So, a year late, but finally the results for the Spookys are in. I'm delightfully impressed. Not.

Glad to hear that Alice is finally relinquishing control, though it's definitely waaay too late that she came to her senses. Still a little worried that she'll continue to host the awards. A webmaster always has access to the control panel and can do nasty things (like, oh, dunno...banning authors, perchance?!), even if others have access as well. Let's see where this goes.

Also, apparently all bans are now off, and writers won't be banned again if at all possible. That's great news, kudos to the committee. (and isn't it a shame that this sort of thing has to be made a rule to begin with?)

Then again...just wondering here...

I thought the committee had something to do with banning authors (at least that's what Alice made it sound like, and even though I do know that it was, in fact, just a personal vendetta from her, it would've been nice if the committee had stepped in to stop her...), and there've only been two authors who got banned by her, the other authors pulled their stories voluntarily to show their support at the time.

Not sure about the other banned author, but I for one am not particularly eager to return to the Spookys, the whole fiasco just left a bad taste in my mouth.

On the other hand, I'm thrilled to see that the other banned author managed to win first and second place in the same gender threesome category! Wow! Downright spooky, I must say. Guess it's just proof that Alice can't even ban an author right!

*shakes head in confused amusement*

And yes, some of the other winners made me go hmmm as well...!

But anyway. I've now said my piece, and I feel better. Me? Bitter? Not anymore. Bittersweet maybe, but that's it. LOL!

Good luck for the future, Spookys, for what it's worth.