Boys and girls!
Now that HC3 is well and truly on sale I'm thinking it's time to do something I've been wanting to do for a while: a Heathen City fan fiction and fan art contest.
For the fan fiction side I'd be looking for short stories preferably between 2500 and 5000 words, and as a prize I'd hire one of the HC artists to make an illustration of the story or record a dramatic reading.
For the fan art side we'd look for full-color, 8.5" x 11", 300dpi minimum. For the winner I'd write or record a short piece of fiction based on the illustration, and present that to them in a nice li'l well-laid-out booklet with their art on the cover, or maybe a poster.
I'm still working out a few details. One issue is that I'd need to build a disclaimer to cover myself from later accusations of plagiarism, which is actually kind of serious business. For instance, if a writer invents a plot twist, by coincidence, that I've already planned to incorporate in a later issue, he could make a case that I stole the idea from him. This is why writers are advised against reading any fanfiction, but in this case I'd have to judge the submissions, soooo...
I think it'd be fun, though. I've encountered a few bits of fanart here and there, one musician indicated he was working on a song, and I even found a chick on FurAffinity whose persona was basically (no joke!) a hetero version of Malloy. His name? Malloy.
What do you guys think? Would any of you be up to the challenge?
- Alex Fucking Vance