.5<br />Pilgrimage to Skara - 6.91 <br />The Way into Chaos - 6.8<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15234581508075394752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-87765375028118383002018-02-01T06:41:23.113-08:002018-02-01T06:41:23.113-08:00High praise to Kitty G's wonderful reviews, th...High praise to Kitty G's wonderful reviews, the only voice of reason of the lot. Want quality, watch Kitty articulate quality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-86065139969117730202017-12-31T06:19:39.686-08:002017-12-31T06:19:39.686-08:00The dog whistling in that anonymous post is as cle...The dog whistling in that anonymous post is as clear as day. 100% a troll trying to be edgy.Allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05976148736801707999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-52620447543973114922017-12-30T07:33:01.189-08:002017-12-30T07:33:01.189-08:00Well done to all the finalists and three New Year&...Well done to all the finalists and three New Year's cheers for Mark and the bloggers. Let us not forget that they put as much effort into SPFBO as the authors, and for no reward other than to make the world a better place.A.M. Steinerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13037536974415187811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-39129878145738544192017-12-29T08:38:37.553-08:002017-12-29T08:38:37.553-08:00This is the 21st Century. We should be looking at...This is the 21st Century. We should be looking at quality not gender. IMHOVerahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16711455257805011604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-26803888067463326802017-12-29T07:55:02.232-08:002017-12-29T07:55:02.232-08:00I hate to break this to you, but K. Bird Lincoln i...I hate to break this to you, but K. Bird Lincoln is a woman. But by all means print that no women were chosen. BriandAndersonbookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13675983300588322712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-15141028507019713242017-12-28T14:19:34.839-08:002017-12-28T14:19:34.839-08:00Oh wow a blinkered knee jerk response questioning ...Oh wow a blinkered knee jerk response questioning the honesty and integrity of the SPFBO reviewers lacking in anything but entitled opinion. <br /><br />Other anonymous, women took the Nebula's in 2016. Perhaps you would care to post your comment regarding the lack of male finalists to their site?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-38470318791451858102017-12-27T04:01:41.413-08:002017-12-27T04:01:41.413-08:00Five of the ten blogs selecting finalists are enti...Five of the ten blogs selecting finalists are entirely run by women. Three have mixed panels, and only two are run entirely by men. They chose the books they they thought were best.<br /><br />Last year half the finalists were women.<br /><br />I'm sure all the contestants would welcome the added publicity of a Guardian article.<br />Mark Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877925828353073272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-59962291954296912702017-12-26T12:19:35.520-08:002017-12-26T12:19:35.520-08:00Zero women selected to date despite so many qualit...Zero women selected to date despite so many quality submissions. What a disappointing initiative. In this day and age fantasy MUST be a shinning light for inclusive and diverse writers. This will make a great article for the Guardian. Greetings from Tokyo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com