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We wrapped up the Backer contest for Scott Sigler's new novel, Ancestor this Monday. It was a fantastic contest, with over 140 of Scott's fans (or junkies, as they're collectively known) hitting the virtual pavement and spreading the word about his novel. His fans drove over 14,000 views of the Ancestor landing page on BackMyBook. But the most surprising twist is how the contest was won! Below is the excerpt from the [blogpost](http://www.scottsigler.com/node/4122) on ScottSigler.com, announcing the winner. That just goes to show the power and generosity of an author community. ---- Here's why there ain't no Junkies like Sigler Junkies: The winner, Jessica, was competing because she suffers from Fibromyalgia, and thought the lightweight nook would help her keep up her lifelong reading habit. She posted about the contest on her Fibromyalgia awareness blog, and set off to win. (I spoke with her to make sure she cool with me mentioning her here.) When she joined the contest, Joseph Aldred had been hammering away at it for a week, and was in the lead with about 1500 points. When he read her post, he says, "Knowing how much I bitch about the "me" culture we live in, I posted to my friends and sent out emails to not click for me, and if anything, help her. For me the nook would be a cool gadget, but is something so much more for her. It would help her be able to do something that she loves at a time that is increasingly more difficult to have any semblance of normality. I am extremely, EXTREMELY happy that she won." Jessica backed ANCESTOR, and Joseph backed Jessica's play. That is some kind of class, and that's how it's done. Good man. ----