Welcome to the DABWAHA Tournament 2010. For newcomers, the DA BWAHA is a tournament of books where we put up a field of 64 books and you vote until there is one book, one champion. The contest is twofold. First, you must fill out a bracket identifying which book will win each round. Then you vote.
The top bracketologist will win an iPAD from All Romance Ebooks and Omnilit. There will be intermediate prizes as well. You can shop for your ebooks at a special ebookstore from All Romance eBooks or paper copies from our Amazon store (we get 6% referral fee).
Selection Sunday is March 14, 2009, and you will have three days to fill out your bracket. Come back on March 18th and begin voting. BOOKMARK THIS SITE. IT IS WHERE THE VOTING TAKES PLACE. A printable list of the finalists is here.
This year we have eliminated the Erotic Romance section and placed those erotic books that made the cut in the appropriate category. That freed us up to add a new category and given the numerous good UF / Crossover books that appeal to romance readers, we added a category for those books. This may change next year and we would love to hear your feedback. As always, you can reach us at dabwaha@gmail.com or in the following ways:
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Novel with Romantic Elements is a category that includes books or stories that have romantic elements but are not UF Crossover or Fantasy stories.
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We have some awesome prizes this year. To our winning bracketologist, All Romance eBooks and OmniLit are donating an iPad and a $100 GC for ebooks to fill up your new ebook reader. Woo!
Smartbitches and DearAuthor are sponsoring a $200 Gift Certificate for the author of the winning book to be used to the spa of her choice.
From Unusual Historicals comes an awesome book package for the winner of round 1. Books have been donated by Sherry Thomas, Margaret Mallory, Lisa Marie Wilkinson, TJ Bennet, Michelle Styles, Zoe Archer, Lorelie Brown, Maureen Lang, Elizabeth Lane, Carrie Lofty, and Jade Lee
Round 2 is for the bracketologist who is at the top after the field is voted down to the Sweet Sixteen. Author Maya Banks has volunteered to give a prize pack to the Round 2 winner.
From author Maya Banks: a $50 GC to Amazon or BN (readers choice) and a book package that includes signed copies of Sweet Surrender, Sweet Persuasion and Sweet Seduction and an ARC of The Darkest Hour.
Round 3 brings us closer to the end. By this time, our field of 64 will be down to 8 and the winner up to this point will receive a gift certificate and prize pack from author Lorelei James/Lori Armstrong.
From Lorelei James/Lori Armstrong: a $50 Gift card to Borders and a book package that includes signed copies of Long Hard Ride, No Mercy, and Blood Ties.
Round 4 means we are down to just 4 books. 4! Tor is sponsoring the winner of Round 4 with a special selection of books. Thanks Tor!
A Tor prize pack of ARCS and finished copies from both the SFF and Romance sections.
Round 5 leaves us with the two books left to compete in the championship round. Several Penguin books made it into the slate of finalists and you’ll see many of those in a special book package sponsored by Berkley/Jove, a division of Penguin.
Round 5’s prize is a Berkley/Jove prize pack. Read more about the Berkley Jove authors here.
From Oddshots for the Worst Bracket, the Wooden Spoon:
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and a Wooden Spoon with some speciality chocolates the loser can eat to console herself.
Is your bracket destroyed? Did your picks go awry? Do you find yourself tied for 500th place and full of despair? Weep no more, bracketeers, because our 2nd Chance Tourney is created just for you. The stakes aren’t as high but the prizes are just as fine.
The winning bracketeer is going to get a brand new Kindle from the fine folks at Samhain.
Jennifer Estep, author of the new Elemental Assassin series, is contributing a $50 Amazon gift card, a copy of Spider’s Bite and an e-ARC of Web of Lies? And matching bookmarks, of course. Because you can never have too many bookmarks. This prize will go to a RANDOM non winning bracketologist. Hopefully someone tied for 500th place.
Go forth and pick new brackets and be hopeful once again. (And keep up with the tournament results, check your bracket, and your neighbor’s bracket HERE).