You guys don’t make this easy on a girl, but I somehow managed to narrow the design submissions down to six finalists.

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(My goal was to get it down to five but I simply COULD NOT cut any of these six – I love them all so much, and it had already broken my heart to have to cut some other beloved submissions. Because OMG you guys are AMAZING.)

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In case anyone is wondering what my thought process was for choosing the finalists, I mostly imagined two scenarios:

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1. If I were in high school and I saw this sticker on a classmate’s binder, would it pique my interest enough to ask about it?

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2. As an author and promoter of my own books, how much do I want to stick this design EVERYWHERE?

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Those two questions, plus a lot of back and forth and hard decisions, led me to our finalists…

And now, YOU guys have the toughest part of all. Voting for the grand prize winner!

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