Apr 01
And now for the real cover:
You might remember seeing this previously on Good Show Sir: Sunrunner’s Fire
Stutzman comments: So here is the Australia cover for that very same book (found in a used bookstore in the US), which is hideous beyond words. Same general elements: dragon, wizardly dude in robes, rocks. The execution, however… oh, my eyes.
Thanks very much to Stutzman!

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April 1st, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Telegraph review: Medievil Village People.
The concert on Skull Mountain got off to a shaky start. The improved YMCA lacked choreography of previous versions. The wizard got the Y down pretty well, even throwing in some lightning bolts to spice it up (injuring several members of the audience). Unfortunately, the dra-GON went with a C…
April 1st, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Is that camera flare, or is the dragon actually wearing a sort of Afro of shining magical energy?
April 1st, 2010 at 1:12 pm
The wizard does get bonus points on this one for having baby skulls on his belt.
The dragon kinda reminds me of something Godzilla would fight. If one ever watched such things.
April 1st, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Proving once again that art direction at mainstream publishing houses and Mad-libs are exactly the same thing.
May 3rd, 2010 at 4:04 am
That’s a shame, because I actually quite like the American cover.
May 3rd, 2010 at 11:37 am
“Book 3 in the epic Dragon Prince series”
The Usenet group rec.arts.sf.written used to have an in-joke about SWORD OF THE DRAGON PRINCE being the perfect Extruded Fantasy Product novel title.