The Results of the Cover Design Contest!

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Good morning! As many of you are aware, I’m embarking on a formal re-launch of Masters and Beginners (prior to releasing Volume 2 later this year), through a new printer/distributor, and with a new cover. And many of you helped me spread the word about the contest I was hosting to determine how to go about the new cover part (thank you!). So now we’re past the decision-making process (which was not easy, I can tell you), and onto announcing the results!

After receiving some truly wonderful artwork, I had to figure out which submission best captured the tone I’m hoping to strike for particularly Volume 1, but also Volumes 1-4 in general. So, I know you’re all on tenderhooks — now I present to you the new cover reveal…

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(Cue the oohing and ahhing.) This new design is courtesy of “The” Kyle Robert Shultz, who writes the extremely funny and touching Beaumont and Beasley fantasy series. (It’s too early here for searching up links — sorry, folks — but you can find Kyle Shultz on Goodreads and Twitter and he has an author’s website that includes a blog.)

I’m hoping to have the re-release available to all my minions — I mean, to all interested readers in the near future. Watch this space for future announcements on that front!

In other, related news — I was so very impressed with other submissions I received (and I have a habit of thinking about several projects at once) that I’ve also chosen two other artists to create covers for the “supplemental” materials that will be accompanying the “canon” series.

Those submissions are shown here:

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Once again, thank you to everyone who is participating in this venture, and I am very grateful to have all this interest expressed! I’m so looking forward to seeing what lovely creations will later come to fruition!

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