I wish I was coming with happier news, though I will be slowing down a bit for the next couple weeks.

I will still be judging starting November 5th as planned, though I would really appreciate your patience and understanding.

Please read my most recent announcement to see why.

I would appreciate it if you gave me more time to answer comments/forms, and I may not reply to everything right now. Important questions I will do my best to respond to, though general comments may be missed for the time being. Again, please read my most recent announcement to understand why since I honestly do not feel like going into detail about it here.

Anyone new who is signing up, I would really appreciate it if you make sure all your forms are correct to make it easier on me. Remember:

- Only one submission per book, meaning you cannot submit the same book more than once, but you can submit different books up to four times

- Explicit music does not mean "Is your story mature?", it means are you personally okay with there being explicit music on the playlists I make about your stories (over half of the participants got this wrong; I don't care if your story is mature or not since I'm 21 with no triggers, not to mention if your book is mature, there's a mature tag on your book that tells me that)

- Don't add anything that isn't on the form and use the exact form; there is a template in the inline comments where it says "Blank Form" in the Forms chapter

- Check the categories before you apply since a bunch of categories are closed, and you can see if they are closed or not in the forms chapter; please do not apply to closed categories

Mistakes happen and that is absolutely, 100% okay, though the less back-and-forth I have to do in the forms chapter, the easier it is on me, especially since my brain is not at its peak functional power at this time.

Also, no, this is not a music contest. There seems to have been some confusion, but this is for books/short stories/poetry and all that good stuff. As stated in the bio, this is music-themed, not a music contest. This is stated in both the bio and introduction. The judging chapter also shows that books/short stories/poems are accepted, so please read carefully since I put a lot of effort into the theming and rules.

Lastly, if you know anyone who may be interested in signing up for fan vote, I would appreciate it if you convinced them to join since that category is easy as heck to judge and would make it a lot easier on me. There are only two slots left, so just two more people and then I'll start judging it.

Thank you for reading, and more information is available on my message board.