Contest Winner!
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Cartography Contest! The winner is:
Jackson Bakse!
(Jackson wisely entered a bunch of times, but the comment random.org picked was: Shady Acres, in TANGLED. Which is perfect, considering what happens in BOUND. Well played, Jackson!)
I would post more but I am recovering from sunburn and a day of extremes: the Soccer Tournament from Hell which went about as well as you can imagine, and the delight that is the Printers' Row Lit Fest in Chicago, where I got to talk with some a bunch of very cool authors about what it means to write YA without writing "down", and then ate dinner at Sepia, where I had the most delicious scallops I've ever encountered in my life and discovered that Julie Cross's husband is as cool as she is, which is no mean feat.
(Side note: Parents of school-aged children. Please chill the hell out. It's a soccer game filled with nine and ten year old girls, not the World Cup. THEY'RE NINE. Nobody's scholarship is riding on the outcome of this game. Our nation's honor is not at stake. You're sucking the fun out of summer. QUIT. IT.)
Here are the authors from the Printers' Row panel, by the way. They were all articulate and funny and insightful -- I could have chatted with them for ages, and you should absolutely check them out!
And now I am going to put some more aloe on my shoulders and get back to work. I'll have another ARC contest later this week, so be sure to check back.
