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It’s Pyrite time! Did you think we weren’t doing it this year? Nah, we just wanted to wait until we’d covered as much as possible of the year’s best.

We’ll be doing out best to adhere to the RealPrintz voting procedures, as follows:

• Any officially nominated book is eligible; in our case, that means anything that’s been written up this season, plus the handful of books we’ll be posting in the next week*
• Voting for the winner books takes place first (the honor book vote will follow, and all books other than the winner will be eligible for the honor vote, regardless of whether they received votes in this round)
• Votes are weighted, 5 points for first place, 3 for second, 1 for first — there are those who try to be very strategic with those weighted numbers, but I’m not sure that will work in the Pyrite, where there’s no way to calculate who will vote or know for sure how they feel.
• Voting will stay open until midday Wednesday, with the goal of posting our Pyrite winner by Wednesday evening

Take a minute to flip back through all our “nominations” this year or just jump to the comments and vote away!

*TK this week, in some cases in very brief form: The Smell of Other People’s Houses; Rani Patel in Full Effect; Tell Me Something Real; Girl Mans Up; Merrow; Julia Vanishes; Steeplejack; Spontaneous; Beast; Still Life with Tornado; Scythe; The Reader