And the winner is...

The winner of my first and only Book Cover Design Contest™ *dun dun dun....* is Chris with a cover that made me gasp a little when I opened it for the first time (click to embiggen). To be honest the font doesn't make me want to do backflips, but the colors are WOW and who doesn't love a picture of a hot chick in a pool?! Plus, she's swimming and I totally have a small swimming scene in the novel. It can't be helped, I think it's fate. Plus envisioning Chris on the floor laughing that a programmer won the contest is almost reason enough to declare him a winner (let's work on the fonts next time, shall we?). So for all his effort Chris is being rewarded with a copy of my book AND a free 8x10 print from the gallery... if he so chooses, that is.

BUT WAIT!, there's more!

God the holidays are getting to me this year and I'm feeling so freagin' generous it's probably going to make me explode before I even get the chance to open presents. In addition to our winner it turns out I've chosen 2 and a half runners-up who will get free 8x10 prints *of their choosing* as well!!! No, they won't get to read the book but WHO CARES?! MORE FREE PRINTS!

The first runner-up is Char, with her rendition of a tall, dark, and gorgeous hunk of burning love. You know, how can I *not* give a prize to her for something like this? Would you just LOOK at those abs? Oh god! Okay, I'm done. Thank you for this Char. No really, thank you.

The second runner-up is Julian for creative use of curves and color. Seriously, women's curves are hot and this one would have had a stronger chance of winning if I had more girl-on-girl scenes written in to the novel. Er, no wait. That came out the wrong way. What I meant to say was, you know, more scenes of girls interacting with other girls... okay, yeah. Whatever. You know what I mean. Sickos.

The 1/2 runner-up is Chris, again, not only because he stuffed the ballot box but because DAMN! This one gets the award for most creative use of duotone. But you know what? It doesn't even need that stupid lame title cuz would you just LOOK! at him? I wish I had more of a main male character so I could have picked this cover. Alas, Mr. Wonderful really has nothing to do with the point of the book and had to be passed over for sassy swimming trunks *sigh*.

Thank you to all the participants... you guys made my month. If you're Chris, Char, or Julian you'll need to email me your address and which FREE 8x10 PRINT you want. Hugs all around, big hugs. Next year we'll play this game again with Steve's book cover behind his back when he asks me to design it. Heh. That'd be all funny 'n stuff.