Art Competition — Win Books! #dreamYAbooks
Art Competition – Win Books! #dreamYAbooks
For the next three weeks YA authors Betsy Streeter and Madeline Dyer will be getting together to run an art competition. The prizes? Digital copies of our books:
We both love art. Aside from being authors, Betsy is also a cartoonist, and Madeline is also a clay artist. And we love seeing readers’ art.
To take part in our competition to win digital copies of our books, all you need to do is draw your dreams and post them on social media (more about that below) by the 14th November 2016! This can be a drawing of a dream you’ve had, or a depiction of your ambitions for the future.
Why dreams? Well, dreams are central to both our YA series, and they fascinate both of us.
You can use any medium you like to create your art! Pencil, pen, chalk, pastel, and paint are all good. As are collages, embroidery, and digital drawings.
How to enter:
When you’ve finished your artwork, take a photo of it and post* it to Twitter and/or Instagram. In your post, be sure to include the link to this page, the hashtag #dreamYAbooks and tag both @MadelineDyerUK and @BetsyStreeter. (If you run out of characters to mention us in your post, then you can tag us within the actual images—that’s cool).
*We’ll only be able to see entries from accounts that are public. If you post from a private account, we may not see it.
All entries need to be posted by November 14th at the latest. And please do read the terms and conditions at the bottom of this post.
Example posts for social media (feel free to use these templates):
I’m drawing my dreams to win YA books by @BetsyStreeter and @MadelineDyerUK. #dreamYAbooks [link to competition info page–that’s this page!] [attached image of your art]
Here’s my entry for the art competition, @MadelineDyerUK @BetsyStreeter #dreamYAbooks [link to competition info page–that’s this page!] [attached image of your art]
In three weeks, we’ll pick some winners who’ll each receive a digital copy of two books from each of us–that’s four ebooks per winner! (And this is open internationally!)
There’ll be a winner for each of the following categories:
- The creepiest dream artwork
- The most creative dream artwork
- The artwork that most closely resembles a dream in either of Betsy Streeter’s books
- The artwork that most closely resembles a dream in either of Madeline Dyer’s books
We’re so excited to see what you come up with!
About the books you could win…
Untamed by Madeline Dyer
As one of the last Untamed humans left in the world, Seven’s life has always been controlled by tight rules. Stay away from the Enhanced. Don’t question your leader. And, most importantly, never switch sides—because once you’re Enhanced there’s no going back. Even if you have become the perfect human being.
But after a disastrous raid on an Enhanced city, Seven soon finds herself in her enemy’s power. Realizing it’s only a matter of time before she too develops a taste for the chemical augmenters responsible for the erosion of humanity, Seven knows she must act quickly if she’s to escape and save her family from the same fate.
Yet, as one of the most powerful Seers that the Untamed and Enhanced have ever known, Seven quickly discovers that she alone holds the key to the survival of only one race. But things aren’t clear-cut anymore, and with Seven now questioning the very beliefs she was raised on, she knows she has an important choice to make. One that has two very different outcomes.
Seven must choose wisely whose side she joins, for the War of Humanity is underway, and Death never takes kindly to traitors.
Fragmented by Madeline Dyer
After the terrible battle against the Enhanced Ones, Seven and Corin find themselves on the run. With the Enhanced closing in, Seven knows they need to find other people on their side. So, when the opportunity arises to join the Zharat, one of the last surviving Untamed tribes, it seems like the perfect solution.
But the Zharat lifestyle is a far cry from what Seven’s used to. With their customs dictating that she must marry into their tribe, and her relationship with Corin breaking down, Seven knows she has to do something before it’s too late. But that’s easier said than done in a tribe where going against the rules automatically results in death.
And, with the Enhanced still out there, nowhere is truly safe for the Untamed—least of all for the most powerful Seer in the world… and Seven soon discovers how far people will go in order to ensure that she’s on their side in the War of Humanity.
Battling against the emerging web of lies, manipulation, and danger, Seven must remember who she was meant to be. Her life has never been more at stake. Nor has humanity itself.
Silverwood by Betsy Streeter
A story of finding where you belong, even if it involves time travel, shape shifting, and hacking.
Helen Silverwood, fourteen, is sick of life on the run with her mom and her younger brother. Nothing makes sense. She doesn’t understand why she has recurring dreams of shape-shifting creatures, why her mother is always disappearing, and how her brother can draw things that haven’t happened yet. Most of all, Helen longs to know what happened to her dad—is he imprisoned, a fugitive, or gone forever?
When someone blows up the apartment where Helen lives, the stories of the ancient Silverwood clan—and her role in it—begin to unravel. All Helen wants is to feel like there’s someplace she belongs—but getting there will prove very, very complicated.
Silver Shard by Betsy Streeter
Monder is a Tromindox so dangerous he was banished to a labyrinth that exists out of time. The portal that sent him there has been severed in two, never to be made whole or used again. But when Monder gains possession of one of the halves, the Silverwoods are faced with the prospect that he might escape. Henry Silverwood, whose Guild talents are growing exponentially, is taken when Helen is faced with an impossible choice: give him up, or watch him be eaten. Meanwhile, the Tromindox are evolving – and the Silverwoods do not have the advantages in hunting them that they once had. Now, the Silverwoods must make sense of Monder’s increasing power in the time world, find Henry, and avoid extinction themselves.
DREAMYABOOKS Art Contest Terms & Conditions
(1) The 2016 #DreamYABooks Art Contest runs from October 24th to November 14th, 2016. All entries are to be digitally submitted no later than 11:59pm U.S. Pacific Time on November 14th, 2016.
(2) Entries must be submitted using the guidelines stated on http://www.madelinedyer.co.uk/art-competition/
(3) Submitted artwork must be your original creation!
(4) You may submit multiple entries.
(5) By entering this Art Contest all entrants agree to these Terms & Conditions.
(6) All artwork must be posted to Instagram and/or Twitter and include in the post the hashtag #dreamYAbooks, and tag both @betsystreeter and @madelinedyeruk
(7) The Art Contest will be judged by Madeline Dyer and Betsy Streeter.
(8) By entering this Contest, each contestant consents to the use of his/her name, and/or artwork in any merchandise, advertisements, educational materials or publicity carried out or produced by Madeline Dyer and Betsy Streeter and its advertising and promotional agencies without further notice or compensation. Madeline Dyer and Betsy Streeter can publish or decline to publish, or use or decline to use, any submitted artwork at their sole discretion. In turn, the contestant still retains the rights to use and publish their artwork.
(9) Prizes and Categories are as follows:
- Winner of the ‘creepiest dream’ category will win digital copies* of Silverwood, Silver Shard, Untamed, and Fragmented.
- Winner of the ‘most creative dream’ category will win digital copies* of Silverwood, Silver Shard, Untamed, and Fragmented.
- Winner of the ‘artwork that most closely resembles a dream in either of Betsy Streeter’s books’ category will win digital copies* of Silverwood, Silver Shard, Untamed, and Fragmented.
- Winner of the ‘artwork that most closely resembles a dream in either of Madeline Dyer’s books’ category will win digital copies* of Silverwood, Silver Shard, Untamed, and Fragmented.
*A digital copy means an ebook in PDF, mobi, or epub format.
Upon acceptance of a winner’s digital copy of any of the above books, you agree that under no circumstances will you sell, trade, copy, cause to copy, pirate or cause to pirate, scan or replicate or contribute to the replication of the any portion of the digital copy of the book provided or any propriety property provided by the author and publisher. You are legally liable if you violate this trust that is being placed in you by the author. By accepting a winner’s copy of Untamed or Fragmented or Silverwood or Silver Shard you agree to abide by these terms and conditions.
(10) The Contest Sponsor’s rulings are final and without appeal in all matters related to this Contest and the awarding of the Prizes. The Contest is subject to all applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations.
(11) Contest Sponsor, its advertising and promotion agencies assume no responsibility for lost, stolen, delayed, damaged, illegible, incomplete, postage-due, garbled or misdirected entries or entries that have been submitted through illicit means, or do not conform to or satisfy the Contest Rules or for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, access providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any entry to be received or traffic congestion on the internet or at any website, or any combination thereof including any injury or damage to an entrant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from playing or downloading any material in the contest.
(12) By entering this Contest, entrants agree to release and hold harmless Betsy Streeter and Madeline Dyer and their respective employees, officers, directors, agents, representatives, successors, assigns, advertising and promotional agencies from any liability for any loss or damage of any kind to the entrant or any other person in connection with this Contest or participation in any Contest related activities, including but not limited to the use or misuse of a prize or any portion of a prize including personal injury, death or property damage.
(13) The Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, cancel or suspend this Contest should an external circumstances arise which are beyond the reasonable control of the Contest Sponsor. The Contest Sponsor is not responsible for any errors or omissions in printing or advertising this Contest. This Contest will run in accordance with these Contest Rules, subject to amendment by the Contest Sponsor. Contest Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, amend, modify or terminate this Contest or the Rules at any time in its sole discretion and without notice.
(14) Entrants must comply with these rules, and will be deemed to have received and understood the rules if they participate in the Contest.
If you have any questions not answered here, or suggestions, please send a note to either Mail [at] BetsyStreeter.com or MadelineDyerAuthor [at] yahoo.co.uk
