Chip Gaines Just Revealed the Cover of His Upcoming Book

Megan Friedman
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Photo credit: Getty Images
Photo credit: Getty Images

From Country Living

Chip Gaines has been hard at work on his upcoming book, Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff. The Fixer Upper star has also been busy promoting it (or just procrastinating?) on social media.

A lot of y'all know I've been working hard on my book, Capital Gaines. I'm just about there, but I need your help to get this thing over the finish line. I've been staring at these cover options for so long that I feel like I need your thoughts. Head over to @magnolia to tell me your favorite and why. Then I'll reveal THE cover, that you helped me pick, on the @todayshow next Tuesday morning, 7/18. #CapitalGaines

A post shared by Chip Gaines (@chippergaines) on Jul 14, 2017 at 12:47pm PDT

This is what writer's block looks like at midnight. #capitalgaines #onedaymore #ormourn #lesmiserables @chippergaines

A post shared by Joanna Stevens Gaines (@joannagaines) on Jun 17, 2017 at 10:13pm PDT

But now, he's finally making things official by picking his book cover after an online vote. Chip had fans weigh in on three finalists for the cover on Magnolia's Instagram.

Chip and Joanna got fans excited with a miniature "drum roll" of sorts:

Drum roll please..I’ve got big news people-we finally landed on a book cover!! Now if I could just get the book part done.. ha! Thank you to everyone who was kind enough to give me your feedback-it really helped me decide on this beautiful cover. Lots of folks worked really hard, and today..I'm feeling really thankful. Now for the official cover reveal…tune in to the @todayshow tomorrow at 8:15am in every time zone to find out which one I picked! #CapitalGaines

A post shared by Chip Gaines (@chippergaines) on Jul 17, 2017 at 3:29pm PDT

It took us a while to figure out the perfect drumroll but wait for it... Remember to tune in to the @todayshow at 8:15am in every time zone for Chip’s (drumroll please) book cover reveal! #capitalgaines #bighairdontcare

A post shared by Joanna Stevens Gaines (@joannagaines) on Jul 17, 2017 at 4:29pm PDT

And then, they revealed the choice, which fans actually voted against, Chip admitted. He told the Today show Tuesday morning that the one he ended up picking "lost by, like, a huge margin."

Chip noted that even though the cover lost, he felt it was the best refection of who he really is:

"But it was one of those times where I said, 'You know, I'm writing a book, I really wanted it to be about me and the expression that I wanted to capture,' and that was one of these sort of ad-lib moments that happen at the farm. It just happened at the blink of an eye, and of all the photos, all the staged photos and the big set photos, that one kept jumping off the page to me."

According to a press release, the book, which comes out in October and is available for pre-order on Amazon, details "some of his craziest antics and the lessons learned along the way." Before he hit the big time on HGTV, Chip was a serial entrepreneur who kept trying-and failing-at new ventures. So the book will detail all the "stupid stuff" that helped him get where he is today. (But perhaps it won't talk about his controversial new man bun.)

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