{"id":4329,"date":"2009-02-03T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2009-02-03T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T10:29:00","slug":"my-friend-sancho-finds-a-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/my-friend-sancho-finds-a-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"My Friend Sancho Finds A Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’m delighted to announce the result of the cover design competition<\/a> for my first novel, My Friend Sancho<\/i>. We received so many fabulous designs that it took us a while just to look at them all carefully, process them, and make a shortlist after considering all the parameters. Hachette India, my publishers, were awed by the range of designs we had to choose from—and I am deeply grateful that so many people chose to take part.<\/p>\n After much debate, we have a winner. Prem Kishore of Hungry & Foolish Creative Products walks away with Rs. 15,000 worth of Hachette India books. Here is his design (click on the image below for a larger image):<\/p>\n <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n There will be minor tweaks, of course, and the text and photograph at the back are dummy, just for the purposes of designing. But here it is.<\/p>\n Of all the other designers, I’d also like to mention Manish Sahu, a designer from Nagpur who also writes a pretty neat blog<\/a>. Manish entered designs like Virender Sehwag hits boundaries, and more than half the shortlisted designs were by this one dude. My publishers and I felt awful that after all that work, he didn’t win, so we will send him a special Hachette hamper—and I’m certain he’s going to design many covers for many lucky writers. A couple of his designs, and other special mentions, below the fold:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m delighted to announce the result of the cover design competition<\/a> for my first novel, My Friend Sancho<\/i>. We received so many fabulous designs that it took us a while just to look at them all carefully, process them, and make a shortlist after considering all the parameters. Hachette India, my publishers, were awed by the range of designs we had to choose from—and I am deeply grateful that so many people chose to take part.<\/p>\n After much debate, we have a winner. Prem Kishore of Hungry & Foolish Creative Products walks away with Rs. 15,000 worth of Hachette India books. Here is his design (click on the image below for a larger image):<\/p>\n [embedded image]<\/p>\n There will be minor tweaks, of course, and the text and photograph at the back are dummy, just for the purposes of designing. But here it is.<\/p>\n Of all the other designers, I’d also like to mention Manish Sahu, a designer from Nagpur who also writes a pretty neat blog<\/a>. Manish entered designs like Virender Sehwag hits boundaries, and more than half the shortlisted designs were by this one dude. My publishers and I felt awful that after all that work, he didn’t win, so we will send him a special Hachette hamper—and I’m certain he’s going to design many covers for many lucky writers. A couple of his designs, and other special mentions, below the fold:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n