After the highly scientific tally using the accounting firm of My Pen and My Paper (let me show you them), the votes from the comments and from the lurkers who emailed me (hi lurkers!), we have teh winnahs of The Suzanne Brockmann is Awesome Happy Ending Contest.
If you read all those contest you now know that Bert + Ernie+ Fanfic = WIN! The runaway winner in the vote tally was #3 by Leslie.
Second place went to #8, by JenC.
Third place went to #9 by Luisa
Fourth place went to #5 by Cathleen
Fifth place went to #7 by Kari
Free books ahoy for the intrepid winners. Congratulations!
And an alert and word of warning to all you editors of erotica out there: your next anthology might need to be Big Spankable Muppets.
Hussah! I knew from watching Avenue Q that puppet sex is funny. Congrats, everyone!
I just want to thank everyone who voted for me, and to lavish praise onto my fellow writers here since I didn’t vote for anyone’s story on Saturday. What a fun contest!
Hey, this is the first thing I’ve ever gotten in exchange for writing. I think I’ll probably keep my day job, but it was lot’s of fun…and fun to see what other people came up with.
Hey, that was fun!
I don’t know if I’d call it fanfic, though. I was thinking: creative reappropriation of beloved cultural icons.
Rock on! I didn’t get online in time to vote (was at an all-day Autism seminar during voting time, dammit) but I sent up fervent hopes that Bert and Ernie would win. And they did! Whoo!
Of course, I’m not the least bit biased toward the first gay couple on TV. Nope. Not even though I watch them every day with the special needs child I work with. He loves the song Ernie sings about how his life just isn’t the same when Bert’s not in the bedroom with him… he SAYS Bert’s off at a pigeon-fancier’s conference, but we all know he was at those bath houses Teddy Pig mentioned…
heheheh … pigeon-fancier.