  Dude,  you're confused?  urlLink Mark Sarvas over at urlLink The Elegant Variation blog wonders what exactly is being judged in the 3AM Good Sex Prize -  urlLink the judges or actual fiction ?  For his benefit,  I'll reiterate the shortlist,
 as I confess,  it was a wee while between announcing the shortlist and the judges and anyone not paying attention could get confused:  Frederic Beigbeder,  6. 99 ,  Picador,
 July 2003 Stewart Home,  Down and Out in Shoreditch and Hoxton ,  The Do- Not- Press,  February 2004 Michel Houellebecq,
 Lanzarote ,  Heinemann,  July 2003 Mounsi,  The Demented Dance ,  Black Amber,  July 2003 Ben Myers,
 The Book of Fuck ,  Wrecking Ball Press,  February 2004 Adam Thirlwell,  Politics ,  Jonathan Cape,  August 2003 Helen Walsh,
 Brass,  Canongate ,  March 2004 Tony White,  Foxy- T ,  Faber and Faber,
 July 2003 OK,  it's a bit of an EU- centric affair as there's no US novels to speak of in the list,  primarily because no one nominated any.  There's always the 2005 prize for that I guess,  if any US authors write any that is (
tip:  write one now and it might win)  However,  my post of the other day on the list of judges,  although now amended,  was not strictly true as I omitted both urlLink Toby Litt and urlLink Andrei Codrescu ,
 primarily because I didn't know urlLink Andrew Gallix had approached them to be judges and the first I knew of it was when they voted ( having done so before most of the announced judges)  As such,  two authors are now level- pegging in the lead,  though obviously I can't say who they are.
 So,  to recap on that front,  here are the judges in full:  -  Steve Almond -  Andrei Codrescu -
 Jessa Crispin of Bookslut -  Richard Hell -  Tom Hodgkinson of The Idler -  Toby Litt -  DBC Pierre -  Neal Pollack -
 Jude Rodgers of Smoke -  Scarlett Thomas -  Matt Thorne -  Peter Wild of Bookmunch Whether that list is for my or your benefit remains to be seen.
