Dear Author: Romance Book Reviews, Author Interviews, and Commentary

The disbursal of prize booty may take a bit longer, but graphics? We got yer graphics right here!

For Colleen Gleason, who won the tournament for her book The Rest Falls Away, a fancy shnazzy graphic proclaming you teh winnah:

For Laura D, whose pointacular bracket allowed her to gain the people’s ovation and fame forever, we have:

For Joyce D, whose equally pointactular bracket in the 2nd Chance Tourney has allowed her a sizeable portion of that ovation and fame referenced above, we have:

AND!!! I got my own Duchess Title:

I never thought I would ever EVER get a Duchess title because I totally suck at the Friday quizzes. I’m speechless.

Results of the Paranormal v. Historical (Round 1 of the Final Four)

DA Results:

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SB Results:

The winner is Nora Robert’s High Noon which won by a total of 136 votes. At the SB site, Robert’s book won by 83 votes and here at DA, it won by 53 votes.

The Championship Round is now in progress. We’ll begin the post mortem on Tuesday. I know you guys are so excited you are about to pee your pants.

Click on the links to our sponsors to let them know that you actually are paying attention to the contest. It’s for a good cause (not really, but the words “good cause” usually gets people to do things that they wouldn’t ordinarily do).

Final Round - it’s championship time! Vote here, and over at Smart Bitches in the championship round of the 2008 DA BWAHA. One book is proclaimed our Book of the Year, and the post-mortem hand-wringing and trash-talking can begin. The 2008 showdown: Colleen Gleason’s The Rest Falls Away versus Nora Roberts’ High Noon.

Click early, click often, and click in both places, as we’ll be totaling up the votes and announcing the winners come Tuesday morning.

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Results of the Paranormal v. Historical (Round 1 of the Final Four)

DA Results:

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SB Results:

The winner is Colleen Gleason’s The Rest Falls Away which won by a total of 37 votes. At the SB site, Colleen’s book garnered 38 more votes than Elizabeth Hoyt’s The Serpent Prince. At DA, The Serpent Prince received one more vote than The Rest Falls Away. Don’t forget to vote in the second of the Final Four polls: Erotica/Erotic Romance v. Contemporary both here and at Smart Bitches.

Click on the links to our sponsors to let them know that you actually are paying attention to the contest. It’s for a good cause (not really, but the words “good cause” usually gets people to do things that they wouldn’t ordinarily do).

If you haven’t noticed, DA and SBTB were merged in hostile friendly takeover which took the form of a book against book tournament. We slated 64 books in 8 categories which netted 8 winners. (imagine that 8 winners in 8 categories, we are like math geniuses or geni or whatever).

The current leader is Cecilia T. You can see the whole slate of brackets here. We held a second chance pool and the current leader is Marci S. The entire slate of the 2nd chance brackets are here.

The Elite Eight was winnowed down to the Final Four with only one number one seeding surviving: High Noon by Nora Roberts. On Saturday, April 5, SB and DA will feature the Final Four battle between dark house and thirteen seed, The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason against the Historical favorite, number 3 seed, The Serpent Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt

On the other side of the bracket is a death match battle between Fairyville by Emma Holly (also a 13 seed) and the prohibitive favorite, High Noon by Nora Roberts….

Poll is closed. Results are as follows. See the updated standings at the Official DA BWAHA site.

The Elite Eight books are:

Young Adult: Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
Paranormal: The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason
Novel with Romantic Elements: Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
Historical: The Serpent Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt
Erotica/Erotic Romance: Fairyville by Emma Holly
GLBT: Master of Obsidian by Jamie Craig
Category: Billionaire Next Door by Jessica Bird
Contemporary: High Noon by Nora Roberts

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Poll is closed. Results are as follows. See the updated standings at the Official DA BWAHA site.

The Elite Eight books are:

Young Adult: Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
Paranormal: The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason
Novel with Romantic Elements: Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
Historical: The Serpent Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt
Erotica/Erotic Romance: Fairyville by Emma Holly
GLBT: Master of Obsidian by Jamie Craig
Category: Billionaire Next Door by Jessica Bird
Contemporary: High Noon by Nora Roberts

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Paperspine
Harlequin
Turn the Page Bookstore who is donating our prize to the second place bracket.

Poll is closed. Results are as follows. See the updated standings at the Official DA BWAHA site.

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Special thanks to our sponsors:

Paperspine
Harlequin
Turn the Page Bookstore who is donating our prize to the second place bracket.

On Thursday 27 March: Novel with Romantic Elements & Historical go head to head again in the Elite Eight.

Then on Friday 28 March: GLBT and Erotic Romance/Erotica.

There are some big match ups here at Smart Bitches and at here. So vote and reload a few thousand times. I’m right there with you.

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Poll is closed. Results are as follows. See the updated standings at the Official DA BWAHA site.

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Special thanks to our sponsors:

Paperspine
Harlequin
Turn the Page Bookstore who is donating our prize to the second place bracket.