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Frozen Sun Cover Design Election Yes, the cover
design election's over, and here's the winner, featuring the lovely
Heidi Johnson -- an Alaska Native from Cordova -- as model.The keen of eye and sharp of memory will realize that this was actually not one of the covers up for a vote in the election. Yes, sad but true, the election was in fact rigged, and thereby hangs a tale. When it comes to publishing a book, everybody in the production chain gets a vote, but there is one voter who counts more than all the others combined. And that voter would be the distributor. Not to burden innocent readers with the seamy secrets of the book trade, but the distributor is all-important, for it is the distributor's sales force that actually goes out and peddles books to the bookstores. The distributor, who theoretically knows what covers will sell, rejected all the designs in our election, preferring instead an old and discarded design not even included in the election. That version, buffed, polished, retouched, and perfected, appears here. Which version, then, did win our election before it was rigged by the distributor? All six versions appear below. And the winner was . . . Version 6, which I always thought of as the Guy in the Eye. It got 38 votes, versus 34 for the runner-up (Version 2, also featuring the fabulous Heidi). Thanks to all who voted, and apologies to the 38 supporters of Version 6 -- the Al Gore version, as I now call it. You was robbed, but what's a poor author to do? -- Stan Jones
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