Hear ye, hear ye! I officially declare the Great Contest of Covers open for entries!!
“Goodness, what are you babbling about now?”
Why, the Great Contest of Covers, of course. A weekly contest butting book cover against book cover for cover supremacy!
“How does is all work? Will there be blood?”
Of course there will be blood! Figurative, metaphorical blood everywhere! Each week, two covers will be put on display, and you, the good public of the Kingdom of Blogsphere, will vote on which should win glory and honour, and which would be shot full of arrows and sacrificed to the Demon Trilogy, Dog-Earred-Pages, Stained-Covers, and Cracked-Spines!
“I’m liking the sound of this!”
Of course you are.
“What are the first two covers to do battle?”
Unknown. The people must bring forth champions to enter the contest and wage war on one another.
“So, we nominate our favourite book covers?”
Yeah.
“This sounds great, but what’s with the weird medieval speak?”
It’s…. fun?
“How long will nominations be open?”
A fortnight, my good lady/sir. At which point, this loyal bard will—
“Fortnite? That game that kids think invented dancing?”
*sigh*
• Submit nominations over the next two weeks (April 23 – May 7).
• You can do so via comments on this blog, twitter, and instagram.
• Voting on each match-up will be handled the same way each week.
• It will be bracket/single-elimination style.
• First round will start with 16 covers (maybe 32 depending on the amount of nominations)
“There. Wasn’t that way easier than trying to talk all like a knight or whatever?”
whatever
Round 1 starts May 10th! See you there!
Nominating the UK cover of Nevernight by Jay Kristoff. I love that you can see bits of the story in the illustration. 💕
Nice one!
I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS POST!
Pretty cool ‘knight speech’. Lol
Lol. Thanks?
You should nominate a book cover while you’re here…
Doesn’t have to be just this year right?
Nope! Of all time.
Well… Jackaby by William Ritter for an edgier book.
But my old softie heart still loves Charlee and the chocolate shop by Jessica Redland
This is gunna be a long one…. I had time to browse my Goodreads and I have for you a HUGE list of fav covers :]
Hot Dog Girl – Jennifer Dugan
Opposite of Always – Justin A Reynolds
Hurricane Season – Nicole Melleby
A Curse So Dark and Lonely – Brigid Kemmerer
Ogre Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
Pride – Ibi Zoboi
The Wicked Deep – Shea Ernshaw
The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
Four Dead Queens
the entire Winternight Trilogy
the NEW Harry Potter covers by Brian Selznick
speaking of Selznick….The Marvels
the original US covers of Harry Potter
the ILLUSTRATED covers of the first four Harry Potter books….I am sensing a pattern, better switch gears…
Salt to the Sea – Ruta Sepetys
Toil and Trouble
….I just realized that clearly I really like people on my covers…mostly illustrated people but people nonetheless…such an unpopular opinion.
Wow. That is a lot of nominations!
Told you it was a huge list…
And you don’t have to use them all! I just…wanted to help out? Also I love book covers… soooooo
Nope. I appreciate it!
Oh good haha :]
Oooh… I’ll have to send you some more too then! 😉
Just saw this one. I’m half getting it just because of the cover. Lol.
The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi