Judging book by cover?

I agonized over how to present my work to the Cloth Paper Scissors editors before I packed it to mail it off. I ended up "re-imagining" some of those brown kraft expanding office folders. I put a strip of mat board in the bottom of the two smaller ones to hold them open, then scored and trimmed the flaps to make fold-overs with punched holes and ties. The larger one was done the same basic way, but the iPad cover was too large for flaps, so I skewered it with some bamboo toothpicks.
If *I* were the judge, I'd choose *me* based on the creative packages alone - - too bad I'm not!