As some of you may have noticed (at least one of you did, because you made fun of me), I have a section for fan art on this website. Why? Because I love fan art. I have loved fan art since Elfwood.com was a big thing. I loved fan art when it was something people did on the back of homework. It’s a way to connect to someone else’s idea. That’s pretty cool.

Do I get a lot of art for my own work? No. Of course I don’t. I have one book out. I have a few thousand readers, and while many of them are very loving and enthusiastic, not everyone feels the impulse to draw what they read. If you’re not J.K Rowling or Patricia Briggs (and I’m not), you don’t get much fan art.

But I won’t take that section of the website down, because I love it.

And also because it houses some amazing art by Kari Kartoonist.

So we’re going to fill it, instead.

HERE IS THE DEAL:

Make me some art of Mab and Vet from The Big Book of Post-Collapse Fun. Scribble on a napkin. Make a mashed potato sculpture. I don’t care. Mab is a badass with a curvy body and spiky red hair. Vet is a big blackish silly dog. They should be fun subjects.

Then send that art to [email protected], with the subject “ART!”

Everyone who sends in a creation will get a free digital copy of book two, A Word And A Bullet.

One winning entry, as selected by a panel of Twitter followers, will get a $50.00 Amazon Gift Card.

Contest ends 5/1/16.

Happy art-making.