News items categorized under “Award information” are the ones that in one way or another discuss additions or changes to the literary awards that I track.
To see all the latest literary awards news, see the front page of The Burnt Ones: Literary Awards News.
The Burnt Ones: Service Indefinitely Suspended
Date: September 16, 2007 | Discussion: 5 Comments
Due to the lack of time that I have to properly run this website, I have decided to stop actively working on it. The Burnt Ones, therefore, effectively closes its doors.
I am currently at a point in life where I don’t have the amount of time and energy for my hobby projects as I used to. Consequently, I am forced to more carefully choose what I want to do, and while The Burnt Ones has always been both a lot of fun and very interesting to work on, I am sorry to announce that it is now one of the things that I have decided to drop from my daily schedule. Simply put, the service eats up more of my time than I am really able to give it at the moment.
While I could probably run the website half-heartedly (as I have admittedly been forced to do in the past few months), I don’t frankly see any point in doing so. A poorly run news service, even when done with the best intentions, is still a poorly run web service, and it wouldn’t in the end serve anyone’s interests.
The website and the archives will remain as they are now. As for the future, I may at some point re-launch The Burnt Ones if I find myself once again with more time at my disposal. But that at the moment looks like a big ‘maybe’.
Thanks for the ride, everyone. I hope it was at least somewhat useful to some of you!
