RIP Genius Room… What’s Next? You Decide!

[AgentPete]

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It’s official – we’re no longer calling Pop-Up Submission’s Genius Room the Genius Room.

Not that its denizens are any less intelligent. It’s just that, likie most authors, they’re kinda shy and don’t like vaunting their acuity.

So… what shall we now call the-room-formerly-known-as-Genius?

Over to you…!

 

[AgentPete]

The Lizard Lounge…?

 

[Claire G]

Note… this is not an ordinary thread… you can post your thoughts, comments and suggestions in the usual way, but in addition you can also upvote or downvote other folks’ suggestions. So if you like someone else’s suggestion… click on the upvote arrow… and vice versa.

It’s official – we’re no longer calling Pop-Up Submission’s Genius Room the Genius Room.

Not that its denizens are any less intelligent. It’s just that, likie most authors, they’re kinda shy and don’t like vaunting their acuity.

So… what shall we now call the-room-formerly-known-as-Genius?

Over to you…!

The Litopians. It's accurate and pushes the brand/links to the colony.

 

[Eva Ulian]

Note… this is not an ordinary thread… you can post your thoughts, comments and suggestions in the usual way, but in addition you can also upvote or downvote other folks’ suggestions. So if you like someone else’s suggestion… click on the upvote arrow… and vice versa.

It’s official – we’re no longer calling Pop-Up Submission’s Genius Room the Genius Room.

Not that its denizens are any less intelligent. It’s just that, likie most authors, they’re kinda shy and don’t like vaunting their acuity.

So… what shall we now call the-room-formerly-known-as-Genius?

Over to you…!

Something maybe simple but certainly edifying and that will be achieved if the word Litopia is included.
No, l was not thinking of the Litpians Confessional

 

[Adrian Bagley]

Maybe just "the reading room"?

I really liked the Genius Room though!

 

[Eva Ulian]

Maybe just "the reading room"?

I really liked the Genius Room though!

I did too... So original... Alas, I forsee nothing will be anything remotely like it again!

 

[AgentPete]

More suggestions please, and do use the upvote thingy on the right to indicate what ideas tickles your fancy...

 

[James Charles]

More suggestions please, and do use the upvote thingy on the right to indicate what ideas tickles your fancy...

Yeah, I just like Litopians. Calling myself a genius is too haughty. On the show just say, "Let's see what the Litopians are saying." Or, "Now to the comments in the Litopian room..." Or similar...

 

[Rachael Burnett]

1. Critique Corner
2. Literary Lounge
3. The Litopians’ Lounge
4. Litopia Lounge

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

1. Critique Corner
2. Literary Lounge
3. The Litopians’ Lounge
4. Litopia Lounge

Separate them out. I can't vote up or down.

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

I like The Litopian Room.

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

The critique Cafe

 

[Serra K]

I like Litopia Lounge

 

[Lex Black]

Litopia's Exceptional Xenodochy!

You're welcome!

 

[Rachael Burnett]

Critique Corner

 

[Rachael Burnett]

Literary Lounge

 

[Rachael Burnett]

The Litopians’ Lounge

 

[Rachael Burnett]

Litopia Lounge

 

[Rachael Burnett]

Separate them out. I can't vote up or down.

Thank Hannah. I’ve posted each separately

 

[Pamela Jo]

The Litopians is so grey and unexceptional. Meh. I do think if opinions are to be accepted by submitters the room has to have some kind of authority awarded it by Pete. The genius room did it tongue in cheek. If that is too literal then maybe something even more ironic?
Critique evokes critics which carries a far more scathing judgement on work than a tongue in cheek room full of genii's.

I propose 4 alternatives. The first.

1. The Muppet Gallery- the muppets

 

[Pamela Jo]

2.
The Beta Room - the Betas

 

[Pamela Jo]

3. The Wormery- the Bookworms

(Or the Word Room- the Bookworms)

 

[Pamela Jo]

4. 4. The Lizard Lounge- the Lit Lizards ( Literary, Litopia and Lit all implicit there.)

 

[Pamela Jo]

5. The Reader Lounge - the Bookies

I bet there are wordsmiths (Hannah) who can take these suggestions and come up with a combo we can all like.

 

[Barbara]

How about using the Laboratory for Popups as well?

'Let's see what the readers in the Laboratory think....'

 

[Pamela Jo]

Build the mental image of a pub. The kind of pub Pete would have in brick and mortar if he had the chance. Just say the Pub, but give it new names as inspired. "The Book and Worm." "The Big Head." "The Published Publican" And in the pub are the beta readers. The Blushing Betas.

Pub does hint at publish.

 

[Eva Ulian]

The Lizard Lounge…?

I protest forcibly in being called a "Lizard" Joking of course.

 

[Eva Ulian]

How about using the Laboratory for Popups as well?

'Let's see what the readers in the Laboratory think....'

How about:
"Let's see what the Litopians' Lab think..."

 

[Mel L]

The Lit Lounge?

 

[Mel L]

The Crit Tank?