AND THE WINNERS ARE…

Twenty-two people who entered the Be A Character in the Next Lomax & Biggs Book contest last year are now actually characters in Cut, Paste, Kill.

And here they are:

John Breiling
Kelly Jo Brownfield
Tara Cibelli
Glynnis Campbell
Kelly Cummings
Hector DeJean
Joe Donahue
Lori Gibson
Jim Gibson
Bruce Gadansky
Amy Gray
Chris High
Cullin Herwig
Graham Jaenicke
Shelly Lawter
Shelly LeBlanc
Gary Miller
Nancy Segerberg
Lauren Swan
Betsy Tuel
Johnny Walmark
Elizabeth Sneed White

You may be wondering — who are these twenty-two people and how did they wind up getting in the book?

Almost half of them busted their asses to write about, blog about, or otherwise promote Lomax and Biggs, and I’m a big believer in quid pro quo. Several of them helped me when I was researching Cut, Paste, Kill. Two work for my publisher and one works for my agent, and I’m also a big believer in sucking up. Some of them won my contests, and some won me over with their warm, funny, charming, and/or totally off the wall emails and Facebook messages. And some, as promised, had their names drawn out of a hat — totally random.

I’ll be picking a new batch of names for the next Lomax & Biggs book, so keep an eye out for random opportunities on the contest page, in my blogs or on my daily Facebook posts.

And to this year’s winners, congratulations. You are now immortal. In fiction, if not in real life.