There were a total of 2519 people who voted in the 1st annual Urban Fantasy Cover Art Awards!
Considering the number of voters, I can’t believe how close the race was in a few categories, and conversely my sympathies go out to any cover that was nominated along with the unstoppable juggernaut that is Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick. As promised, the titles are now linked to Amazon if you want to find out more about any given book or buy them. I did my best to track down the artists/photographers responsible for the cover art for each of the nominated books, but this information is often unavailable. My apologies to those I could not find. If I missed you, or if there are any corrections I need to make, please let me know and I’ll update this post. The winners of the voters prizes will be listed at the bottom of this post along with the Cover of the Year poll and giveaway.
Authors, artists, publishers etc. If you won, feel free to grab the graphic for your site:
Here is the incomplete list of people responsible for the beautiful covers we’ve all been voting for:
| Artist | Cover(s) |
| Thomas Egner | The Night Huntress series by Jeaniene Frost |
| Bruce Emmett | Strange Brew anthology |
| Jaime DeJesus | Unfallen Dead by Mark Del Franco |
| Daniel Dos Santos | All of Patricia Briggs covers |
| Fernanda Brussi Gonçalves | Fallen by Lauren Kate |
| Juliana Kolesova | Mark of the Demon by Diana Rowland |
| Tony Mauro | Spider Touched by Jory Strong |
| Chris McGrath | Deathwish by Rob Thurman, Scarlet by Jordan Summers |
| Cliff Nielsen | Darker Angels by M L N Hanover, Jessica’s Guide to Dating on The Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey |
| Dawn Pope | Destiny of the Wolf by Terry Spear |
| James Porto | Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick, The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare |
| Larry Rostant | Allie Beckstrom series by Devon Monk, White Witch Black Curse by Kim Harrison |
| Kimberly Schamber | Would-Be Witch by Kimberly Frost |
| Don Sipley | Deadtown by Nancy Holzner, Bad to the Bone by Jeri Smith-Ready, Dawnbreaker by Jocelynn Drake, Dark Time by Dakota Banks, Unleashed by John Levitt |
| Sharon Tancredi | Tempest Rising by Nicole Peeler |
| Joel Tippe | The Dark Divine by Bree Despain |
| Mark Tucker | Fragile Eternity by Melissa Marr |
| Victoria Vebell | On the Edge by Ilona Andrews |
| Chad Michael Ward | Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews |
| Jason Chan | Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev |
Craig White
| Huntress anthology, Covet by J.R. Ward, Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong, Kiss Of A Demon King by Kresley Cole, Lover Avenged by J. R. Ward, Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand by Carrie Vaughn |
And the winning covers are…
The winners of the voters prizes (chosen by Randomizer.com) are:
A signed copy of Deadtown by Nancy Holzner (nominee for Best Debut Cover) goes to #44. Sandy from USA whose email starts with gulliblemook A signed copy of Hex in High Heels by Linda Wisdom (nominee for Best Floating Head Cover) along with a couple hexy goodies goes to # 1881. Marie from USA whose email begins with Fuerte541 A copy of Destiny of the Wolf by Terry Spear (Winner for Best Male with Animal Cover) goes to #1434. Cecilia Huddleston from USA whose email begins with ceciliah A personalized copy of The Cold Kiss of Death by Suzanne McLeod (nominee for Best Floating Head Cover) *UK only goes to #1855. Kelley from the UK whose email begins with butterfly.toodles 2 copies of My Soul To Take by Rachel Vincent goes to #1031. Kelley from USA whose email begins with evanskelley & #692. Mengxi from Canada whose email begins with marcyzhang8 Grand Prize: $25 Amazon Gift Certificate plus your choice of any one book that wins its category goes to # 2483. Erica from Australia whose email begins with erica_stacy Congratulations! I’ve emailed each of you please respond within 72 hours or new winners will be chosen.
But wait…There is one more award to give out and one more chance to win! The votes are in, the winning covers have been announced. Now its time to pit them all against each other (excluding Most Anticipated Cover and Best Covers in a Series) and pick the urban fantasy Cover of the Year! Everyone who votes in this category (*open internationally) will be eligible to win the Cover of the Year 2009 book. The winning cover and voter will be announced on January 8th Click HERE to cast your vote for Cover of the Year 2009. One voter will win the winning book. Open internationally.
Special Thanks to the MANY, MANY people who helped make this possible: The Panel of Experts who spent hours narrowing down the hundreds of books published in 2009 to the five covers in each category; the generous authors and Jayne from eHarlequin.com Community who offered books and goodies to the voters; Tynga from Tynga’s Blog Design for whipping up the button for the awards; and to all of you who promoted the awards. I shutter to think what this would have been without each one of you. Thank you!
