They Are the Champions

Just prior to my departure for San Francisco and Bouchercon 2010 last week, I announced the start of The Rap Sheet’s latest book-giveaway contest. The prizes this time: three copies of the criminally clever short-story collection Beat to a Pulp: Round One (CreateSpace), edited by David Cranmer and Elaine Ash. Since then, more than 90 people have entered that competition. After a random drawing of names earlier this morning, I can now identify the winners. They are:

• Bruce Grossman of Fall River, Massachusetts
• Elizabeth Marr of Broomfield, Colorado
• Alec Cizak of Indianapolis, Indiana

Congratulations to all three lucky future recipients of Beat to a Pulp: Round One. Those books should be sent out later this week.

And if you didn’t win this contest ... well, just stay tuned. The Rap Sheet already has a couple more competitions of this sort in the works.