From the accounting firm of My Pen and My Pad of Paper come the official results: the winner of the Ultimate Hero Gary Farber contest is Meredith for her entry about Gary – I mean, Ghery Fahrber. Nothing beats a good Ward parody. Even the email votes I received in my inbox were typed by hands still shaky after a full-body laugh at the idea of “speaking homie like a pro.”
Honorable mention goes to the many-layered and so-full-of-literary-references entry #8, by Shari. The towel reference nearly choked me. Mad props to you for that one.
Well played to all our entrants. And to Meredith, kneel, and receive your Smart Bitch Title®:
And a special bonus prize: To Gary Farber. Kneel and become a member of the Smart Bitch Peerage for your eloquent defense of the genre.
Congratulations, Meredith! And to everyone else, great job! So much talent and so funny—I laughed my ass off while reading these. A big thank you to the Smart Bitches for the contest!
A special thank you to those who liked my entry and said it made them want to know what happened next. THAT is a major compliment and I appreciate it so much. My entry was based on a story I’m writing—a paranormal with a mysterious returned-from-the-dead theme. It’ll be up on my own blog in a while, if anyone wants to be notified when just drop me an email at cee dot ell at gmail dot com and put notify in the subject line and I’ll let you know when.
Elle
Congrats to the winner! And everyone’s entries were great!
congrats to the winners, although really, i think everyone who got to read the entries are the real winners.
c dot l at gmail? or spelled out like that – cee dot ell?
That and the big dick…
Ghery Fharbher FTW!
I feel so honored. Thank you all…I had so much fun writing it. I’m an avid romance reader, and only write fiction—entirely for fun—once a year, for National Novel Writing Month (I’m a liasion for the Naperville, Illinois group), so I’m very flattered that I won!
I do give a lot of credit to JR Ward because, despite the fact that any big white guy speaking urban slang usually sounds very, very wrong, she does do a better job at making it convincing than many other authors (Hmm…L.A. Banks, anyone? *Shudder*).
I don’t update my livejournal as often as I want to (mostly because of 1. work and 2. life getting in the way) but I did do a review of Lover Revealed, if you’re interested.
http://itgreyhound1.livejournal.com/23241.html
Long live Ghery Fharbher! Hopefully Gary was happy with our portrayals.
Meredith
Hi Oakling—
Spelled out as in cee.ell 🙂
Elle
Congrats Meredith!
I was laughing so hard my husband came over to read what I was looking at. Then, of course, I had to explain the Ward books to him to explain why it was even funnier.
Just curious – but is that the first male SBTB title?
To the best of my knowledge, yes, that is the first male title, though I am sometimes unsure of the gender behind some of the usernames. This is, I believe, the first male peerage title we’ve made, however.
Rockhardbotham’s dance card will be a sought-after item, to be sure, at the next Peerage Ball, what with all these women and only one dude.
It’s just like Smurfette, only…reversed. Heh.
Gratz to Meredith—the Ghery Fharbher thing made me laugh until I thought I was going to come undone. Literally.
Congrats to the winners, and welcome to the Peerage!
Darlene, Duchess Twitterpants