If you haven't entered already, you should! Free t-shirts and book money are hard to come by, after all.
The rules are located here. Read them, do some drawing, and enter!
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Showing posts with label Contests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Contests. Show all posts
Thursday, January 05, 2012
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
2011 Holiday Logo Design Contest!
If the title doesn't entice you, then maybe this will:
The lovely folks at ooShirts, a Bay Area independent shirt company, has offered a few t-shirts to us for The World in the Satin Bag and The Skiffy and Fanty Show. Rather than shoving our logos on the shirts and enjoying them by ourselves, we thought we'd give folks a shot at a t-shirt of their own!
Here's how it will work:
We want a new logo design for The World in the Satin Bag and The Skiffy and Fanty Show that reflects the content or feel of the sites in some way. Roughly translated, that means we have no clear rules whatsoever, in part because we are artistically handicapped. The designs should look nice (obviously) and it should have something to do with the sites, but we are more interested in seeing what you come up with than bogging down the artistic process with rules and rigid desires.
These will break down into two contests: one for The World in the Satin Bag and one for The Skiffy and Fanty Show. And you can enter both.
What you get if you win:
The lovely folks at ooShirts, a Bay Area independent shirt company, has offered a few t-shirts to us for The World in the Satin Bag and The Skiffy and Fanty Show. Rather than shoving our logos on the shirts and enjoying them by ourselves, we thought we'd give folks a shot at a t-shirt of their own!
Here's how it will work:
We want a new logo design for The World in the Satin Bag and The Skiffy and Fanty Show that reflects the content or feel of the sites in some way. Roughly translated, that means we have no clear rules whatsoever, in part because we are artistically handicapped. The designs should look nice (obviously) and it should have something to do with the sites, but we are more interested in seeing what you come up with than bogging down the artistic process with rules and rigid desires.
These will break down into two contests: one for The World in the Satin Bag and one for The Skiffy and Fanty Show. And you can enter both.
What you get if you win:
- The two winning logos will receive a t-shirt with their winning logo on the front.
- Free books -- winners will receive a $10 gift certificate to their preferred online bookstore AND a choice of a selection of books to be announced later.
- A bio and thanks in the About sections of both sites (because you're awesome and we love you)
The Rules:
- High quality images (so that we can adjust, shrink, and move the images without worrying about all those shrinkage issues)
- Images must be submitted by 11:59 PM on January 8th, 2011 to skiffyandfanty[at]gmail[dot]com. The winner will be announced the following week.
- Original work only.
- By submitting your images to this contest, you are not giving us ownership of your stuff. You grant us the right to show the logo and use it on our website and materials we purchase only for ourselves (i.e., business cards, shirts for us to wear at conventions, etc., but not stuff we buy for friends and the like). Any sale of your logo by us will have to be agreed upon at another time. If you want to donate the logo(s) to us, that would be awesome, but we're not in the business of taking work from people without compensation unless they've offered it. Should we become interested in selling the shirts with your logo, we'll contact you to talk about royalties.
A little about ooShirts:
While I'd love to reproduce their story here, I think you'd better read it for yourself. They've got a great story behind them, and a great company philosophy. We wish them the best of success (not because they're a Cali company, because we're totally not that biased...).
Have it it, logo designers!
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Jason Sanford, Interzone, and a Contest
Recently Jason Sanford has opened up a contest to celebrate the publication of one his stories in Interzone. Basically: help spread the word about his story and Interzone and you could win a free one year subscription to the magazine. Sweet deal, right?
Well, that's what I'm doing. If you want to participate, go here and read the "rules".
One of the things that is cool about this contest is that you get a free copy of Sanford's new story--"The Ships Like Clouds, Risen By Their Rain". While I haven't gotten a chance to read it just yet, I'm looking forward to it. I spent a week in England in March of this year and one of the things I had hoped to find while there was an issue of Interzone and some other British magazines. I came back home empty handed, unfortunately, but I still want to read Interzone. The problem has always been that in comparison to magazines printed in the states, Interzone is extremely expensive--for obvious reasons. I still want to get a subscription to it, but it's a little pricey for me, unfortunately--I've asked for it as a Christmas gift though.
If you want to know more about Interzone's history, check their about page. They've published a lot of amazing authors like Elizabeth Bear, Brian Aldiss, and Iain M. Banks. The about page has a whole list of great authors they've published. Interzone is to England what Analog, F&SF, and Asimov's are to the United States.
So you can see why I jumped on this opportunity. I'll read Mr. Sanford's story pretty soon and post again when I'm finished with a review. But this is it for now. Good luck to anyone else who decides to enter!
(Don't click the read more, there isn't any more after this!)
Well, that's what I'm doing. If you want to participate, go here and read the "rules".
One of the things that is cool about this contest is that you get a free copy of Sanford's new story--"The Ships Like Clouds, Risen By Their Rain". While I haven't gotten a chance to read it just yet, I'm looking forward to it. I spent a week in England in March of this year and one of the things I had hoped to find while there was an issue of Interzone and some other British magazines. I came back home empty handed, unfortunately, but I still want to read Interzone. The problem has always been that in comparison to magazines printed in the states, Interzone is extremely expensive--for obvious reasons. I still want to get a subscription to it, but it's a little pricey for me, unfortunately--I've asked for it as a Christmas gift though.
If you want to know more about Interzone's history, check their about page. They've published a lot of amazing authors like Elizabeth Bear, Brian Aldiss, and Iain M. Banks. The about page has a whole list of great authors they've published. Interzone is to England what Analog, F&SF, and Asimov's are to the United States.
So you can see why I jumped on this opportunity. I'll read Mr. Sanford's story pretty soon and post again when I'm finished with a review. But this is it for now. Good luck to anyone else who decides to enter!
(Don't click the read more, there isn't any more after this!)
Friday, December 28, 2007
SoD Contest: You Decide Something
Well, I mentioned I was going to have a contest.
What you have to do:
Create a character, place, thing, creature, etc. that you think should be in the world of Dern. That's right. You get to actually create something and if you win, I'll use it!
Some information about Dern, though, to help you stick within the continent.
Dern is a new continent I'm creating for the World in the Satin Bag, which becomes, at some point, a centerpiece for The Spellweaver of Dern, which is the second book that I'm going to hopefully start writing in January. Dern is going to be somewhat similar to a colonial England or America. There will be gunpowder, a lot of sailing and ships, etc. There will be differences, of course, but I'm shooting for that sort of feel. I'm not looking for it to be authentic colonial England or America, but to have little tinges of both. Given that, there will be new critters, races, etc. Humans will still be there, but I will be including a lot of fantasy elements, new magic, and the like, only all within this colonial, muskets and gunpowder and big-gun ship world.
So, invent something that will go there. It could be a tower, a person, a creature, a thing, even a magic style, etc. The skies the limit. Just don't invent machine guns and nuclear bombs. This is still very much an old, slightly industrial world where such things wouldn't exist.
(Yes, I know that in WISB there were ships that had cannons. I have an answer for that and it's something that fits into the continent of Traea)
Here are the rules:
A $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com! Or something of equal value (which translates to books)
If you win, you will be given credit for the idea. If the Satin Bag books ever end up in print or in some other media form, you will be credited.
That's it! So, start thinking!
What you have to do:
Create a character, place, thing, creature, etc. that you think should be in the world of Dern. That's right. You get to actually create something and if you win, I'll use it!
Some information about Dern, though, to help you stick within the continent.
Dern is a new continent I'm creating for the World in the Satin Bag, which becomes, at some point, a centerpiece for The Spellweaver of Dern, which is the second book that I'm going to hopefully start writing in January. Dern is going to be somewhat similar to a colonial England or America. There will be gunpowder, a lot of sailing and ships, etc. There will be differences, of course, but I'm shooting for that sort of feel. I'm not looking for it to be authentic colonial England or America, but to have little tinges of both. Given that, there will be new critters, races, etc. Humans will still be there, but I will be including a lot of fantasy elements, new magic, and the like, only all within this colonial, muskets and gunpowder and big-gun ship world.
So, invent something that will go there. It could be a tower, a person, a creature, a thing, even a magic style, etc. The skies the limit. Just don't invent machine guns and nuclear bombs. This is still very much an old, slightly industrial world where such things wouldn't exist.
(Yes, I know that in WISB there were ships that had cannons. I have an answer for that and it's something that fits into the continent of Traea)
Here are the rules:
- Anyone can enter.
- You can be of any age.
- One entry per person.
- You must use the comments feature and choose your name as anonymous. The reason for this is so there is no chance of there being a personal bias at all. I want this to be fair. Just remember what you wrote.
- Check your spelling and grammar. You don't need to be perfect, but if you write in text speech I'll just toss your entry out. I need to be able to read it. Hopefully that's not unreasonable.
- Be specific, but not too specific. Don't go off and write every single little itty bitty detail about whatever it is you're entering with. If you create a place, say a special building, just talk about the building, not the city it is in, or its location. I want to be able to integrate what you create into the story properly.
- By entering you are agreeing to let me use your idea for the Satin Bag books (however many there may be). I won't use them for another unrelated story without your permission, but you are basically saying I can have the idea. This also is why I don't want you being too specific. You're basically giving up copyright on the idea and you are agreeing to that by entering.
- Contest ends January 5th, 2008, at 12:01 AM, Pacific Time. Why? So I can actually look at the entries and pick a winner. Winter quarter opens up on the 3rd, so I don't want to get bogged down in the middle of the quarter if I'll be writing SoD and a dozen other projects.
A $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com! Or something of equal value (which translates to books)
If you win, you will be given credit for the idea. If the Satin Bag books ever end up in print or in some other media form, you will be credited.
That's it! So, start thinking!
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