The final results are in for our publishing co-op vote. In order of popularity:
27 (the world: the end multi-chapter epic), 20 points
28 (we don’t have the right idea yet), 18 points
18 (the rethought Iliad), 12 points
1 (a collection of my stories), 12 points
20, 9 points
15, 9 points
14, 7 points
17, 6 points
13, 6 points
9, 6 points
23, 5 points
26, 4 points
11, 3 points
10, 3 points
6, 3 points
2, 3 points
25, 2 points
21, 2 points
10, 2 points
22, 1 point
I had originally thought we’d simply go with a winner-takes-all result, but the fact that #28, ‘we’re not there yet’, is such a close second indicates to me that we have a problem.
So what do you want to do? Choose #27 anyway, and refine the idea in discussion? Hold a run-off vote? Talk more?
Oh, and I’ll be closing these comments tomorrow at midnight. I want to move all co-op stuff to the Google Group we’ve set up, Ozymandias. A blog isn’t really the best place for it. So please go join if you want to part of this moving forward.
*** These comments are now closed. Discussion continues over on Ozymandias, the Google group. If you’d like to be part of the co-op, please join. ***
Nicola Griffith 
#28, we don’t have the right idea yet. For one thing, the world is probably not going to end right away. We should start as we mean to go on.
barbara, have you joined the Google group?
What happened to your rant? It actually answered a question I had always meant to ask.
rory, it pubbed too early so I took it down. Blogger does weird stuff sometimes–though this time I think it was operator error :)It’ll be back on Wednesday. I hope you’ll comment then. Meanwhile, I’ve scheduled another rant for tomorrow. I’m in rant mode this week.
Nicola, I have indeed joined the Google group, although I haven’t entirely figured out how everything works there.
Just wanted to say that I’ve put my response to this in the google group. I’m glad to see everyone who’s joined so far, but I’m hoping to see more people join the group. It seems to me that anyone who can’t make the effort to join the google group is not very interested in working with the co-op. Am I wrong?
barbara, it’s just a fancy email list. Hang in there, it will all become clear.jennifer, not entirely wrong, no, though this is a v. busy time of year for many and I assume they assume the Google group will be there when they get around to joining. Which of course is true. It’s just that it might not be the co-op they want, because it will have moved on without their input…
Have a vote off between #27 and #28. It will be more final. I’ve got a suspicion #28 might just win.