I got an email from Chris Howard, he's read all the submissions and the good news is, he wasn't able to pick just one winner, he picked FOUR from you're awesome stories.
As Kassandra floats through the water kicking butt here read on to find out who won while imagining the drum roll in your head.
Chris' email:
And the winner is...
Some great and crazy funny storytelling here. I love them all, brightened my day--and at the same time darkened it: this really exposed the lack of cats in my work--and it's not like I don't have cats, dogs and various other animal life running around the house. So, "more cats in print and paint" is my new mantra.
Here's a quick list of everything I read:
carolynturgeon - Roswell's got it bad for the mer-cat
platyg - Letter to Kylosidy and underwater purring
spacedlaw - Inner-tuna and sardines with tits
jayphoenix - Roswell the selkie goes through some serious changes but finds a good home
circle23 - Cyle Kassidy and his adventure loving cat, Roswell...and--dammit--a torpedo
cybrus - Roswell the protector and Kassandra kicks some mer-man ass
schitzometric - Roswell The (perhaps too curious) Cat Swims the Blues
dujour - Roswell takes sides in the warz @ C!
heidi2524 - Roswell defends her dreamwalking man for the perfect reasons
zaichick - Alice the mermaid dreams of monsters...or is it Roswell stirring the dreams of goldfish?
glowsw - Roswell: mer-cat ambassador to the humans and the forgotten wiseness of cats
alevai - Cats dream like fantasy writers, of jewels and quests and feasting on the warm goo in the bellies of enemies
supersly - Roswell finds the army of boggy bad guys, but will she survive to tell the news?
howlokitty - Ro’S’Well the underwater goddess pretends to go fishing but really presents gifts
nokomis1339 - Roswell and her Mer-Kats rescue K.A.S.W warriors.
kathmuse - Roswell offers her insights on those amusing humans
lois2037 - Roswell against the Deep Ones, and she does some cool cat magic to get rid of them
Paul Liadis - Nemo up to his old tricks, Kassandra and Roswell under way again
irulan_amy - Roswell rules the kitchen and discovers her destiny.
This was difficult, but I managed to get it down to four and select one winner. Because I'm not going to ask kyle to buy four copies of Seaborn, I'd like to send schitzometric (who will also get the book), cybrus, Paul Liadis, and irulan_amy a print of one of the watercolor panels that went into my Saltwater Witch web comic. This one here--Kassandra telling a sea-demon where the bathroom is--"Second door on the left" Not really, something like that, though:
http://the0phrastus.typepad.com/photos/portfolio/switchkassandraephorosseaborn.html WINNER (book + print):
schitzometric - Roswell The (perhaps too curious) Cat Swims the Blues
Runners up (print):
cybrus - Roswell the protector and Kassandra kicks some mer-man ass
irulan_amy - Roswell rules the kitchen and discovers her destiny.
Paul Liadis - Nemo up to his old tricks, Kassandra and Roswell under way again
Chris Howard
http://www.SaltwaterWitch.com So, schitzometric, send me your address at kyle at kylecassidy dot com so I can send you the book and everybody (schitzometric also) send your addresses to chrishoward.author at gmail dot com so that Chris can send you artwork. Congratulations to everyone!
Now, a question -- would y'all like to do this again?