{"id":679,"date":"2011-12-05T17:35:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T01:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=679"},"modified":"2011-12-05T17:35:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T01:35:04","slug":"mark-reads-breaking-dawn-help-design-mrhp-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2011\/12\/mark-reads-breaking-dawn-help-design-mrhp-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads Breaking Dawn \/ Help Design MRHP Covers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OH HELL YES. Do y&#8217;all realize what this means? Mark this date on your calendars: DECEMBER 5TH, 2011 WAS THE DAY MARK FINISHED HIS LAST <em>TWILIGHT<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0BOOK AND WILL NEVER HAVE TO READ THESE BOOKS EVER AGAIN. I hear angels singing someone. And that means MORE <em>HARRY POTTER<\/em>!!!!!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->First things first: <a href=\"http:\/\/markdoesstuff.com\/products\" target=\"_blank\">BUY MY NEW BOOK!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mrbdfinal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-680\" title=\"mrbdfinal\" src=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mrbdfinal-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mrbdfinal-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mrbdfinal-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mrbdfinal.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Reads <em>Breaking Dawn<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0is the final eBook in the Mark Reads <em>Twilight<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0series, and it&#8217;s got 144 pages of mind-fuckery, wank, and the slow degradation of my mind over the course of thirty-eight chapters and an epilogue. I&#8217;ve heard that every time you buy this book, fourteen French bulldogs appear outside your door, awaiting a cuddle party. Don&#8217;t take my word for it; just buy the book and you&#8217;ll see this is true.<\/p>\n<p>The book is available in PDF, Kindle, and ePub (Nook, iBook) format for just <strong>$2.99<\/strong>. What does this money go towards, you ask?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>General upkeep of Mark Reads and Mark Watches. (Unlimited bandwidth ain&#8217;t cheap, y&#8217;all, and we need LOTS of it around here.)<\/li>\n<li>Funding for the Mark Does Stuff Tour of 2012. I am still finalizing dates, but folks on the east coast should get hella stoked soon. YOU SHOULD.<\/li>\n<li>Future projects! One of which I will discuss in a bit!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am inching ever close to being able to support myself off of eBook sales and Google AdSense payments, but I&#8217;m still not quite there. Any help you can give me is appreciated; I would love to be able to do this full-time and run multiple series at once, as well as host more special events. Thank you in advance! Which brings me to the best thing ever:<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>MARK READS HARRY POTTER BOOKS!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The time has come for me to convert all seven books into an eBook format, as I&#8217;ve done with Mark Reads <em>Twilight<\/em>, but this is not going to be an easy process. I have decided that these books deserve a very special treatment, and that&#8217;s going to be rather time-consuming on a lot of fronts. First and foremost, <strong>all seven of these eBooks will include adapted reviews in a book format AND a complete re-read of the series<\/strong>. I want these books to be the very best digital books imaginable, so I thought it would be fun to include the original reviews, and then a brand new set of reviews with the re-reads of them. TWO BOOKS IN ONE BOOK oh god can any of you handle this shit.<\/p>\n<p>In the next week, I will be handpicking my new batch of editors for the Mark Reads <em>Harry Potter<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0series and working through the manuscript for <em>Mark Reads Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets<\/em>. I expect to have the first book done by Christmas time SO IT&#8217;S LIKE I&#8217;M SANTA CLAUS OR SOMETHING.<\/p>\n<p>But I really want these books to amazing, so I&#8217;d like to formally announce the very first Mark Reads contest, and it&#8217;s a doozy!<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MAKE THE COVERS FOR THESE BOOKS AND GET PAID TO DO SO<br \/>\nthe very best contest of 2011<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Dear wonderful artists of the <em>Harry Potter<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0community: I want the covers for these eBooks to make people do this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/1726009-shut_up_and_take_my_money_super.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-681\" title=\"1726009-shut_up_and_take_my_money_super\" src=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/1726009-shut_up_and_take_my_money_super.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/1726009-shut_up_and_take_my_money_super.jpg 500w, http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/1726009-shut_up_and_take_my_money_super-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But I am not <em>generally<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0a fan of crowdsourcing this stuff for &#8220;recognition&#8221; or &#8220;bragging rights&#8221; because let&#8217;s get real here: that shit doesn&#8217;t buy vegan Twinkies, does it? (I found a place here in San Francisco that makes them. I can&#8217;t even deal. They are fucking criminal.)<\/p>\n<p>So, ready for this?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Produce a general idea\/template\/sketch\/rough draft for what you think the covers for the\u00c2\u00a0<em>Mark Reads Harry Potter<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0series of eBooks should look like<\/strong>. You do not need to complete all seven; you are welcome to provide the first one as an example of the style you want to go for. Keep in mind that I&#8217;d prefer all seven had some stylistic component in common; otherwise, let your creativity wander! Again, <strong>you do not need to come up with the designs for all seven<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Email your submission to markreadsandwatches [at] gmail [dot] com<\/strong>. Feel free to defend\/sell\/write a dissertation to explain anything. I&#8217;m totally down to read any contextual info you want to provide.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do so by Wednesday, December 21st, 11:59pm PST.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Sixteen days is enough time, yes?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sit back and feel good about being awesome<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What will the winner get?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>I will use your covers for all seven books<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Every <em>Harry Potter <\/em>fan will think you are like Luna&#8217;s best friend or something.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Oh, and I&#8217;ll give you $100 for EACH cover. Yes, that&#8217;s $700 total, but $100 payable each time within 24 hours of each book being released. <\/strong>(And the only reason I have this stipulation is because I once paid a designer to do the themes for both my sites, gave them money to do it, and then they disappeared forever. You&#8217;ll get the money for them, but only after each one is published.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>I&#8217;ll probably high five you a bunch of times.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Internet fame<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For those submitting art: No one will <em>ever<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0see your submissions, and they do not belong to me. I will not ever use them for anything ever unless I choose you as the winner, and then we can draw up a contract if you so please to commission the covers from you.<\/p>\n<p>I AM SO EXCITED TO START DOING THESE. Editing\/writing will be so much easier BECAUSE I WILL ACTUALLY LIKE THE SOURCE MATERIAL. Plus, it&#8217;ll be fantastic to re-visit the books and commit to <em>actually<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0doing the re-reads. I expect these books to be at least double the size as the <em>Twilight<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0ones, so they may be a couple dollars more. But I&#8217;ve already seen them pirated online and if you can&#8217;t afford them, I don&#8217;t care if people pass them about. I&#8217;m just happy that people LIKE MY WORDS.<\/p>\n<p>One last note: To all my LeakyCon friends who gave me your email addresses, I still have them, and all of you wonderful people who saw my panel will still get your super mega awesome gifts. PROMISE. And the first one is coming soon!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all for the support and OH MY GOD HARRY POTTER YES THIS IS A VICTORY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OH HELL YES. Do y&#8217;all realize what this means? Mark this date on your calendars: DECEMBER 5TH, 2011 WAS THE DAY MARK FINISHED HIS LAST TWILIGHT\u00c2\u00a0BOOK AND WILL NEVER HAVE TO READ THESE BOOKS EVER AGAIN. 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