{"id":227,"date":"2025-12-01T17:56:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T17:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:10:34","slug":"best-book-cover-of-2025-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/01\/best-book-cover-of-2025-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Book Cover of 2025 Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE VERY LAST PRODUCTION OF KING LEAR has been selected over hundreds of entries to be among the six finalists for the best Fiction or Non-fiction cover for 2025 by Kobo, the leading online bookseller in Canada, Europe, and Australia. Hurrah!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opinionstage.com\/page\/8a9ae068-052f-4c9b-af90-c2f118cb1b0f\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-200 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VLPKingLearCover220w-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Very Last Production of King Lear, book cover image\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VLPKingLearCover220w-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VLPKingLearCover220w.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s up to the reading public to choose the winner.\u00a0 I implore you to click on the link and vote! Forward this to all your friends to vote, too! Award-winning visual artist Jonas Peres of Madrid, Spain, and I spent lots of time and effort to make the cover what it is, and I do love it. So I&#8217;d love your support to push it over the top!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opinionstage.com\/page\/8a9ae068-052f-4c9b-af90-c2f118cb1b0f\">Vote here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the book:<\/strong> In this third novel of the series, Dwayne Finnegan has another crack at the big time as he directs his highly talented (but definitely dysfunctional) actors in <em><span class=\"a-text-italic\">King Lear<\/span> <\/em>at Chicago\u2019s prestigious Goodman Theatre. However, his lead actor succumbs to terminal confusion, his set designer plans a huge, illegal fire effect on stage, his actors fall in and out of love, his wife Angela consorts with a mysterious curandera, and Dwayne must set everyone straight before opening night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE VERY LAST PRODUCTION OF KING LEAR has been selected over hundreds of entries to be among the six finalists for the best Fiction or Non-fiction cover for 2025 by Kobo, the leading online bookseller in Canada, Europe, and Australia. Hurrah! Now, it&#8217;s up to the reading public to choose the winner.\u00a0 I implore you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/01\/best-book-cover-of-2025-contest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Book Cover of 2025 Contest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}