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 [...]

Tear down the streamers. Deflate the balloons. The Dance is over (that’s what they call the NCAA Tournament). The winners of the first annual DA BWAHA are as follows:
Colleen Gleason’s The Rest Falls Away is our champion and is awarded

A bad ass feather quill pen with which to pen her next romantic [...]

Results of the Paranormal v. Historical (Round 1 of the Final Four)
DA Results:
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. [...]

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 [...]

Results of the Paranormal v. Historical (Round 1 of the Final Four)
DA Results:
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 [...]

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. [...]

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: [...]

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: [...]

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

Poll is closed. Results are as follows. See the updated standings at the Official DA BWAHA site.
Special thanks to our sponsors:

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.
Special thanks to our sponsors:

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

Here’s the upcoming schedule of voting. We’ll be holding the votes open from noon to midnight for each round from now until the finale.
Round 3: March 27-28 (Sweet Sixteen)
Round 4: March 29-20 (Elite 8)
Round 5: April 5 Final Four
Round 6: April 7 Championship
Don’t forget we have 2 tourneys going [...]

Poll is closed. Results are as follows. See the updated standings at the Official DA BWAHA site.
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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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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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Thanks to our sponsors:

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

Sarah and I had a few email messages from people in far reaching parts of the globe who were bummed out that they couldn’t vote. So, hello South Korea! G’Day Australia! Today and tomorrow for round 2, we’ll be hosting two polls at Smart Bitches and Dear Author for twelve hours each. So from midnight [...]

So your bracket didn’t work out the way you wanted? We are giving you a second chance.
We have a second chance pool available to you (and newcomers) starting with the winners of the first round and extending to the final round. The details will be up at Dear Author and Smart [...]

Poll is closed. Results are as follows. See the updated standings at the Official DA BWAHA site.
Thanks to our sponsors:

Paperspine
Harlequin

Poll is closed. Results are as follows. See the updated standings at the Official DA BWAHA site.
Thanks to our sponsors:

Paperspine
Harlequin

Poll is closed. Results are as follows. See the updated standings at the Official DA BWAHA site.
Thanks to our sponsors:

Paperspine
Harlequin

Poll is closed. Results are as follows. See the updated standings at the Official DA BWAHA site.
Thanks to our sponsors:

Paperspine
Harlequin

I’ve got some emails wondering what the heck all this picking and polling and point scoring is about. Here’s the explanation.
There are 64 books that are competing against each other for the ONE BOOK TO RULE THEM ALL. 300+ people filled out a bracket identifying which book that they thought would win each [...]

Poll is closed. Results are as follows. See the updated standings at the Official DA BWAHA site.
Thanks to our sponsors:

Paperspine
Harlequin

Poll is closed. Results are as follows. See the updated standings at the Official DA BWAHA site.
Thanks to our sponsors:

Paperspine
Harlequin

Poll is closed. Results are as follows. See the updated standings at the Official DA BWAHA site.
Thanks to our sponsors:

Paperspine
Harlequin

Poll is closed. Results are as follows. See the updated standings at the Official DA BWAHA site.
Thanks to our sponsors:

Paperspine
Harlequin

It’s March Madness time which means brackets, spoilers, and, of course, romance books! Admittedly, the last element of the list is a rarely known component of March Madness, one that is often lost amongst the basketball hoopla. Which is so wrong, we will do all kinds of crazy shit to make it right.
We thought [...]