In an amusing twist, it turns out that one of the randomly chosen winners of the UK edition of The Deception of the Emerald Ring was, in fact, an old friend. Since she has perpetual access to me and my Closet o’ Books, she has generously offered to toss her copy back into the pool.
The new winner will be announced on Monday.
What with covers and contests and all sorts of other things (ahem, Pink IX, ahem) this has been a relatively anemic reading week for me. Here’s my meager list:
I apologize for the delay in announcing the winners of The Deception of the Emerald Ring (UK) and The Temptation of the Night Jasmine. Technological gremlins took over the site for a bit. Fortunately, they seem to have been vanquished (i.e. I was able to log in.)
The winners of the British edition of The Deception of the Emerald Ring are….
– Amanda (Comment #148)
– chbs (Comment #204)
– Angie (Comment #96)
The winners of The Temptation of the Night Jasmine are….
– Veronica and Emily.
Congrats, all!! And thanks so much to everyone for participating.
Words fail to express how impressed I was by the inventive and eye-catching covers that came my way during the Orchid Affair Cover Contest. To everyone who participated, I thank you for your creativity, your talent, and your time.
And now for the part we’ve all been waiting for… the unveiling of the winning covers!
In Third Place, we have #32:
(Created by Sara McEachern)
In Second Place, #16:
(Created by Amanda Bacon)
And in First Place…
…with a vast majority…
<< drum roll >>
… #5!
(Created by Julie Lund)
I know I said I was only going to give away three prizes, but what do rules exist for but to be broken?
In fourth place, we have an Honorable Mention, which goes to #52:
(Created by Beth Meehan)
A second Honorable Mention goes to Stephanie Ball, creator of #31, for a truly honorable act in pointing out my clerical error.
Congratulations!! As soon as I have my ARCs of Orchid Affair, there’s one for each of you….
Winners of Night Jasmine and the UK edition of Emerald Ring will be announced tomorrow.
The winners of the Orchid Affair Cover Contest will be announced in just a couple of hours!
Winners of the secondary and tertiary prizes (aka Emerald Ring and Night Jasmine) will be announced on Thursday, just because it’s more fun to break it up a bit.
… to put in your votes for the Orchid Affair Cover Contest!
You can find all the entries here.
Three people who vote will be chosen at random to receive copies of the British edition of The Deception of the Emerald Ring.
Two people who tweet, blog, or otherwise spread the word about the contest will receive copies of the trade paperback of The Temptation of the Night Jasmine.
(Sorry, no partridge in a pear tree. I’m saving that for the release of The Mischief of the Mistletoe.)
Lest we forget the books for the covers, here, after a few weeks’ absence–sorry about that!– is our traditional Weekly Reading Round-Up.
As many of you know, I was off at the RWA conference all last week.
(These are from the Literacy Signing on Wednesday.)
I came back with piles and piles of books, through which I’ve been happily reading. Here’s the haul so far:
There are several people who are owed Orchid Affair ARCs for their fabulous contributions to the Title That Book contest back in the spring.
I don’t actually have the ARCs yet (I’m hoping they’ll show up sometime this month), but I just wanted to let you know that I haven’t forgotten about you, Liz, Veronica, Robyn, Diya, Devan and Allison! As soon as I have those ARCs, the first six are yours….
For a fun flashback, here are the winning titles– picked by popular acclaim– from the Title That Book contest:
Since the more judges we have, the more objective the Cover Contest voting will be (and because I really need to clear out my closet), I’ll be offering signed copies of the paperback of The Temptation of the Night Jasmine to two people chosen at random from among all those who tweet, blog, Facebook post, or otherwise spread the word about the contest between now and next Tuesday.
And now back to our regularly scheduled contest….
Guess what just arrived in the mail today? Gorgeous, hot-off-the-presses copies of the British edition of The Deception of the Emerald Ring.
Emerald Ring makes its official UK debut on 6 September, 2010.
In the meantime, the books are too pretty not to share. I’ll be giving away three copies to people chosen at random from among those who have voted in the Orchid Affair Cover Contest. Winners of the British edition of Emerald Ring will be announced at the same time as the winners of the Cover Contest.
Some concerns have been expressed to me about the voting in the Cover Contest. This site operates on an honor system (or an honour system), so please play fair!
