Thanks for the comp
About The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Dymocks Promotion
Murdoch Books and Dymocks have teamed up in search of a new
illustrator, someone whose work has not yet been published in
commercially released book form, to create a brand new cover image for
one of the year’s bestselling titles and the first book in the Millennium
Trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.
The Millennium Trilogy is a publishing phenomenon with over 38 million copies sold worldwide.
Murdoch Books has sold over 575,000 copies of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in Australia and New
Zealand and has been in the local best-seller lists for months. The movie was released in Australia on
the 31st March, 2010.
The judging panel for the best cover design will include Don Grover, CEO of Dymocks Booksellers, and
Reuben Crossman, award-winning designer from Murdoch Books.
Illustration brief
Entry into The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo competition involves producing a brand new cover design,
without using any of the elements of the current cover designs for this book. You can use any medium,
as long as it can be sent for judging in electronic form.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a violent and bloody thriller, a sinister family saga, a mystery of
massive financial fraud and an ambiguous and haunting love story. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a
genuinely complex and unique contribution to crime fiction.
Entry deadline
5pm on Tuesday 4th October 2010Specifications
Entries must be sent to dymocksgwdt@murdochbooks.com.au
Low resolution pdfs or 72 dpi RGB jpegs of no greater than a total of 1.5MB. Artwork dimensions:
198mm x 129 mm
Please save files: YourName_GWDTcomp.jpeg or YourName_GWDTcomp.pdf
The winner must be able to produce as hi res finished print ready artwork file on the day of the
announcing of the winner.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Background
Blurb:
‘Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island
owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. Harriet’s uncle,
Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family
- the deeply dysfunctional Vanger clan.
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate, but when he
links Harriet’s disappearance to a string of gruesome murders from forty
years ago, he needs a competent assistant and he gets one: computer
hacker Lisbeth Salander - a tattooed, truculent, angry girl who rides a motorbike like a Hell’s Angel
and handles makeshift weapons with the skill born of remorseless rage.
This unlikely pair form a fragile bond as they delve into the sinister past of this secretive, island-bound,
tightly-knit family.’ See chapter extract.
Since the first release in 2008, the cover for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has 4 versions.
Published February 2008
572 pages, trade paperback
234 x 153mm
AU$32.95
ISBN 9781847243492
Published January 2009
542 pages, B format paperback
198 x 129 mm
AU$24.95
ISBN 9781847245458
Published August 2009
542 pages, B format paperback
129 x 198mm
AU $24.95
ISBN 9781906694678
Published March 2010
542 pages, B format paperback
129 x 198mm
AU $24.95
ISBN 9781849163828
Competition Application Process and Terms and Conditions:
1. Information on how to enter and on the prize form part of these
terms and conditions. Any entry not complying with these terms
and conditions is invalid.
2. Promotion commences 1st September 2010 and entries are due
by 5pm Monday 4th October 2010 Entries must be in emailed in
the digital format specified.
3. The competition is opened to Australian residents only.4. Entries may be emailed to:
dymocksgwdt@murdochbooks.com.au with
‘Dymocks GWDT Competition’ in the subject heading.
Please note that we will not accept original hard copy material
as they will not be returned.5. Dymocks and Murdoch Books accepts no responsibility for
entries not received due to any technological problems.
6. Entry is open to all illustrators and only one entry per person will be accepted.7. Entries must be a completely new image/design as there are photographer’s rights inherent
in the existing cover treatments.
8. All entries must be the original work of the entrant and Copyright page must be as per
standard edition.
9. The winning entrant, on accepting the prize, is deemed to have transferred copyright to the
new image/design to Quercus. The winner must do all such other acts and things as are
necessary to give effect to the transfer of copyright.
10. Artwork will only be used as a one off for the 5000 copies printed
11. Entrants must have not been previously published in a commercially released book*,
anywhere in the world. (* Books that have an ISBN — International Standard Book Number
- are considered a commercially released book.)
12. The prize will consist of a Mac Book Air valued at $ 2000.00 and the inclusion of the
illustrator’s name on the cover of the book. Plus 20 copies of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
competition edition.13. The new Dymocks cover is just a new wrapper and carries with it no rights to the content of
the book.
14. The Promoter is Dymocks Franchise Systems (NSW) Pty Ltd ABN 73 002 989 862 of
Level 6, 428 George Street, Sydney NSW, Australia 2000, telephone 02 9224 0411.The
competition will be judged by Don Grover, CEO of the Promoter and Reuben Crossmen of
Murdoch Books.
15. The winner will be notified on Monday 11th October 2010. All decisions by the judging panel
are final and binding on every person who enters. No correspondence will be entered into.
16. The winner must be able to produce as hi res finished print ready artwork file on the day of
the announcing of the winner.
17. Entrants agree that Dymocks and Quercus may use their image/design for public relations
and promotional releases related to the competition. Each entrant grants each of Dymocks
and Quercus an irrevocable free licence to use the image/design (with or without attribution
to the creator) for the purpose referred to in the preceding sentence.
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