Why the LIW awards 2018 didn’t happen? Last year, I started preparing everything for the LIW 2018, very motivated to get this done early in the year.

I questioned a few of LIW creators about the awards, as I had noticed criticism in the past and I wanted to make sure they were happy with the way it was done. Suggestions I got was:

1) Instead of asking the voters to name an actor/director… for a category, they wanted each LIWcreators to name the person they wanted to present for each award. I needed to contact every single LIWcreator, and ask to name a person for each category (actor.ress, transmedia, etc

2) LIW creators questioned about the awards wanted to have different type of awards, one for LIWs with small budgets and one for webseries with bigger budgets. 5,000€ was the limit that was decided. Their argument was that smaller webseries could never get an award, because...

.because it was a low budget webseries with a small audience. Although Low-budget webseries got awards in the past, and big giant high budget webseries didn’t get awards in the past. There are plenty of examples. But they wanted to have two categories to have more chances to win.

So I went to contact every LIW creator of a LIW which aired in 2017. It took me 2 to 3 months to get answers from all of them. For 1) I ended up with a giant list of names for each category, which would have been impossible for any voter to go through, while voting.

My conclusion was that making the voter name whoever they wanted, as I did in 2015, 2016 and 2017, is actually a better and manageable way to do the LIW awards.

For 2), I ended up having only 1 web series which aired in 2017 with a budget > 5,000 €. So it didn’t make any sense to have two type of awards. I had tried to please everybody, did a lot of work to end up in the same place than 3 months earlier.

By the time I realized that I should have done it my own way, the way I had done for 3 years, it was June. I was then facing some mental health issues and juggling with 2 jobs, having no time for anything else that work and sleep (and cry).

Which is still the case to be honest. I am at a stage where I don’t even know what is going on in the LIW universe, as you don’t see me on social media anymore, which sadden me very much as I built strong links with many of you. But that is how it is.

Therefore, there has been no LIW awards in 2018, and most likely no LIW awards in 2019.

Literary-Inspired Webseries Awards 3rd Edition - Ceremony youtu.be/9JnlE-7GIFU via YouTube

If you have won or been nominated for a LIWaward in 2015, 2016, 2017 and you have not received your award or certification, let me know!

Check out my run down of 5 of the best literary-inspired web series for newcomers 📚 buff.ly/2v3BMcr #LiW

Literary #webseries 2017 to binge-watched this weekend: - Romeo and Juliet Any Other Rosie 🌷 - North and South Maggie Hale's Corner - _Guess the Book_ Screen14 Pictures - Hamlet Battle For Denmark - Far From The Madding Crowd Away From it All - Robin Hood Oh For Cute! Prod.

Lit #webseries 2017 to watch this weekend: - Middlemarch Middlemarch Series - Comedy of Errors Travelling Lemon Productions 🍋 - Peter Pan EpicRobotTV - Faire Em #FairlyEmily - Anne of Green Gables Project Green Gables - Harry Potter Apple Juice Productions - Blythe Spirit School Spirit

Lit #webseries 2017 to binge-watch during cold winter days: - Emma Emma Woodhouse - Greek Mythology The Pantheon - Little Women The Attic Series - As You Like It Foot in the Door - Several short stories #Fantasmagory - Shakespeare ASK WILL

Lit #webseries 2017 to binge-watch this winter: - Northanger Abbey @cate_morland - The Better Strangers, sequel of Document of Madness TheBorrowersThatLend - H.G Wells short story Betwixt Productions - Romeo and Juliet @TheOuttakesPro - Cyrano BookNerd Productions - Shakespeare Shakespeare Republic

A week since our last ep aired. Who else already misses these cuties? youtu.be/WmLAYkiVnKU

Hi guys, sorry I haven’t been very active lately and I know that the Lit Webseries Awards haven’t happened yet, and it’s April (although it feels more like February...). Life has been busy since the beginning of the year and complicated. My mental needs a rest for a while. But I’ll be back