Sep 26, 2016

NAME THAT HERO!

It’s contest time, fans and friends. Time to put your name up in lights!

But first, a little housework.

• If you have not joined Beneath White Clouds’ Facebook page, you should! It’s a good spot to catch more news and pick up posts to share out to your own feeds, so you can help raise awareness and get this book to publication!
• Voting on cover art continues! There are 4 to choose from, and right now the Classic Split-World cover is in a clear lead. If you haven’t voted, cast that ballot. If you have... do it again! Fun fact: you can vote as many times as you want. Stuff that ballot box!

Now onto the juicy story! I’m going to re-name George after one of you! Yep, there are two protagonists in this tale, and one of you gets to be him/her. I can’t take this to the presses with the guy named George. If you can’t guess why, you’re too young. Let’s just say that the name “George” is just a little too close to the mark. So I’m going to rename him after one of you.*

How?

Anyone to place a super-reader order (3+copies ordered) by Sunday, Oct 2nd (by midnight pacific time), will have their names put into a randomization engine (which may or may not be a hat). One of the lucky ones will be selected to have George re—named after them.

Now you might wonder, “What if the winner’s name is totally feminine, like Samantha or Kisha or something?”

Well, then, it’ll be time for a social experiment of sorts. George is written as a male. If I end up with a feminine name for him, then he’ll go "under the knife", so to speak.

I’ll change all pronouns and references to match his new gender, and might have to adapt a few gags, but otherwise I’ll leave his/her character, dialogue, behavior all the same.

That’ll be interesting to see, won’t it? Get those orders in - all supporters will be acknowledged in the book, but only one of you will get to be this guy:

I mean, srsly, who wouldn’t want to be that guy? Looks like one happenin’ dude right there. Guy’s got it going on.

*:  If you win, and your name happens to be George, we’ll figure something out. Re-name George after your Mom or Goldfish or something.