Calling All Graphic Artists!

Yes, calling all graphic artists! Have I got a deal for you!

I'm looking for artists who'd be willing to take a shot at depicting the IN HER NAME universe and the Kreelans, in particular. If you think of this as an audition, I'm looking for an artist who can capture the vision from the books in visual form. And the "prize"? Hopefully a long-term professional relationship with you creating the art for the book covers, web site, promotional materials, and even such wild ideas as an illustrated novel or coffee table art book. You get the idea.

And yes, the artist(s?) that "wins" the audition will be paid for their work on what I hope will be a competitive and reasonable basis, which we'll negotiate/discuss with the artist or artists whose work we want to go with.

Right now I'm going to be in the market for someone to do a minimum of four (and perhaps as many as seven) more IN HER NAME covers (and I may decide to revise the covers on the existing six books). There will also be other books not in that series coming down the road, and additional opportunities like those I mentioned above.

So, here's the deal if you'd like to give it a whirl:

Grab a free ebook copy of IN HER NAME: EMPIRE and read it, focusing your attention on how the Kreelans and their world appear. In particular, read closely about the character Tesh-Dar, who's sort of the ultimate Kreelan warrior. I'm not going to try and give anybody anecdotal descriptions of her – I want you to picture her in your mind's eye from what you read and draw what you see. I'd also like a concept of a cityscape or planetscape of the Homeworld or Empress Moon.
When you've got your concept ready to show, contact me and I'll send you an email address for you to send the image(s) to. Sorry to not include an email address here, but that always attracts the spambots…
I'm going to set 31 July as the closing date for the "audition" – that's when we'll take a look at the submissions and make our decision, then get in touch with everybody. I figure we'll also maybe have an open house sort of thing on my Facebook page, if that's okay with the submitting artists.

And that's basically it. So, if you're a graphic artist (or you know someone who might be interested – feel free to send this on!) interested in making what I hope will be good money for you and good artwork for my books, download EMPIRE and start getting those visual images in your head!