O how could I forget?!?
In all the excitement about the TPOTS Cover Contest Winners, I left out one category:
Best Madcap Use of Photography in a Live Setting!
And the Prize goes to the dynamic duo of
Alena McNamara aka![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
aamcnamara and Kate ("the Swordswoman in the Picture") Potter !
Alena explains:
I sent a message to Kate suggesting a "terribawesome idea": that she should dress up in Katherine-y clothes and do swashbuckley poses while I chased her around the Mount Holyoke campus with a camera. She's a former fencer who's loved The Privilege of the Sword since I, er, gently encouraged her to read it (dating me comes with a reading list), so of course she said yes--and then texted me the next day to suggest a location for the photoshoot. We took photographs across half of campus, but the location she suggested, the garden beside Abbey Chapel, produced the picture we chose for our entry.
They will be receiving some kind of weird prize, if I can find one good enough.
Meanwhile, thanks again to everyone who entered the contest or helped to spread the word about it, and about the new Privilege of the Sword audiobook, whose release all this was in honor of.
I encourage you to go and look at the contest winners here - and also to dig back into the contest Comments for all the entries, which are superb. Oh, and here is Kate & Alena's original post of the photo on Tumblr, for those who wish to ReBlog.
In all the excitement about the TPOTS Cover Contest Winners, I left out one category:
Best Madcap Use of Photography in a Live Setting!
And the Prize goes to the dynamic duo of
Alena McNamara aka
aamcnamara and Kate ("the Swordswoman in the Picture") Potter !Alena explains:
I sent a message to Kate suggesting a "terribawesome idea": that she should dress up in Katherine-y clothes and do swashbuckley poses while I chased her around the Mount Holyoke campus with a camera. She's a former fencer who's loved The Privilege of the Sword since I, er, gently encouraged her to read it (dating me comes with a reading list), so of course she said yes--and then texted me the next day to suggest a location for the photoshoot. We took photographs across half of campus, but the location she suggested, the garden beside Abbey Chapel, produced the picture we chose for our entry.
They will be receiving some kind of weird prize, if I can find one good enough.
Meanwhile, thanks again to everyone who entered the contest or helped to spread the word about it, and about the new Privilege of the Sword audiobook, whose release all this was in honor of.
I encourage you to go and look at the contest winners here - and also to dig back into the contest Comments for all the entries, which are superb. Oh, and here is Kate & Alena's original post of the photo on Tumblr, for those who wish to ReBlog.