Jan 11
Click for full imageNothing says, ‘I’m one hundred percent pure man,’ than a glowing sword, blonde curtains and a cape with some red velvet lining. We’ll have him charging towards the reader on his horse, waving his sword and smiling manically. Make sure the fonts have at least three layers of bordering!
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January 11th, 2010 at 9:49 am
I can’t actually make out his face too well with the quality of the picture. But it does look like quite the impressive grin.
January 11th, 2010 at 11:11 am
The font makes it look like the ‘Oaths of Gold’ title has eaten its Readybrek. Or does that cultural reference date me too badly?
In related 1980s-era news: ‘Paksennarion’ … Pacman scenario?
January 11th, 2010 at 11:20 am
Yeah there’s a very cheesy grin in full bloom there.
Adam, are you implying that Eliz Moon may have committed copyright theft in this book? I mean now you mention it, I can already see several similarities to Pac-man. Someone phone Atari
The font has certainly had its Weetabix, twice.
January 11th, 2010 at 11:30 am
Yea what the hell is ‘Paksennarion’. I’m having trouble even trying to pronounce it.
January 11th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Says volumes about this cover that the main point of conversation is the word ‘Paksennarion’.
January 11th, 2010 at 3:59 pm
I’m aware that things far away look smaller than the same object up close (i’m a jeanyus). However, that castle does NOT look like its far away. The “Hero destined to become a legend” has just galloped out of a LEGO castle, i’m convinced of it.
Also, the horse is about to slip on the word ‘deed’.
Back to our main point: the word ‘Paksennarion’, my new theory is that its actually a novel about Michael Parkinson and his ‘deed’. The editor just mised the typo. Maybe he had a child with Mrs Pac-man? Who knows…
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:06 am
Paksenarrion is a woman. Duh. And given how the previous book was all about overcoming depression and despair, it was damned reassuring at the time to see a fighting grin on her face.
February 3rd, 2010 at 10:18 am
Wait… that’s a girl? Someone will have to edit the picture tags! 🙂
February 4th, 2010 at 9:02 am
Phew, I’m glad thats not a man. I was being confused by Satan with uncomfortable thoughts…. ahem… anyway… moving on…
Maureen, you seem to have read a fair few of our featured books. You have any more in your collection you’d like to take a picture of and send in?
March 29th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
It looks like Paks doesn’t care for the huge black/gold font either and is trying to cleave it from her book.
The Paks trilogy was actually some of the best fantasy I’ve ever read, and I have a generally low tolerance for serious fantasy. It has a gritty, realistic tone I like, perhaps because the author was a woman in the military for many years, and a different kind of story; the somewhat reluctant evolution of a down-to-earth Paladin. I wish I got the same feeling from her science fiction.
She has a new fantasy book coming out which I’m rather looking forward to.
April 22nd, 2010 at 8:37 pm
I have seen the cover to all parts in the Paksenarrion trilogy. The interesting part about it is that the main character is (supposedly?) on all of the covers, but she (yes, she) looks different on each one of them! In part one she actually looks cool, with long, flaming red hair… What the feck happened???
November 10th, 2010 at 9:40 am
and Paks was always blonde. Have you seen the new covers? ick . Also the covers for EMoon’s two collections (same stories, but each as a couple that weren’t in the other so you need to have both…
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July 31st, 2013 at 6:31 pm
Paks was the stereotyped oxen muscled nordic farm gal in looks and build. Except that in the story, she had brains. Not something that was normal. Ms Moon is a United States Marine.
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Ox dies, hook up daughter to plow type muscles type of stereotyping.
April 16th, 2015 at 12:25 am
‘Oh, bother! I forgot to link the o’s in the author’s last name.’
‘…and it’s too late to change it. Can you make the name as unobtrusive as possible? Maybe distract the reader with the title?’
‘I can try. Can I experiment with o’s in the title just a bit?’
‘Sure, why not.’
April 16th, 2015 at 7:15 pm
Denise Crosby appears to be enjoying a White Christmas, for once.