And the winners are… 

The overall trope for Bluestocking Belles’ 2018 holiday boxed set will be “Prodigal Child.” Four winners will specify various story elements that will appear in all the stories in the boxed set. They are:

 

April Parmelee won the right to describe a secondary character to be used in all the stories

Merrie Weiler won the right to describe an animal to appear in all the stories

Yevehenii Pokutnii won the right to describe an object to be used in all the stories

Kim Hansen won the right to choose one of these (or an equivalent appropriate to the story’s time period) to appear in every story: transportation by foot, ship, raft, horse, mule, dog-cart, goat-cart, rowboat, small sailboat, elegant carriage, landau, curricle, or phaeton— (absolutely no camels or elephants)

And then…

  • All the Belles will use the chosen elements in their stories
  • The winners will be acknowledged in the book
  • Each of the winners will also receive a print copy of the book.