Hey, #actuallyautistic (and artistic) Tumblr ladies!
We’re looking for an artist for the cover of a book about autistic women!
An acquaintance named Heather Stone Wodis asked me to share this. She is having a book published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. It’s her PhD thesis and it’s a collection and discussion of the stories of several women on the autism spectrum.
She’s offering $100 for a good piece of original art for the cover, created by a woman on the autism spectrum.
It can be something you’ve already done, it can already be posted online somewhere, just as long as it’s your own work and you think it would fit well with a book about autistic women’s stories.
Since it’s a pretty serious book (again, a PhD thesis), I don’t think she’d be interested in art that’s cartoonish, but whatever you have, it can’t hurt to try.
I’m guessing it would have to be a pretty high-resolution image. 300 dpi at least. And big enough to fill the width of a standard book cover (maybe 6 by 9 inches). I don’t think it has to be the same dimensions as a book cover, because they can put the title and author’s name above and below it, or crop to a part of it. But it needs at least enough resolution for them to do that.
To submit:
Send me (@erikahammerschmidt) either a message on Tumblr, or an email at humanalien@gmail.com. Include either an attached file of the art, or a link to where you have it up online.
I will send Heather what you send me. She’ll look at the pieces and pick one to use. I’ll get back to the winner when she decides.
Notes:
1. I am not sure of the deadline, and she isn’t either. It’s probably soon, because the book is just about to come out. So I wouldn’t recommend starting a project that will take a long time.
2. I am not sure how the artist would be paid. I’m guessing she could do Paypal or a check in the mail, but I don’t know for sure. I really haven’t gotten much time to talk to her about this, and I’m in a hurry to post this because the deadline is probably quite soon.
2. She hasn’t told me how she defines either “autistic” or “women.” She seems like a very progressive and accepting person, so I would hope that she would accept self-diagnosed autistics and trans women, but I can’t guarantee that she would.
However, I doubt that she would require you to show her your diagnosis or the sex on your birth certificate, and she might have to know your legal name in order to send you the payment but that’s probably all.