Contest #1 ...

WE HAVE WINNERS!

And here they are...

Our two Grand Prize winners:
Isaac Richmond and Emmett Sanders - both of whom have characters named after them in Trigger City, coming October 14.

And our runner-up winners have won some great swag (a limited edition signed short story chapbook and a Big City Bad Blood poster):
Sally MacDonald
Deborah Webster
Gerald Drobsky
Juan Ortega
Laura Wisemann

Congratulations to all.

We will be giving away more great prizes this fall, so be sure to sign up for my email newsletter. If you're already a subscriber, you don't need to do anything. All newsletter subscribers are automatically entered.

Contest #2 (for librarians only) ...

What happens if a newbie author holds a contest and nobody enters?

I dunno. But that's what happened here.

Having read that libraries are strapped for funding, I tried to give away a bookstore gift certificate to a library. I figured it was a good way to give something back to the librarians who've been so kind by recommending Big City, Bad Blood to their patrons and having me as a guest speaker in their libraries.

And I got a good number of responses . . . but no entries. The librarians who wrote said that the contest (which was based on finding the geographical error in BC,BB) was too time-consuming, even with the clues provided.

Point taken. Lesson learned.

When TRIGGER CITY is released, I'll post a new contest for librarians, and I promise it'll be less onerous.