Teapot Tales - Vote for our book cover! #ChaBooChaAnth

I am posting all of the submissions I received for the book cover for the fairy tale anthology. It's up to you all to vote on which one you like best. I will not include names with the submissions, so no one can claim "friend voting." (Not that any of you would actually do that!) Also, I am not voting unless we need a tie breaker.

We have until midnight GMT tomorrow night to vote. Vote by stating which one you want as the cover in the comments. Each one will be given a number and you vote for the number you like best. Please ignore any titles in the pieces up for voting as some of these were sent in before we had chosen a title, so people left it as "title" or put a sample title in. Whichever one you choose will have the correct title in the finished product.

#1:

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#2: 

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#3:

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#4:

 

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#5:  

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#6: (This one is a concept cover, not the finished piece.)

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#7:

So there you have it. You have seven covers to vote on and a limited amount of time to do the voting. So get voting! I can't wait to see what the final cover is going to be!

ChaBooCha Fairy Tale Anthology: time to choose a name and a cover #ChaBooChaAnth

photo credit: Fairy Magic Photos

We have an anthology that is slowly approaching it's production date. I'm shooting for a release date of August 1st, but that date is not yet a definite date.

We still have to choose a title for the anthology. We've had a couple of suggestions so far.

"Once" and "Once Upon a Challenge"

If you have other suggestions for titles, go ahead and suggest them in the comments and, sometime in the next few days, I will create a post listing all of the suggestions for your vote, either here or on Facebook.

Now, on to the cover: I know that we have some super creative members of the challenge, so I am going to leave it to a vote. I can probably convince my husband to create a cover to submit, and a few ChaBooCha members have discussed creating covers to submit. We will have the next three weeks to try and create the perfect anthology covers, the kind of covers that will appeal to people of all ages. E-mail me your covers at Rebecca (at) Fyfe (dot) net and I will create a post here and on Facebook for a vote on the best one.Voting will start on June 27th.

Some ChaBooCha members have submitted line drawings to include inside the anthology, and I am happy to include more. Make sure you sign your drawings, and there will be a page listing contributing artists within the anthology too. Cover artist will be credited separately.

The cover can be an idea that is just generic to fairy tales in general or magic, or it can relate to one or more of the stories that will be included in the anthology. Because, of this, I thought I'd list the topics of the stories which will be in the anthology (in no particular order).

Variations on the classics:
Rumplestiltskin
Little Red Riding Hood
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Frog Prince/Princess
Rapunzel
Snow White
Puss in Boots
Tom Thumb

Semi-original and completely original fairytales:
a story about a raven girl
a story about cherry trees
a story about a tree and a girl
a story about a little boy and the stars
a story about a little girl and the fairies
a story about a dancing girl elf
a story about the seasons
a story about an ancient turtle and a young blue bird
a story about a girl who outsmarts an ogre
a story about a man becoming a dragon
a story about an adventurous princess who saves a prince
a story about a girl who doesn't fit in and must find her place
a story about an ice-hearted dark fairy queen and a girl who needs her help
a story set in Japan, with a powerful woman and two young lovers

There are more stories than this, but this should cover most of the topics. There are other elements within these stories too, such as pirates, magical scepters, homicidal roaches and some hungry chickens. So dazzle us all with your creative magic and lets see what covers we can come up with! (If you're not sure about what a good book ocver should look like, browse the web or look at books on Amazon. Which book covers appeal to you? Which don't?

Since we don't have a title chosen yet, just put the title, temporarily, as "BOOK TITLE" for now, or wait until after the title has been voted on and chosen.

Latest news on the Chapter Book Challenge Anthology #ChaBooChaAnth

The Chapter Book Challenge anthology is coming along nicely. There are 21 people signed up to write a story for the anthology and another two who are in the maybe category and might still join us. The deadline for the first drafts is May 1st.  Some of the stories are already being turned in for editing.

I have been playing with ideas for the title and have a few selected for everyone to vote on, but I will get to it in another post. Once we have the title decided, we will begin working on the cover, and I am thinking we might make a competition out of it.

Although this is my first foray into self-publishing an anthology, it is not my first foray into self-publishing. And it is also not my first experience in contributing to a fairytale anthology. I have a flash fiction story in the anthology "Once Upon a Time: A Collection of Unexpected Fairytales."

Just for fun, I thought it would be good to have a prize awarded within the ranks of those of us writing for the ChaBooCha anthology. I've decided on two prizes, one for before the anthology is completed and one for after its completion.

Everyone who signed up to write a story for the challenge, once I get a draft of your story turned in, you'll be added into a drawing. The drawing will be done on May 7th, and the winner will get a print copy of "Once Upon a Time: A Collection of Unexpected Fairytales" sent to them.  There will be a second drawing done once the anthology we are creating is complete, and the winner of it will win a free copy of the Chapter Book Challenge anthology.

I am having fun reading the stories that are already turned in and am looking forward to reading the rest. Happy writing, everyone!