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Another awesome entry in the Warding Contest, this one from Aussie Lauren, hereafter known as Lauren Down Under, who despite her obvious affinity for warding and immense creativity, is not to be confused with Lauren K. Cannon, ward artist extraordinaire and co-judge of the contest.

Take it away, Lauren:

Hi Peat,

Here’s my entry for the Warding Contest. I decided to ward a leather journal based on what I imagined Arlen’s messenger journal would be like, complete with faux blood, gore & travel stains!

Hope you like it 🙂

With much fan-girl adoration,

Lauren

That’s all for now. I am off to Baltimore tomorrow at dawn for Balticon, followed by some impromptu signings in Maryland and DC. I’ll be back Tuesday.

I did get my iPad today, though, and am interested to see how well I can blog from it, so there may be updates over the weekend. Keep sending in those warding entries! They bring immense joy to my soul.

Posted on May 28, 2010 at 12:58 am by PeatB
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Woke up this morning feeling crappy. Not sure if it’s just allergies/exhaustion or a cold coming on, but of course it happens right before I head down to Baltimore for 5 days to attend Balticon.

So I was grumpy, until two awesome things happened. First, my iPad arrived, just in time for the trip, despite the fact that it was not due till Saturday (too late to bring it):

And second, I received an e-mail entry for the Warding Contest from French Jess reminding me why I <3 her.

Hi Peat,

Hope you are well! I’ve seen that you are very busy this days! That’s great!

First I wanted to thank you and Dani for the bookplate! I stuck it in my Desert Spear and it’s just so beautiful! It made my boyfriend jealous!

I’m actually devouring the Desert Spear! I had no time to read in my trip to Corsica, always hiking (under the rain…), so I had to delay the beginning of my reading when I came back home! I’m almost at the end of the first part and GOD it’s good to be back in your world!!! I LOVE it so much! I’ll tell you what I think of the entire book as soon as I finish it 🙂

But I write for another reason! As soon as I saw on your website that another contest had began, I told myself “I HAVE to do something for this one as well”!

I love your contests, it’s always a lot of fun to find ideas and DO things, crazy, or not!

So I had a few ideas for this one, but I must wait until a go back at my parent’s where I got all my stuff to achieve these, so I started to seek more ideas that I can create while I’m here in South France! I was reading the first part of the Desert Spear when I finally had one. I love Inevera’s character, and am fascinated by alagai’s magic, so I decided to try to make my version of alagai hora! So I waited the night, slaughtered some demons, took some bones, and carved them with wards (I don’t have prophecy wards, so I took the Misc wards and the mind ward) and Krasian symbols I invented from Arabic alphabet. And then, all I had to do was close the curtains, light a candle, and cast the bones:

Have a good day!

And expect another message in a few day when I finish the Desert Spear!

Jess

Posted on May 27, 2010 at 2:33 pm by PeatB
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Longtime readers will remember Emily. Or at least, you should. Emily had like 50 entries in the Desert Spear ARC Contest, and has an evil twin. Emily is awesome.

Don’t believe me? Check this shit out:

Hey Peter!

Awesome contest! I decided to paint a mask and my hand and here is the result!

The painting looks awesomely awesome on your site 😀

Emily

Posted on May 26, 2010 at 8:55 pm by PeatB
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Two more entries in the Warding Contest. First up is from Fazz in New York, who took Arlen’s palm ward and put it on his Palm phone. Call it Palm Squared:

Hiya Peter;

Here’s a pic for the warding contest.  Well, OK…I think it’s funny!

-Fazz

The second entry from Nick in Australia is really amazing. I’ll let Nick fill you in himself:

Hi Peat,

Firstly a big THANK YOU,  for sending me a book plate for The Desert Spear all the way down under. It has a place of pride on my bookshelf right beside The Great Bazaar and I ain’t lending them to anyone!

I’ve also attached my entry in your warding competition. A bit of background to it, I am 32 years old and of an age when all my friends are having kids, (we also have our first one on the way). As a gift I have been making name boards for every new born, I had one when I was a child and one of my first memories is learning to spell my name by putting the letters in the right spot on a board similar to these that my uncle made me. So I’ve been doing them for a while now and making them from the recycled timber of my first house.

Your competition gave me the great idea to ward the back of them, and hot of the press and with the stain still drying are my first efforts at carving wards into the timber. I figure that not only will these kids be forever protected from corelings… they’ll also grow up to be Peter V Brett fans.

I’m working on the nursery furniture for my soon to be born first child and I intend to ward every single bit that I make in the same way.

Hope you and your family are well.

Thanks again.

Nick

I have a feeling it’s going to be hard to pick winners in this contest. I may have to add more prizes…

Posted on May 25, 2010 at 2:42 pm by PeatB
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Rowell from the UK shows he has his priorities straight with his entry in the Warding Contest:

Hi Peat and Lauren,

I thought I’d ward my last bottle of beer… Need to protect it from a coreling (see “brother”) that has been materializing through the cracks on the floor inside the house.
Though by the time the coreling materializes later I might have drank this! LOL

May Everam protect you from Nie
Rowell

Posted on May 24, 2010 at 12:39 pm by PeatB
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