2023 Critter's Poll Results: Kevin's Corner wins "Best Review Site"

 

After finishing in first place for the last three years, I made the decision last year not to enter Kevin’s Corner. As some knew at the time, I was planning to shut down the blog within the next few weeks and pretty much quietly go away. The reaction to my not entering the blog was massive in public and private. People were very upset with me. I heard from many folks who were most displeased with the fact that I was not entering the blog in the annual poll.

 

I was very surprised. I have a hard time conceiving of the idea that anything I do, especially with the blog, really impacts other folks. Apparently, there is a huge impact even if I don’t really see it happening.

 

So, after keeping the blog going through the year, primarily with a lot of help from my friends and guests, I decided to enter again this year, and roll the dice.

 

Sandi made me promise shortly before she passed that I would write my own stuff and keep the blog going. She had far more faith in me than I ever did in myself. Friday was her birthday and it was a very hard day. I spent most of the day offline as I tried to lose myself in a book. It seemed like some sort of sign Friday evening when I surfaced and checked my email and got the news that the blog had won.

 

Kevin’s Corner finished FIRST.

 

This year, we were the only place reviewing mysteries and crime fiction. We were also the only site that was not one of the big guns with book giveaways, special events, and the like. I am honored and stunned how things have turned out.

 

On behalf of myself, Scott, Barry, Aubrey, Jeanne of the BPL, and numerous other folks who have been a part of things here for another year, Thank You. If it was not for all the guests who contribute to this blog every month, this award and the recognition, does not happen.

 

A massive and heartfelt thank you goes to you, the readers, who come by here and read this blog. If it was not for your support over these past months and years, especially after Sandi passed and my word crashed in flames, this blog never would have continued or been around for this to happen today. You have showed your support in public and in private, and by voting this blog number one again.

 

Thank You. It truly means a lot. 

 

Kevin