Okay. We’ve got the next installment of the photo contest.
You can find the other pieces here: [Prologue] [Part I] [Part II] [Part III]
Today we’re doing two rather… divergent categories: Babies and Knives.
- Knives
For some reason, a fair number of people sent in pictures of my book with some sort of blade-related theme. Not dozens of them, but a statistically significant amount. Enough to warrant a small category of their own.
I looked at this picture and said, “Wait, is that Glamring?” Then I went to check the internet and saw it was.
I don’t know if if I feel proud for recognizing it or not…
Our winner in this small category is…
The composition is beautiful, and it reminds Amanda a little bit of the photos we took of my Gemmel award.
While normally, I don’t approve of book abuse, I have to admire this person’s dedication to the contest. Bravo.
- Babies
This was one of our larger categories, since pretty much everyone had a cute kid who loved my book.
Bruce here made an appearance in a few different photos, clearly engrossed in the book.
The title of this one was “Just two more minutes please, I just got to a good bit.” Which is pretty much exactly what it looks like happened.
Image title can actually have a lot to do with which ones I like. For example, the above photo’s title was “bwuh.” It was pretty fun to say out loud. Amanda and I said it back and forth to each other for kind of a remarkable amount of time.
A big sister reading to her little brother. Or at least pretending to…
My books tend to cause exhaustion, especially in such tiny bodies.
Mommy probably just told her there’s no release date for book 3.
This was just an adorable picture.
I respect anyone willing to dress their kid up in a cloak.
I could do a kid’s book called, “The Littlest E’lir…”
He looks so proud of himself…
This one scores extra points because:
a) you can see the tape holding the glasses to the kid’s face,
and B) the image title was “Holy sympathist batman, Kvothe did WHAT??”
Winners:
There were multiple pictures sent in of little Abby here, and Amanda declared that, although she has no intention of ever, *ever* having children, she would change her mind if she knew hers would come out as adorable as this.
That near-miracle by itself is worth a place in the winner’s circle.
The incredibly smug look on this baby Adem won my heart.
Here we’ve got someone who actually took the time to bring my book to the hospital for a photo op when they were having an actual baby. An act of devotion that you’d think would win them the top place on this list.
Except we’ve got someone who takes the concept of dedication to a whole different level:
Reading during, and after, her labor.
It looks like it was a long labor, considering how far she got in the book. Plus, I appreciate that she went the extra mile and wore one of the Kingkiller T-shirts we sell in the Tinker’s Packs. That was a nice touch.
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There were too many baby and knife photos for us to fit into one blog. But we’ve got the others in over here if you want to check them out….