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The Book of 40 $1,000 Book-Shopping Spree Promo has a winner!

To bring to life Idea 36 in Book of 40, “Books make like (and you!) better”, a promo was offered. The winner would get a $1,000 book shopping-spree!

All you had to do to enter was to send a photo of yourself holding Book of 40 (proof of purchase!), as these guys did:

ALEXIS LOINAZ

AUGUSTINE NARCIDA

BIANCA ANCIANO

BRANDIE TAN

BRENT SABAS

CARLOS GUADARRAMA

CAT CANTADA

CEY ENRIQUEZ PONFERRADA

COOKIE ARNAIZ

DAN TINGCUNGCO

DAVE FERRER

EJ SALCEDO

ENA SAMANIEGO

FABO (THE-WINNER!!!)

GRACIE VERGARA

IAN STA MARIA

INES BAUTISTA YAO

ISA NATIVIDAD SOMERA

IYA DE LOS SANTOS

JACQUE DIRMANN

JENNIE PANES

JESSICA YENKO

JOF SERING

JONAH BROACKA

JP ALBITO

LIA MALFERRARI

MARGE MELENDEZ ALBITO

MARY VELMONTE

MAY GARCIA DALISAY

MIMI TECSON

MISSY GALANG-MAVABANTE AND FRANKIE

NINGNING SERING

PAOLO SALCEDO

RAUL MABANAG

RAUL TAN

REGGIE NOLIDO

RIZA SANTOS LANOT

ROBIN LATONIO

ROSE YENKO

SUE ANN MALIG NOLIDO

SYDNEY SAMODIO

TARA SANTOS

TWEET SERING

VANESSA DINGCONG

Then you had to recommend a book that you thought Book of 40 author Kat Gomez-Limchoc should read, and tell her why in a sentence or two. (We’ll be releasing that awesome list in another post soon!)

All the names of those who submitted a valid entry were then put in a hat, and Kat picked a winner via this video:

And the winner was the artist, Fa Bo!
(He even sweetly offered to buy a book for the others who joined the promo!)

Congratulations, Fa Bo!