Showing posts with label 2015/16. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2015/16. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 November 2015

MR RIPLEY'S BOOK COVER AWARD: HEAT FOUR (Plus a Mystery Book Prize Competition)

Welcome all.....
Mr Ripley's Enchanted Book Cover Award Rules:
There will be four weekly heats with five book covers to vote for. All heat winners will make the grand final. However, one more entry will also be entered into the final - this will be the book cover with the most votes from the other four heats as the runner up. 

Heat One Winner: Darren Shan - Zom-B - Fugitive (US Cover) - 133 Votes. 
Heat Two Winner: M. G. Leonard/Juila Sarda - Beetle Boy - 86 Votes.
Heat Three Winner:  Alwyn Hamilton - Rebel of the Sands - 56 Votes

As a voter, not only will you get the chance to choose your favourite book cover, but you will also be in with the chance to win a different special book each week. Therefore, in order to kick off the competition this week we have an amazing book, which is a mystery book/books. 

If you are interested then all you need to do is:
  • Vote for your favourite book cover using the poll - VOTE HERE
  • Leave a comment through this post or poll - VOTE HERE
  • Spread the word on Twitter/Facebook #BOOKCOVERWARS 
  • Sit back, watch the voting develop and wait to hear whether you've won (once the poll has closed). Please note that this competition is open to the UK only.
  • This poll will close 25th November 2015 (midnight UK time.) 
So here are the five book covers to vote for this week:



Book One: Danny Wallace - Hamish and the Neverpeople - Published by Simon & Schuster Children's Books (1 Mar. 2016) - Book Cover Art by Jamie Littler - VOTE HERE 


Book Two: Alexander Gordon Smith - The Devil's Engine: Hellraisers - Published by  Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr) (Dec. 2015) - Book Cover Art by Andrew Arnold - VOTE HERE


Book Three: Lu Hersey - Deep Water - Published by Usborne Publishing Ltd (1 July 2015) - Book Cover Art by Will Steele - VOTE HERE


Book Four: Jim Carrington - Boy 23 - Published by Bloomsbury Children's (19 Nov. 2015) - Book Cover Art by Levente Szabo - VOTE HERE



Book Five: Andy Briggs - Villain.Net: Collision Course - Published by WhiteGlove Agency (Amazon) (1. Jan 2015) - Book Cover Art by Alex Thompson - Vote Here. 

Happy voting all.....







Wednesday, 11 November 2015

MR RIPLEY'S BOOK COVER AWARD: HEAT THREE: Plus win a copy Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School


For any follower of this site this is the chance for you to become part of the weekly book cover wars. I am going to select five book covers for you to vote for. The winner of each heat will then go forward to the final round and get a chance to be crowned as 'Mr Ripley's Enchanted Book Cover Winner 2015/16'.

Heat One Winner: Darren Shan - Zom-B - Fugitive (US Cover) - 133 Votes. 
Heat Two Winner: M. G. Leonard/Juila Sarda - Beetle Boy - 86 Votes.

Mr Ripley's Enchanted Book Cover War Rules:
There will be four weekly heats with five book covers to vote for. All heat winners will make the grand final. However, one more entry will also be entered into the final - this will be the book cover with the most votes from the other four heats as the runner up. 

As a voter, not only will you get the chance to choose your favourite book cover, but you will also be in with the chance to win a different special book each week. Therefore, in order to kick off the competition this week we have an amazing book, which is a hardback copy of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School by Jeff Kinney.

If you are interested then all you need to do is:
  • Vote for your favourite book cover using the poll - VOTE HERE
  • Leave a comment through this post or poll - VOTE HERE
  • Spread the word on Twitter/Facebook #BOOKCOVERWARS 
  • Sit back, watch the voting develop and wait to hear whether you've won (once the poll has closed). Please note that this competition is open to the UK only.
  • This poll will close 17th November 2015 (midnight UK time.) 
So here are the five book covers to vote for this week:


Book One: Alwyn Hamilton - Rebel of the Sands - Published by Viking Books for Young Readers (8 Mar. 2016) - Book Cover art by Will Steele - VOTE HERE


Book Two: Huw Powell - Spacejackers: The Lost Sword - Published by Bloomsbury Children's (2 July 2015) - Book Cover art by Alex Fuentes -  VOTE HERE


Book Three: Abi Elphinstone - The Dream Snatcher - Published by Simon & Schuster Ltd (26 Feb. 2015) - Book Cover art by Thomas Flintham - VOTE HERE


Book Four: Nicholas Gannon - The Doldrums - Published by HarperCollins Children's Books (8 Oct. 2015) - Book Cover art by Nicholas Gannon/Paul Zakris - VOTE HERE



Book Five: Jon Mayhew - The Venom of the Scorpion (Monster Odyssey 4) published by Bloomsbury Children's (14 Jan. 2016) Book Cover art by Justin Goby Fields - VOTE HERE



Happy voting, please leave a comment on the post/poll, you might win that book! 

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