The 30C30D Project

Hi everyone! We've been getting a bunch of really great questions about the project. In case you might be curious, I've posted the email that goes out to Wrimos for 30 Covers, 30 Days, which includes a bit more detail about the process.

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Hi there,

We are excited to let you know that your 2011 NaNoWriMo novel may be receiving a cover designed by one of a team of professional designers! This team, under the supervision of the great John Gall, has agreed to try to bash out thirty NaNoWriMo book covers in November as part of our "30 Covers, 30 Days" project, which you can read about on our blog.

If you give us the okay, we'll send your title and synopsis to our all-star team of designers, who may decide to use them to create a cover design for your novel-in-progress. We say "may" because we're offering each designer three title options, from which they will choose one to portray.

John Gall's team is donating their design time for this project to NaNoWriMo, so this is totally free of charge to you. You're under no obligation to do anything with the cover once you get it.

In fact, the covers that this team creates for the "30 Covers, 30 Days" project are not intended for commercial or professional use. The covers will all be web-resolution images that will not be large enough for use as printed book covers. Think of it as a one-of-a-kind of NaNoWriMo souvenir that you can post in the forums, on your blog, or website.

Allowing one of these designers to make a cover for your NaNoWriMo 2011 novel will not involve any transfer of copyright or usage rights either way, or prevent you from having another cover designed later by a different artist or publisher. The completed covers will be posted on the NaNoWriMo blog and in our 30 Covers forum.

Please let us know if you are okay with all of the above and would like us to submit your work to John Gall's team as soon as possible! Also, please tell us how you'd like to have your name presented on the potential cover. Remember that the image will be posted on our blog, so if you have privacy concerns, feel free to give us a nom de plume, though we'd ask that you avoid using something like your username.

If you have any questions, please email or call me in the NaNoWriMo office.

Thank you so much for your continued participation in NaNoWriMo!

Tim Kim
Office Captain
The Office of Letters and Light