We’ve tallied all the votes (and DAMN were there a lot of votes!) and we are happy to announce the winners of the First Annual Smart Bitches Trashy Books Bitchery Writing Award for Hellagood Authors!
I’d like to say, there were a LOT of close categories, so when you think to yourself, if you are not a winner this year, that it was an honor to be nominated, chances are you also almost kicked the ass of the winner – this voting was way tight, yo.
If you are a winner, please, contact me at candy @ smartbitchestrashybooks.com and sarah @ smartbitchestrashybooks.com with your name and postal address, so that I can mail you your prize, for use in writing your next novel: a fine, handcrafted, hot pink ostrich quill pen, made by the fine folks at Feather.com.au in Cairns, Australia. We Bitches go around the globe looking for appropriate prizes for our fine Bitchery authors.
And, of course, what SBTB contest would be complete without a button for your website announcing how utterly cool you are? Each category has a handmade-by-SB-Candy-and-her l33t-Photoshop-skillz graphic for use on your site – so right-click-and-download, por favor, and use to announce your fabulousness!
And without further ado, here are the results!
Best Contemporary
Oh, holy crap, we have a tie! The winners are:
Match Me If You Can
Breaking Point
Best Historical
Mr. Impossible
Best Series: Contemporary
Her Body of Work
Best Series: Historical
Dedication
Best Romantica
Bound to Trust
Best Erotica
Mercenaries
Best Paranormal: Vampires, Werewolves, and the Supernatural
Dark Lover
Best Paranormal: Science Fiction/Fantasy
Unmasked
Congrats to the winners!!!!!!
Er….*ashamed* I haven’t read ANY of the winners. Though I have a few in the tbr pile.
Hey, the one book I read and forgot to vote for won anyway! Yah Loretta Chase!
(Jaci’s is already in my TBR pile but I guess it’s time to check out the others. Such a prestigious prize doesn’t just go to anyone. . .)
Congrats everyone! Only read Lorretta Chase and Suzanne Brockmann but now have a reliable shopping list.
Yay for the winners! Don’t worry Nicole – I have a lot more to be ashamed of. Not only have I not read any of the winners, I’ve yet to read a romance novel.
I am PLANNING to, really, I am. Usually I read fantasy and sci-fi, but a friend turned to this site, so I want to start reading romances, too.
Well, now I know which books to start with.
Congrats to everyone! Quite a group of winners, and I know they’ll display their awards with pride!
Congrats to all the winners. What’s cool is I have one of them in my pile right now. Gonna start it next.
omg omg omg I won? Really? Hot damn! This is so exciting!
Thank you bitches! And thanks to everyone who voted. What an honor.
And i get a pen, too? Holy crap. This is all too much! Wow. I’m truly honored.
Squeeeeee!!!!!!
Jaci
If my ass had to get kicked it’s some consolation that it was the fab CJ who kicked it. Congrats to all the winners!
Hmmm…. I guess rabid fangirls are useful for a some things then…
Yeah, congrats and all that to all the winners.
I can’t believe Unmasked won! Oh My God. Thank you!
And I’m quite sure I didn’t kick anyone’s butt! All the nominees were wonderful and deserving.
Many thanks to everyone for voting and to the Smart Bitches folk for the contest. Congratulations to all the winners and all the nominees. 🙂
cj
Congrats to all the winners!
Jaci, its clearly your week! RT and the SB’s! Can I rub…ouch…what? I was only going to ask for luck. Really.
Once again…CONGRATS & thanks SB for doing this!
Super congrats to all the winners *and* to all who were nominated! What an honor.
:cheese:
This is awesome! Thank you to everyone who voted and to the Bitches for doing this…
I am so psyched for that pen!
J.R.
A big thanks to Candy and Sarah and all the readers who voted! I’m thrilled to be among this awesome group of authors and I look forward to that cool pink pen.
Thanks so much!
Marie Donovan
HER BODY OF WORK, 2006 BWAHA 🙂
Can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to getting my pink tickly thing—it’s an honor to be one of the winners. Thanks, dear bitches everywhere.
Janet