May 25th, 2013
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Updated – Doctor Who Celebrate Regenerate Book
Doctor Who Celebrate Regenerate! – Updated
In order to aid the celebrations of Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary this year, quite an epic-sized group of fans have come together from all over the world to build Celebrate Regenerate, a fan-made (non-profit and unofficial) book, filled with reviews and articles covering every televised story.
At over 300 A4 pages, this doorstop of a book is packed with pieces from over 250+ fan writers, and we’ve even included some fanart too. To top it all, we’ve also bagged a few exclusive interviews with Series 1 director, Joe Ahearne; writer Tom MacRae, and writer Joseph Lidster which will be published alongside some other special features in the book.
The project, now a year in the making, is set to be released on 13th July this year, well in time for the anniversary. We aim to simply add to the growing list of contributions from other fans and writers, and our goal is now to reach out to as many fans as possible to share our finished project.
(Up until 8th July, they are offering everybody the chance to have their name listed in the book as a ‘Companion’ too, to make up for them not knowing about this and being able to submit.)
On Launch day (13th July), people will be able to order a physical copy from Lulu.com via www.celebrateregenerate.com, and an instant [free] PDF version will also be available for download.
Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Celebrate, Regenerate!
From www.celebrateregenerate.com
Celebrate, Regenerate is a fan-created non-profit book which will celebrate the last 50 years of Doctor Who!
Since July 2012, we’ve been accepting reviews and celebratory articles for every televised Who story. The response has been overwhelming and I’d like to thank everybody who has tweeted, contributed, written for us, and/or spread the word.
Over the next few months, I’ll be editing all the submissions and placing them into the Celebrate Regenerate book. At the moment, that’s basically all the information I can give.
*There are one or two tweaks to be made to the cover
Here’s a sneak peek at one of our Doctor ‘divider pages’ (artwork by the amazing Deborah Taylor)…
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Whovian12
August 24th, 2013 - 11:11amThe website has changed! You can’t download or buy the book anymore!
booboo
August 24th, 2013 - 11:18amsomething went on, not sure what
cyberman2
May 28th, 2013 - 8:13pmbooboo i was going to try and put on my thoughts of the doctors but didnt get time. can i still do that or just get my name down
booboo
May 28th, 2013 - 9:06pmi think there is still time
cyberman2
May 29th, 2013 - 6:57pmthanks
ParadigmDalek1325
May 28th, 2013 - 1:48pmI’ll be a companion! 🙂
the astronaut of death
May 27th, 2013 - 9:06pmim a compangion!
Sam Bentley
May 27th, 2013 - 4:01pmChristian, as at least one of my pieces id going to be in the book, I was wondering; is the book only going to be available to purchase online, or will it be shipped out to certain stores? And do we have any idea on a price?
Thanks!
Sam Bentley
May 27th, 2013 - 4:02pmsorry, Lewis, I always do that and call people by there surnames if their surname can be a first name also. Sorry, I meant LEWIS aha!
Andrew
May 27th, 2013 - 12:30pmAs I contributed to this book, I’ll definitely be buying it. Will it only be available to buy as a proper book for a limited time, or will it still be available to buy for the rest of the year at least?
Lewis Christian
May 27th, 2013 - 3:48pmHey Andrew,
Once the book’s published, it’ll be there for… well, forever. No plans to take it down 🙂
Andrew
May 27th, 2013 - 9:47pmAlright awesome. I’ll probably buy it towards the end of the year. Any idea on a price?
Booboo Jr
May 26th, 2013 - 9:28pmOne of my reviews has made it into this which I’m very pleased about.
DavidH
May 25th, 2013 - 10:09pmLooking forward to this, I have a few reviews in it 😀
Money is a bit tight though, so I might only go for the free PDF
Dalek The Supreme
March 9th, 2013 - 3:03pmhappy that my favorite Doctor (Matt Smith) is there.
Sam Bentley
March 9th, 2013 - 3:22pmJust about… Or at least a guy in a fez aha!
Lewis Christian
March 28th, 2013 - 10:44pmWe kept them off the cover as we didn’t want to risk it looking in any way like an official book. But there are several Daleks inside, never fear!
11matt
May 25th, 2013 - 11:21ami sent in a piece of writing i hope i have made it into the book
Oodkind25
March 6th, 2013 - 7:07pmIs it still to late to enter?
Esterath
March 2nd, 2013 - 12:40amSent in a review for City of Death…
Sam Bentley
March 2nd, 2013 - 12:53amUmmm I’m pretty sure he has finalised everything from Hartnell to half of Tennant… Sorry but I doubt that will make it into the book now… Maybe you should review The Bells of St John when it airs?
Sam Bentley
March 2nd, 2013 - 12:10amYes! So, I just got a tweet from Lewis telling me that my Closing Time review will be in the book, but we don’t know about the art yet… Either way I’m in the book! Woo!
Esterath
March 2nd, 2013 - 12:14amI think I’ll contact him about my art!
Sam Bentley
March 2nd, 2013 - 12:24amHe did say that he has seen my website and I have ‘a real talent’! I really hope he does include at least one if my drawings – preferably the Matt Smith one which was in DWA – but even if he doesn’t include one, he likes my work and my name and review’s going in the book so alls good for now!
Sam Bentley
March 2nd, 2013 - 12:33amHe has also just told me that all the artwork which isn’t featured in the book will be in a gallery om the website, which is fine with me if my stuff doesn’t make the ‘final cut’!
Esterath
March 2nd, 2013 - 12:36amI contacted him aswell! Heres what he said:
Hey! 🙂
Thanks for the kind comment. Means a lot! Unfortunately I can’t say what artwork will and won’t be in the book. It all depends on stuff like word counts, and what works. If we have long submissions, we won’t have artwork simply because we can’t fit them in. In some cases, we fill a lot of space with artwork. It changes depending on what we have etc.
But any you send in, or have sent in… if it isn’t in the book, the plan is to have a proper gallery on our website to show it all off so people can still have a look at all the amazing work 🙂
I had a look at your site, too, and it’s great! Especially like the drawings of Series 7 and the comic (are you ever going to do more of the comic?)
Anonymous
March 3rd, 2013 - 12:33pmi also sent him an email about my art work sadly its not in but
he did say i can a review series 7 part2 episode with artwork
so as soon as the new cyberman story airs im reviewing
better get drawing
the funky whovian
March 4th, 2013 - 11:54amI would assume that sams art would get in the book, cos its so cool! I sent in a pic of the new tardis console room but lewis hasnt replied yet.
mjwho
February 28th, 2013 - 10:39pmi would just like say thank you to lewis for this amazing event its been great to be a part in the doctor who world (book)
i shall treasure this forever thank u for this great opportunity
we all shall remember this amazing event all thanks to you well done 🙂
drwhofan4ever
February 28th, 2013 - 5:00pmi cannot remember if i put a review in? 😆
Tardis’nt
February 28th, 2013 - 3:32pmi hope my sontaran experiment review is in it!
Dalek Sec
February 28th, 2013 - 4:01amCool cover, I’m a bit dispointed of the lack of Daleks on it through. But never mind the supreme beings of the universe, This cover is really freakin awesome, and by the looks of it the book will be too.
mjwho
February 28th, 2013 - 10:32pmyeah no daleks:(
i think they should have got a few fans to dress up as there Favorite doctor who character and used that as an cover would look cool
HarryReeves2000
February 27th, 2013 - 5:57pmHopefully my Night Terrors review is in there!
HarryReeves2000
February 27th, 2013 - 5:58pmand my name!
DuckandGrouse
February 27th, 2013 - 6:05pmand my wedding of river song review!!
Sebatron
February 27th, 2013 - 10:20pmAnd my Asylum of the Daleks and Vampires in Venice reviews!
HarryReeves2000
March 3rd, 2013 - 7:04pmYES WE ALL HOPE SO IT WOULD BE SO COOL FOR OUR NMES IN A BOOK!
HarryReeves2000
March 3rd, 2013 - 7:05pmYES WE ALL HOPE SO IT WOULD BE SO COOL FOR OUR NAMES IN A BOOK!
Commander Syjikera
April 4th, 2013 - 6:38ami sent in a Spearhead From Space, Asylum of the Daleks, Power of Three, End of Time, The Angels Take Manhattan reviews, hope one of them gets in, wonder what the art’ll be
Esterath
February 27th, 2013 - 4:32pmHope my artwork is in it.
Chris
February 27th, 2013 - 5:53pmWould the E-mail you if you it did?
Esterath
February 27th, 2013 - 7:39pmDon’t know yet.
Sam Bentley
February 27th, 2013 - 4:21pmLooks great, I hope that my ‘Closing Time’ review or my drawings feature in it!
Tardis’nt
November 24th, 2012 - 10:05pmhow can you get this?
Anonymous
November 23rd, 2012 - 6:57pmhow do you know whether to put your name on the companions list or not? eg do you get sent an email or something???
HarryReeves2000
December 16th, 2012 - 12:41pmNo at the bottom of the page there is a list of names.