November is over!

NaNoWriMo has concluded.

Hopefully everyone had fun, got some words down, and is ready for whatever December brings.

First and foremost, thanks to Debbie Millman for coordinating once again. Every year, she goes above and beyond to help us put this program together. Round of applause, everyone!

Also, huge thanks to the designers, without whom this whole endeavor wouldn’t be possible. These are professional designers who choose to donate their time and energy for zero money. Everyone should give them as much love as you possibly can! (A full list of designers can be found below!)

And, of course, there are the participants, who submit their synopses. Make no mistake: it’s a brave and vulnerable thing to give people a glimpse of your creativity. So thanks to everyone who submitted!

And the bell tolls on another great November! 30 Covers, 30 Days was a whopping success: thirty lucky people, out of nearly 5,500, were chosen to have unique covers designed for their synopses. Every morning featured a new and enticing piece of bookish art—from science fiction, to humor, to memoir; each day promised an exciting visual quirk, and offered an inspiration to keep writing.

So, thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who worked so hard to put this project together. Thank you to the gifted and talented designers who feasted on 24 hours of spontaneous creativity and put together thirty of the most beautiful covers I have ever seen.

Thank you to Debbie Millman, for facilitating this project, and for being so fun to work with.

Thank you to everyone who has followed the project throughout the month, talked about the covers in the forums, and liked the posts on our blog.

And, finally, thank you to all of the amazing, imaginative, and daring people who took the time and had the courage to nominate their synopses. If it wasn’t for you, there would be no 30 Covers, 30 Days.  

The 2013 genre breakdown looked a little like this: