{"id":16840,"date":"2013-01-12T07:36:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T12:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=16840"},"modified":"2013-01-12T08:06:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T13:06:51","slug":"the-qwillery-debut-author-cover-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/01\/12\/the-qwillery-debut-author-cover-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Qwillery Debut Author Cover Battle!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The end of the year came and I’m happy as hell that\u00a0Blackbirds<\/strong><\/span><\/a> made it onto a bunch of best of lists, but I’m just as happy that the\u00a0cover<\/em> made it onto so many lists, too — the Joey Hi-fi cover, in my mind, deserves all the kudos it can get. It’s a cover that far outshines the novel I wrote and I am eager to be its champion.<\/p>\n

So, forgive the intrusion, but we’ve one more battle left to fight.<\/p>\n

The Qwillery Battle debut author cover challenge<\/strong><\/span><\/a> ends at the end of the day (11:59pm). It’s been a two-week battle, a fierce and snarling challenge between\u00a0Blackbirds<\/strong> and another ass-kicking Angry Robot book, Chris Holm’s\u00a0Dead Harvest<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dead Harvest<\/strong> is, of course, a cover deserving of its laurels — it’s a stellar emblem of how a great cover designer can do something that conjures old elements (in this case, those of pulp novels) and executes in a fresh way. (That cover is designed by studio Amazing15<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Further, Chris Holm is a writer of immense talent. You should be reading him.<\/p>\n

Just the same, I once more cannot let the challenge go by without giving it my all.<\/p>\n

I mean,\u00a0ye gods<\/em>, look at that\u00a0Blackbirds\u00a0<\/strong>cover. Look at it. I SAID LOOK AT IT.<\/p>\n

Take at least two hours to just stare at it. I’m happy to duct tape your face to the monitor.<\/p>\n

You know, if it helps.<\/p>\n

It’s a beautiful cover! A staggering piece of starkly-painted art! My jaw drops every time I see it.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

Right now,\u00a0Blackbirds<\/strong> is down, folks. The tick-tock of the clock reminds us that the battle will\u00a0soon be over<\/em>. Go! Hurry! Vote! Vote for your favorite cover which may or may not be\u00a0Blackbirds<\/strong> but if it is\u00a0Blackbirds<\/strong> then we shall cross a meadow in slow-motion with giddy looks on our faces and when when we get close to one another we will leap into the air toward one another and\u00a0freeze-frame\u00a0high-five<\/em> as the credits roll over us.<\/p>\n

Or something.<\/p>\n

What I’m saying is, I appreciate your patience in me yammering on about stuff like this.<\/p>\n

And I’d appreciate your vote.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to go to the challenge.<\/p>\n

*freeze-frame high-five*<\/p>\n

*credits roll*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The end of the year came and I’m happy as hell that\u00a0Blackbirds made it onto a bunch of best of lists, but I’m just as happy that the\u00a0cover made it onto so many lists, too — the Joey Hi-fi cover, in my mind, deserves all the kudos it can get. It’s a cover that far […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-4nC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16840"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16850,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16840\/revisions\/16850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}