Adventures in Iowa
Just before I left for London a couple of weeks ago, I received an e-mail from Samantha in Iowa. Samantha is awesome.
Don’t believe me? I will now enter into evidence incontrovertible proof of this fact, in the form of her message. Take it away, Samantha:
Dear Mr. Brett,
I know the [DSAC] contest is over, and I didn’t send these in sooner because I ended up getting an ARC through Goodreads. But I saw you posted a picture of a late entry up on your website and I thought you might at least enjoy looking at these. Hopefully there’s not too many. I got a little carried away one boring winter day.
The new book, by the way, is fantastic. I can’t wait for my hardcover copy to arrive so I can read it again and fawn over the beautiful cover art.
I’ll offer a little narration for my pictures too. They’re all from on/around my dad’s farm in north central Iowa: (Don’t mind the plastic ziplock over the book. I had to keep it protected and I don’t know any wards against snow.=) )
I took this one because we don’t have deserts in Iowa, but in the winter, we get deserts of snow.
We don’t get sand dunes but we get lots of snow drifts!
This is my Arabian, Mariah. She’s no Twilight Dancer but she is a desert horse in a snowy world!
Next to the book are the tops of some of the snow fence. Pretty soon it’s not going to be holding much snow back!
These are so you could see the scale of our horse pasture fence and how high the snow got in places this winter.
Pictures at an abandoned farmstead. Perhaps corelings got to them!
My dad’s Newfoundland, Zeus, wanted his picture taken with the book too.
My favorite picture. I climbed to the top of the silo to take a picture out over the farm. The sunset almost matches the cover of the book. My copy of the book then proceeded to commit suicide and fall 75 feet down to the ground. Luckily it survived the fall with just a banged up corner. But it was worth it for this awesome picture.
Sincerely,
Samantha
I take it we are all now in agreement regarding Samantha’s awesomeness?
Yeah, I thought so.
Wow, these pictures are beautiful, particularly the one of the sunset. Though I’m now feeling rather cold after looking at all those snowy images.
Great job Samantha!
I love the picture of Zeus, what an awesome name for a dog! Plus he’s gorgeous.
What an awesome job!! The pictures and narrations are wonderful!!!