I’m not going to lie: I’m kind of a sucker for art and gratification, in equal measure. For that reason, it’s been a long-standing tradition of mine to announce fan art contests periodically.
And since The City Stained Red will be debuting soon, now seemed like a perfect time TO DO EXACTLY THAT.
RULES:
1. Submit a visual representation (illustration, cosplay, whatever you feel) of your favorite part from The Aeons’ Gate series or anything else I’ve worked on
2. Send it to me via the Contact Form here.
3. Make sure it gets in before Thanksgiving of 2014!
4. Eat your vegetables.
5. That’s it!
PRIZES:
Runner Up Prizes: All entrants will receive Four (4) (IV) signed bookplates! You can stick ’em in your books and that will be my signature! You could ostensibly have something by Hemingway signed by me! I don’t judge.
Second Place Prizes (3): Four Bookplates and a signed copy of Flesh and Blood, Steel and Gold, the comic prelude to The City Stained Red as illustrated by the fabulous Ashley Cope.
First Place (1): A signed ARC of The City Stained Red, a copy of the comic and four bookplates! Hooray!
GRAND PRIZE: Everything you see above and A SCENTED CANDLE! IT’LL SMELL GREAT. JESUS CHRIST, YOU WANT IT.
Ideally, the deadline to this will be Thanksgiving 2014, but I’m pretty lenient. If you’ve got something brilliant that needs more time, just pop it in the email around then. I’m sure I’ll find it and reward you handsomely.
This is one of my favorite things to do. I love that my readers are always intensely creative and I love that I can resonate enough with them to inspire them to NEW HEIGHTS of majesty. I eagerly look forward to what you guys can come up with.
Now, go forth and rock my sensibilities.