Fan Art Contest
I’ve been putting this off for too long. I have a spare advance read copy of The Great Bazaar (on sale in January 2010, limited print run, pre-order now!), and I’ve been meaning to do a fan art contest for some time, but I keep delaying because I worry there won’t be enough entries.
But I am proven wrong time and again as fans the world over send me their art just for the heck of it, like Superfan Iris from Germany, AKA Rainbow Sword, who just sent me another character portrait, this time of Leesha Paper:
Awesome, right? No one has ever drawn Leesha before, and I was delighted to see it. It’s a beautiful portrait.
So I’m done putting it off. Fan Art Contest starts now and will run for one month. The rules are simple:
- Create a piece of fan art. Anything you want. Pen and ink, digital, photography, mock book cover, 3D Poser art, comic strip, jewelry, warded weapon, customized action figure, crayon, etc.
- Send a .jpg of the art to peat@www.petervbrett.com
- Enter as many times as you like
- All submissions must be received by November 15
Winner gets the autographed advance of The Great Bazaar. Two runners up will get signed copies of The Painted/Warded Man. If you read the book in translation, I may even be able to get you a signed book in your native tongue. Winners will be announced on or about American Thanksgiving (Nov. 26).
Unless there is an unexpectedly great deluge, I will be posting entries as they come in, so expect to see them in the coming weeks. I’ll also try to post everything in my website’s Fan Art section.
Good luck to all!
Outstanding! There’s a comic book in here, somewhere . . .
I’m gonna enter this as well, hopefully I stand a chance.
I’ll enter too….but I could as well trow it right away…
I’ve already got my PM fan art somewhere on this site…
Matt, old submissions don’t count. Besides, you already got to read The Great Bazaar (not to mention The Desert Spear) before anyone else.
But if you want a signed book, just come over and take one off the shelf.
I so want to read the desert spear, if there is a comp for that I will take time out of my busy schedule to learn what ever task is required of me to graduate level just to submit. 😀
I think I am a little crazy.
Dwayne, if you want Matt’s first-look status, it’s a piece of cake. All you need to do is be a skilled professional editor who has put in 15 or so years as one of my best friends.
Matt (and a small elite group of others like him) sees things even before my real editors do, so he can point out what sucks in time for me to fix it before submitting to publishers.
He also has a cool blog: http://www.popcultureshock.com/no-cure-for-comics/
No old submissions?
well, that’s okay 😉 i already sent my first entry. and there will be more…
I should stop that.^^
Peat, that seems easy enough. Although I’ll have to move to America and finish my anthropology course. But after that I can train to be and editor and what not lol. I’m not entirely serious, I mean I would love to read the Desert Spear but know I will have to wait, although I am interested in how one becomes a beta reader.
To answer your question Dwayne, sadly, it has become very difficult of late. With all the wonders of the internet have come some real drawbacks, too. It used to be that authors could give their work out to beta readers in hardcopy and never worry that the manuscript would get out, but these days, even hardcopy can quickly end up on the internet.
Case in point, my first book, The Painted Man, was released in September 2008, but the publisher released bound galleys (uncorrected advance copies) a couple of months early. One of those galley recipients (I’ll never know who) broke the spine, scanned all the pages with text recognition, and before the book was even formally released, had it posted for free illegal download on the internet on multiple torrent sites. This was really upsetting to me. As an unknown author, it didn’t really affect my career, but it was a real wake up call.
I spent the last 3 years of my life working on The Desert Spear. Literally thousands of hours. The idea of it getting out illegally before its formal release makes me wake up in cold sweats. as a result, I, and other authors like me, have gotten MUCH more careful about who sees a manuscript in advance. Especially after what happened to Stephenie Meyer: http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/midnightsun.html
In my case, I am so paranoid now that only people who are regular fixtures in my personal life and trusted implicitly have gotten anywhere near it.
I wish it didn’t have to be that way, but like everything else in life, a few assholes can ruin things for everyone.
So true Peat, assholes do ruin everything. As an aspiring novelist myself I would hate for my work to be used abused and splashed all over the internet before it was intended. Although I do post snippets online from time to time.
Its a shame that, that had happened to you and it is fully understandable why you would become paranoid about who you let see your work.
Dwayne — Make the check payable to CASH and I’ll tell you anything you want to know. 🙂
Matt, will $1million be enough. That is 1m Zimbabwean dollars; 😀