Nominees

First of all: All the blogger love made me tear up. Seriously. There were tears. Over 140 entries, each with about 4 nominations. Guys. That's 560 nominations. I LOVE YOU ALL.

So here's what happened: the nominations were absolutely scattered. The average votes each blog had was 3, including those that had the MOST nominations. Some categories had 60+ blogs nominated while others only had maybe 5 bloggers.

SO...

If a category had around five bloggers, each with one vote, then they would go up for voting, despite only being nominated once each.

If a category had 2-5 blogs with more than just one nomination, then those would go against each other, even if there were only two blogs.

Some had, for example, one blogger with 7 nominations and 4-5 others with only 2. Then all those bloggers would go up against each other in that category.

If that makes sense. Sorry I can't explain it any better! Feel free to leave a question in the comments though, and I'll try to answer!

Nominees: You will be emailed shortly (within the next day or two) asking for a "testimony", links, and other.
(Side note: I may be writing a "testimony" or two, but I will NOT be voting. Or else what kind of host am I?)

ALSO: Because there were two categories where the blogger/publisher had a landslide of nominations (i.e. 11 vs 2 or 15 vs 1) this is the new schedule:

July 25-Best Breakout Blog and Trending Blog
July 26-Best Group Blog
July 27-Best Design and Most Creative
July 28-Nicest Blogger and Well Known Blog
July 29-Twitter Fiend and Best Meme
July 30-Most Influential and Best Reviews
July 31-Most Hilarious Review and Blogging Fairy
Aug 1-Most Social Author and Books, Blogs, and Media, Oh My!
Aug 10-Winners

CONGRATS TO EVERYONE, BY THE WAY!
Don't be down if you didn't make it on to the nominees list (Except you cheaters. I hope you feel ashamed.), it was actually pretty competitive and I think there were up to 72 blogs nominated for one of the categories! And there's always next year!

Nominees
Nicest Bloggers
Kindles and Wine
Bookhi
A Sunny Spot Blog
Singing and Reading in the Rain
Book Loving Mom

Twitter Fiend
Fiction Freak
Amy Bookworm
Singing and Reading in the Rain
Cabin Goddess
The Book Stop

Best Design
Feed Me Books Now
Icey Books
Xpresso Reads
Book Loving Mom

Best Breakout Blog
The Book Stop
A Bookish Heart
Between the Lines
Reading in Twilight

Most Influential
Nose Graze
Reading in Twilight
Jenna Does Books
Fictionators

Group Blog
Cuddlebuggery
Under The Covers
Vampires, Werewolves, Fairies, Oh My
YA Sisterhood
Great Imaginations
Kindles and Wine

Most Creative
YA Sisterhood
Ensconced in YA
Cabin Goddess
Feed Me Books Now
Perpetual Page Turner

Trending Blog
Queen of Contemporary
Nose Graze
Jenna Does Books
Mile Long Bookshelf
Cuddlebuggery

Best Reviews
Rabid Reads
Sparkles and Lightning
Kindles and Wine
Icey Books

Well Known
Alluring Reads
I am a Reader, Not a Writer

Books, Blogs, and Media, Oh My! (Author)
Fiona Paul
A.G. Howard

Most Social Author
AG Howard
Erin Albert
Jodi Meadows
Milly Taiden
Fiona Paul
Rachel Harris

Meme
Swoon Thursday
Top Ten Tuesday
Cover Snark
What's Next

Hilarious Reviews
Cuddlebuggery for September Girls by Bennett Madison and Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
Chrstine (BookTuber) for City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
Good Books and Good Winefor The Innocents by Lili Peloquin
Writer of Wrongs for Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
Fiction Freak for her Mini Freak Outs (type of review)

Blogging Fairy
Feed Me Books Now
Nose Graze
Xpresso Reads
Rabid Reads
Vampires, Werewolves, and Fairies, Oh My

Bloggy Awards 2013

HELLO HELLO! It's time for the Bloggy Awards to start again! Eileen's away so I (Nikki @ Fiction Freak) am going to be your host for the majority of the tour! So if things suck more than last year, I am unbelievably sorry.

Make sure you follow @TheBloggyAwards for updates, winners, and more!

Also, like the new design? I do! (And no, I'm not biased because I made the banner...okay, maybe a little)

So last year some things happened that we didn't expect, so here's how it's going to go:

Rules

• When talking about the Awards, please use the hastag #BloggyAwards13
• No nominating for yourself, though feel free to go twitter rampaging!
• We're going off the honor system here, so please don't lie! 
• No giveaways please! We will be checking and any giveaways related to the Awards will result in immediate disqualification
• IF YOU WON AN AWARD LAST YEAR, YOU CAN NOT BE IN THE VOTING FOR THE SAME CATEGORY. Any other category you didn't win in last year is fine! Next year, feel free to enter again! This is to give more people a better chance!
• Only the top 5 nominated bloggers will make it into voting, though we will make exceptions for ties or extremely close wins
• Each blogger may only be an official nominee for 3 categories. 
• If you make it into the voting for 3+ categories, we will email/tweet you to see which categories you'd like to stay in. 
• If you do not respond, we will be forced to choose the 3 categories that are up for voting the soonest.
• EACH BLOGGER MUST REPLY TO THE OFFICIAL NOMINEE EMAIL AND TURN IN THE NEEDED MATERIALS (like last year, we will be asking for a "testimony"[1-3] from a fellow blogger or an author friend). Please turn these in a day before voting goes up. We'll tweet you to let you know!
• Each blogger may only win one category. 
• We will also be emailing/tweeting about this. If you don't respond, again, we'll choose the first category that ended.

The Categories

(In no particular order and with explanations)

Nicest Blogger: The nicest blogger you know?

Twitter Fiend: Biggest online presence!
Best Design: The prettiest design

Blogging Fairy: The one who knows everything about anything bloggy.
Best Breakout Blog: New blog (under six months) with the biggest reaction
Best Tour Group Blog: The nicest tour group blog that hosts the best tours!
Most Influential: The blogger who's word is (almost) law
Best Group Blog: Your favorite 2+ people blog?
Most Creative Blog: Which blog has the most creative events/design
Trending Blog: What blog do you think is making it's name known?
Best Reviews: Who's reviews do you always read and use/consider?
Well-Known Blog: The biggest blog? 
Blogs, and Books, and Media, oh my: The author who blogs the most and has a big online presence! 

Most Social Author: What author do you think interacts with her fans the most?
Best Meme: The Meme you love the most?
Most Hilarious Review: Which review made you LOL?

Nicest Negative Review: The review that wasn't quite positive, but still managed to be nice about it?

Publishing Fun: Which Publisher hosted an event or website you like the most? (LEAVE NOMINATIONS FOR THIS IN THE COMMENTS) EX: Tea Time, Signings, Pulse It, Pitch Dark, Breathless Reads, Fierce Reads, etc.

The Schedule

Here's the schedule for voting. VOTING WILL LAST UNTIL FRIDAY. 

July 14/15-Announce the nominees 

July 21-Best Breakout Blog and Trending Blog

July 22-Best Group Blog and Best Tour Blog

July 23-Best Design and Most Creative

July 24-Nicest Blogger and Well Known Blog

July 25-Twitter Fiend and Best Meme

July 26-Most Influential and Best Reviews

July 27-Blogging Fairy and Favorite Publisher

July 28-Most Hilarious Review and Nicest Negative Review

July 29-Most Social Author and Blogs, Books, and Media oh my

Aug 5-Winners

IF YOU HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS PLEASE EMAIL Bloggyawards@gmail.com or check our FAQ