Contest: Design the P.U.V. James Keeling

Question MarkHow much do I appreciate all y'all junkies? Enough to turn over a key part of my fiction to you, and have a contest to see who can design the P.U.V. James Keeling, also known as "The Crypt."

Click here to learn about designing THE CRYPT.

I did a panel at Book Expo America with this cool cat named Derek Powazek (how cool? His whole frickin' arm is a tat of a giant squid). He is the founder of a site called Pixish.com, which lets you set up contests for visual images. I thought it was a great idea for opening up fiction illustration to the people who really give a shit -- the fans.

This is an experiment, and you have to register at Pixish.com. Don't cost nuthin'. The site supposedly handles all the elements of the submission process and the contest, so let's give it a shake down and see what nasty space visions the Junkies can come up with.

Oh and if you're not artistic but have a cool idea, feel free to get help from your non-Junkie friends.

Love to try, but...

...would 3D-renderings qualify as either "hand-drawn, vector line art, paintings, or mixed-media"? I'm guessing maybe vector line art or mixed-media...

I can picture it in my mind...

SynapticJam's picture

Now how to get it down in reality...

SynapticJam on Toast - hhhmmm... tastes like chicken (aka PUVJK) #2 in crack hits (Special?  Ain't I just)


I know what you mean.

tsolo888's picture

My partner in crime and I have some really cool concepts but getting them on paper into one concept is going to be challenging...Tsolo888 <AKA Cpt. Travis Ellis> - Out, Click here to Digg Infected


The two episodes...

 where can we finds these again?

The Irishman from Ohio


Where can you get that crypt story?

HTI's picture

It not in podiobooks and it does not show up in Amazon. As I have no idea whats in the story I would like an idea on the ship and its story.

 Yell  

Things go wrong and that is how we learn


Only 2 small episodes so far.

wallerdad's picture

  The FDO has only put out 2 small teaser episodes of The Crypt so far.

  • These gathering hosts of loyal junkies, under the command of the great SCOTT

The episodes are on the normal Scott Sigler Feed

SynapticJam's picture

The main one with the bloodcast in them.  If you're on this site, you may want to subscribe to that instead of the podiobooks feeds.  Scott has to edit out all the "commentary" from the files he provides for podiobooks... For a hard care junkie, that content is a must.  Follow the link to subscirbe on the left and sift through the back episodes of the feed... you'll find them there.  Strange titles...  Let me know if you have any questions.

SynapticJam on Toast - hhhmmm... tastes like chicken (aka PUVJK) #2 in crack hits (ain't I special)


Cool

The Rookie was my one of my all time favorite podcast novels. I loved the first vignettes of The Crypt and I was getting worried you'd abandoned the thing. Now that you told us about the whole scary as hell deadline I get why the story didn't continue and I'm glad to see work is still being done on it. Can't wait to see what the Keeling looks like and still hoping to hear some news on The Starter someday.

I can't wait to see what comes of this.

tsolo888's picture

Ya'll better design me a f-ing awsome ship to command or its the airlock for all of you!!!  or maybe I will try my hand at desiging it :)...Tsolo888 <AKA Cpt. Travis Ellis> - Out, Click here to Digg Infected


maybe synaptic jam should

Pjotr NL's picture

design it since the ship is named after him.

[1st Dutch junkie] All that matters is getting my fix.


Awesome!!

amaster's picture

 I would love to do this.  If I can just get a good idea, I would try to do this.

Sitting here with my computer hooked directly into a vein in my arm.

See my writing at http://Writing.Com/authors/amaster


cool

zaphodbblx's picture
Im really enjoying the crypt stories!

Ghost Ship

I'm not sure if anyone remembers this, but a while back, our future ddark-overlord mentioned a future podcast called "Ghost Ship". I'm thinking now that he changed the name to "The Crypt".

Ghost Ship is another story

scottsigler's picture
It's another story also set in THE ROOKIE universe. I've actually started it in similar fashion to THE CRYPT, that is, with vignettes about each character. It's a very, very cool story I hope to get to someday.

chilin'

jtswambo's picture

will go play now 

 

what's wrong with a bit of senseless violence to a lemming?

they're only going to walk off a cliff.


Sweet! But what happens with the winner

n8man's picture

Nate Dogg... "life is hard. But it's one helluva lot harder if you're stupid"- -John Wayne


well

Pjotr NL's picture

I guess our FDO will send pitbulls after them as well Laughing

[1st Dutch junkie] All that matters is getting my fix.


Pitbulls for winning????

MuchAdo's picture

Hope they are friendly!!

1st female junkie from Texas who lives in Houston and works at the Texas Medical Center.(HeHeHe)

"Even crazy people sometimes base their fiction on an ounce of truth" -Scott Sigler


Uh, Jam? Are you getting the "site" ready for your tattoo?

ogreoregon's picture
It looks like good things are beginning to happen with "The Crypt" so who knows what may happen in the end.
( pun definitly intended) You just may have to make good on your promise to FDO. hehehehehe. or was that my promise?
*I am the Rear Admiral but Sigler gives the Orders*

I'm ready!

SynapticJam's picture

How cool is this!  I gotta try to design the thing!  That would be even better! 

SynapticJam on Toast - hhhmmm... tastes like chicken (aka PUVJK) #2 in crack hits (ain't I special)


That's just awesome

SlackerQueen's picture
I'd so enter that if I had any artistic ability.


So get some help ... ya slacker!

scottsigler's picture
Hey, I didn't let a complete lack of writing ability hinder me from getting published. Go find a friend and work on it together.

Can't guarantee it

SlackerQueen's picture

Alot of my friends are not interested in anything to do with audiobooks, and the rest of them say they have this things called 'jobs', whatever that is.

 

...I'm begining to regret randomly choosing this username. Tongue out

 


And while you're working with that friend...

SynapticJam's picture

Get them hooked on the Sigleriscious goodness! 

SynapticJam on Toast - hhhmmm... tastes like chicken (aka

PUVJK) #2 in crack hits (ain't I special)


Freakin' Awsome!

JP's picture
I suspect this will produce some pretty sweet designs! Especially after seeing some of the other artwork, and the models of the triangle creatures!

 - Verveces tui similes pro ientaculo mihi appositi sunt. (I have jerks like you for breakfast.)


how cool

how cool is this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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