The “novel slash social media experiment,” Sweet by Design is finally over. It took a bit longer than I’d anticipated; reformatting the novel for WordPress was time-consuming. And since I was adding links and photography along with text the task grew even harder. But that was part of the experience. I do think publishing and communications are heading this way and I learned a great deal. Hopefully, some of you did too.
Thank you, each and every entrant, reader and observer for making my So-Me experiment a big success. More people read at least part of SBD than the combined total readers for my previous two novels combined.
I’d also like to thank my co-judge, best-selling author and digital publishing pioneer, M.J. Rose. Her input was a key factor in helping me choose the winning entries.
This is how the judging worked. The panel was divided into three voting parts. M.J. had a third of the vote, me another third, and your voting comments represented the final third. Pretty simple. Through this process, we came up with eight finalists, one of which will be chosen to be the cover of my novel, Sweet by Design as well as win the author’s unused iPad. The second place vote getter gets an iPod Shuffle.
The winners will be chosen shortly. Without further ado, here are the finalists:
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Sweet by Design
The Happy Soul Industry
The Last Generation
Sweet by Design 
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