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Ursula K. Le Guin identifies herself as a socialist.

Cicely Hamilton

And, I found this interesting bit:

Lilith Lorraine, whose real name was Mary M. Wright, was a poet, Texas crime reporter, and early feminist utopian; she ended up with an FBI file because of her socialist views. She chose the pen name Lilith in honor of a fellow “troublemaker,” i.e., the Biblical Adam’s first wife. 

I don't know how many of Lorriane's books are in print and available. 

Engelbrecht - 2014-02-07 10:58 PM I've posted a long list of Short Fiction works in the WWE db over in the thread for that challenge.  I'll work on doing the same for translated works to help those working on that challenge.  Translated works are some of the most interesting, so I'm really excited about this challenge! 

That's a great list you made, thanks!  Like the short fiction list, if you get us a list of all the books that are translated works we'll make an official list out of them.  I've always wondered how many translated works we had in the DB.  I'm only familiar with a handful and I'm sure this will be really helpful for the whole community.  And it always seems easier to build on a known list so we'll make a real effort to expand on it from there.

Hi FemFan, welcome to WWEnd!  Happy to have you aboard.

Setting up a challenge is really easy.  All you have to do is create a theme, which you've already got, explain the goals and rules for the challenge like how many books, how many reviews (if any) and how long you want the challenge to last (3, 6 or 12 months etc.).  You'll want to make a banner for you challenge too to draw the folks in and also give participants something they can post on their blogs etc.  I can help with that if you like or one of our other members can jump in to help too.  The last thing is to create a thread for your challenge where folks can discuss authors and books etc. and where you can answer any questions that come up.

That's the basics of a RYO challenge.  Your particular challenge may need a little further work/guidance on your part to help people get going.  I'm sure we have some (many?) LGBT authors on WWEnd but we don't track that info so there's no way for us to tell who the qualifying authors might me.  You'll want to post a list of recommended authors or point people to some off site resources where they can find that info.  We can add any traditionally published authors your challenge readers request though we've had precious little time to do much of that lately so delays are inevitable.  (We have a solution in the works but 60hr work weeks are making Dave a dull boy.)

I don't think it will be a lot of responsibility beyond that. People will look to you for a few answers and author recs etc. but you'll have other members who will pitch in to help each other out.

I say go for it!  I think if you look around you'll find most of our challenge hosts are having a good time with it.  We're all here to help in whatever way we can.

I've posted a 2015 version of:

All Books Read in 2015 - This has an outrageous number of books as a "goal", but it's not a challenge, it's just a place to track all the books you read this calendar year, so the number is high to leave plenty of room for all of them.

First, the record of your Challenges is still there. So you can rest easy about that.

At the bottom of the RYO Challenge main page is a link "Click to view past challenges". Clicking on that will expand a list of past Challenge banners, but it only goes back 40-some Challenges. The older ones don't show right now. But you can see the ones you've just completed.

The new version of the website will have the ability to view all your past Challenge results. I'm not sure what the timeline is for the golive of the new website; there have been various things (work-wise and personal life-wise) which the Site Admins have had to deal with getting in the way of completing the overhaul. But it's coming.

My advice would be to just rock on with your 2019 Challenges for right now. At some point, you will be able to see your past Challenge results in My World.