More 2010 DSAC Entries
I haven’t been updating the website so frequently lately because I’ve been making really good progress on The Daylight War, the book that will follow The Desert Spear in the Demon Cycle. Still, the deadline for the next giveaway in the Desert Spear ARC Contest (DSAC), January 15, is soon to be upon us. I will be giving away another ARC and some other prizes to lucky entrants, and then setting a date for the next giveaway. The entries were starting to pile up, so let’s have a quick review of what’s come in over the last week or so, starting with Mike G, who didn’t give his address:
Firstly… read and loved your first book. Ok that is taken care of.
Secondly… I started reading your blog even before reading The Warded Man, and got a real giggle when I saw your post about the first year of your daughter in photos as I also have a daughter of approximately the same age (July 2008) and have many photos of her in similar poses as you have with your little one
Okay, down to business… My entry… oddly focused on my daughter! 🙂
First picture of her investigating the book… Getting ready for her first fantasy novel
Second picture… disappointment… No pictures. Just blank paper… Hopefully it gets better than this!
Next up are another couple of live-action entries from Emily in Australia:
I went to Melbourne a little while ago and brought the Painted man with me 😛
I’m standing on one of the bridges that goes over the Yarra River. In the background is the big ferris wheel. Theres the MCG, where (beacuse I do not like cricket) we go and scream at Geelong to win the footy. And then there is the white bridge behind me, which is the white bridge that is in Ghostrider. I felt like this would be a good photo because I mean, come on, Nicholas Cage stood on that bridge.
A couple of entries also came in from Elena in St. Petersburg Russia, who won the Great Bazaar Fan Art Contest, and even references Arlen’s adventure in that book in one of her captions:
Due to bad weather it is almost impossible to take photos in SPB, Little illustration, what is going on the streets) yeap, my car is still somewhere Out There…. snow,snow, endless snow.
End of december I spent in Moscow, (situation there is even worst) but Painted man traveled with me during all my trips between capitals of Russia and some baltic capitals, therefore I have a couple of interesting photos from Tallinn.
With 46 towers, medieval Tallinn was known as one of the most fortified burgs in all Northern Europe, here I am inside Old Town city wall, in search of wards, like Arlen in Baha kad’Everam (hard to chose another ancient place like this, where history become every day life):
And another photo, trying wards against snow demon))) look, its working)) very effective)))
After Elena’s entries came two more from 2-time prizewinner Dwayne from the UK, who tapped into the Power of Grayskull this time, and gave in to the endless temptations of Photoshop with two badass additions to the contest:
Just a couple more pictures, I decided to take after my 3rd viewing of avatar. In the first one, I am fighting off Corelings trying to take my book of wards, yes I am using swords and have noticed that noone in your novel actually uses swords (was wondering about that actually) sorry for the error.
And in the second one, I am a Na’vi fighting to protect my home and my book lol.
Also leaping into the fray is Lisa W from the UK, who sent in two great entries:
I’m so very glad I picked up Painted Man in the library a month or two back now. I actually got the book for Christmas! One is a few snaps using my webcam – I usually have my nose in a book and ignore the outside world, so it seemed to fit.
I’m afraid I don’t have anything from an exotic location, from spending most of my time at the moment at the computer working on my dissertation. Instead, I took the book with me when I walked into town with my brother and mum this week. I may not have travelled far, but it looks strange to me, as we usually don’t get any snow! In any case, I thought a bonus point or two for having the church and some of the older parts of the high street in the background, and general winter-festivness. The church was founded in 1220 (yes, I just checked on Wikipedia) and some of the buildings along the right from about 1400 or 1500, or a bit later. Not totally creative, I admit, but worth a try.
This last picture is really beautiful, with the blue and pink hues on the snow and old feel of the High Street. But Lisa, the sun is setting! Get inside before the corelings start to rise!
I hope between September 2 and 6 2010 to participate in a reenactment of the Yarra River bridge photographs with the Creator.
A topic we should discuss in the very near future.
I actually remember that scene from Ghostrider. Might be the only scene I remember from the entire film.