The votes are being tallied

Judging by the pestering emails steadily arriving in my inbox you guys are anxious to know who the winner to my Uber Book Cover Design Contest is. Sadly, I'm going to delay a final decision until further this evening when I've had a chance to further review all the entries for the 50th time. They were all super fun and fantastic - you guys really do crack my shit up.

But, that doesn't change the fact you'll just have to wait and see.

In other news, things that don't do it for me:

1) When you email me in the 11th hour and ask me, "What was the name of your book again?" More than one person committed this crime and generally knew that being within a 30 foot radius of me would cause the throwing of sharp objects in the direction of their head or worse (which is of course why they safely hid behind an email and followed up a question like that with, "Actually, nevermind. I know better and will go look it up myself.").

2) If you don't know me, this issue can (and was) overlooked. But if we've chatted innumerable times and, more importantly, if you've been on the receiving end of some of my photographs or a pleasant conversation about photography 50 times over, do NOT under any circumstance put the competitor to my sweet Nikon D70 on the cover. As in, the *only* image on the cover. (Roger and I have discussed this violation in private and he assures me that he meant to follow up this atrocious violation with sparkly, extravagent gifts or an orange tabby kitten named Pierre - as the blockhead well should).

3) If you're a guy designing a cover, leave the shoes to the women m'kay? Steve knows I'm talking to him here. I'm not even going to go on about this point because the image he chose speaks volumes:

Bless his little heart, it was in the right place (I didn't even laugh once, honest!).

Stay tuned...