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  1. John Berkowitz

    Announcement Big update for CritMatch! Now with CHOICES!!

    Re: my above comment. I don't know how the underlying coding of the matching system works, but it seems to me based on experience that matches are based on only one of your chosen genres. Not a weighted list of multiple genres. Because out of 6-8 matches, I have only gotten close once...
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    Announcement Big update for CritMatch! Now with CHOICES!!

    May I offer a suggestion to clean up and simplify the choices without eliminating any? Since we can now select multiple genres for our profile, listings like Historical Mystery are redundant. You already have Historical and you already have Mystery. People can choose both of those and get a...
  3. John Berkowitz

    Announcement Big update for CritMatch! Now with CHOICES!!

    Thanks for continually working on this and being so open to suggestions. Can you list the genres you intend to use? I see that my access is disabled and the panel looks different, but the genres all seem the same, i.e. several flavors of Romance, and only one of everything else, and also no...
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    Crit Matches Vote for / Suggest new genres/subgenres to add to the CritMatch options

    So, this time I finally got a match who responded (first time). However we are not a match. I originally selected "MG," then changed it to "Fantasy" several weeks ago when I saw only 4 people were registered for MG. The person I was matched with had selected "Children's Books." This...
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    Crit Matches Vote for / Suggest new genres/subgenres to add to the CritMatch options

    That's awesome! Actually, I didn't receive an e-mail, but I'll go opt in right now!
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    Crit Matches Vote for / Suggest new genres/subgenres to add to the CritMatch options

    There are a lot of pros and cons to the various suggestions, above. I wonder if it might be easiest to just wipe out everyone and send a new e-mail telling everyone who wants to participate to sign up again with the fresh categories (which we would have to do anyway, right?), then continue...
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    Crit Matches Vote for / Suggest new genres/subgenres to add to the CritMatch options

    Same. Two matches, and no response from either one.
  8. John Berkowitz

    HELP! Crititque Partner Matching Program

    Happy to give unsolicited advice! Actually, I think we need fewer categories, not more. If you look at the current list from inside the crit match settings, you'll see that most of those Romance categories have 0 people signed up for them. Just make it Romance. Maybe, if you can only choose...
  9. John Berkowitz

    The main genres are: Erotica Romance Western Mystery Fantasy Sci-Fi Contemporary Historical...

    The main genres are: Erotica Romance Western Mystery Fantasy Sci-Fi Contemporary Historical Thriller Horror Men's Adventure Women's Fiction And the age groups are: Picture Books Chapter Books Middle Grade Young Adult New Adult Adult That should be it. List those two groups and give us the...
  10. John Berkowitz

    Otherwise, you're going to need to add: Arthurian Fantasy Assassin Fantasy Christian Fantasy...

    Otherwise, you're going to need to add: Arthurian Fantasy Assassin Fantasy Christian Fantasy Dragon Fantasy Dying Earth Fantasy Erotic Fantasy Fairytale Retelling Gaslamp Fantasy Heroic Fantasy Magical Realism Quest Fantasy Swashbuckling Fantasy Sword and Sorcery Urban Fantasy Alien Invasion...
  11. John Berkowitz

    "All the flavors of Romance" is pretty unfair to everyone else not writing Romance. Because...

    "All the flavors of Romance" is pretty unfair to everyone else not writing Romance. Because then we'd have to put all the flavors of Fantasy, all the flavors of Sci-fi, all the flavors of Mystery, and on and on. There are dozens and dozens. But that's not how agents look at books -- and...
  12. John Berkowitz

    Ditto. I have been matched twice with zero response from either person I was matched with...

    Ditto. I have been matched twice with zero response from either person I was matched with. Also, the categories confuse "genre" with "age group." MG is not a genre. And do we really need so many flavors of Romance? Most of them have zero members choosing them. One kind of Romance writer...
  13. John Berkowitz

    genre do I get crit in?

    I also write MG Fantasy. However the above book sounds like non-fiction, which doesn't really have a genre. MG vs. Adult is the age group, not the genre.
  14. John Berkowitz

    HELP! Crititque Partner Matching Program

    Thanks for the swift reply and the clarification. I've been doing this for quite awhile, and at the risk of making more work for you, any such matching system really needs TWO criteria: Genre and Age Group. Romance, Mystery, etc. are genres. Young Adult and Middle Grade are age groups. You...
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    HELP! Crititque Partner Matching Program

    I've joined twice, but it never told me I had to be a premium member to participate. I am concerned that all of the genres are basically just different kinds of Romance. What about Fantasy? Sci-Fi? Mystery? What about different age groups; middle grade, young adult, adult, etc? I have a...
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