TPOTS Create Your Own Cover Contest Winners!
This is Ellen’s assistant Katharine, back to announce the winner of our TPOTS Create Your Own Cover Contest, while Ellen nurses a head cold and gloats over all the art.
I’m glad to see that my rallying cry of “Lace! Leather! Silk and steel!” inspired so many of you to design your own covers for The Privilege of the Sword (aka TPOTS, which Ellen really does pronounce "teapots!") in honor of the release of the new audiobook, and I loved seeing the different covers that came in, from photos to drawings to digital collages. (You can see all the entries as links in the Comments section of the original Contest post here.)
Thank you to everyone who entered the contest for the time and hard work you put into your designs. Both Ellen and I were impressed by the high quality and originality of the entries, and judging so many excellent covers was no easy feat. That is why, in addition to our Grand Prize winner, Ellen has selected two second-place winners, whose art you can see below.
We are thrilled to announce that the Grand Prize winner of the TPOTS Create Your Own Cover contest is…
Taline Boghosian!
Ellen and I were blown away by Taline's exquisite design and thoughtful layout of the cover, which is for a hardcover with both front, back and side flaps. You can find more of Taline’s work here. In addition to receiving a limited edition copy of The Privilege of the Sword from Small Beer Press, Taline will have her art displayed on the official TPOTS Covers page. We'll announce it when the art goes up, so check back for that post!
And now for our two second-place winners, who will also receive a hardcover copy of The Privilege of the Sword. Well, one of them will, anyway-because one of our two winners, Elizabeth Evans-Gist (underthewetmoon), was already, by chance, the winner of our "What's your favorite imaginary book?" contest and has a copy of TPOTS on the way!
Here's Liz's subtle and elegant cover:
Tied with Liz for second place, we have this terrific cover art and design from vaultedthewall:
We were especially impressed with the WIP posts she did as she worked on this cover; you can see them here on her Tumblr. She also managed to get all our favorite characters in.
Congratulations to our winners, and thank you again to everyone who entered!!! Even if you didn't win, you can still perfectly legitimately acquire your own limited edition copy of The Privilege of the Sword here (at a discounted rate) - and/or download the new TPOTS audiobook, narrated by Ellen herself (with a little help from the great Barbara Rosenblat & a cast that includes Felicia Day and Joe Hurley) from Neil Gaiman Presents.
We loved each and every entry, and all the enthusiasm everyone has so kindly shown over the launch of the TPOTS audiobook.
I think it's time to lock Ellen in a tower and make her write another novel, now, don't you?
She says she has to finish recording The Fall of the Kings first. But I dunno . . . .