May 14
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Stevyn Comments: I’m ashamed to say that I was the artist in this case. A terrible cover for what is possibly the worst fantasy book ever written.
And with such great lines in this book such as, ‘The effeminate albino pursed his thick lips in that certain way to suggest he was male, but homosexual.’
Read more about this on Stevyn’s website here: http://stevyncolgan.blogspot.com/2008/07/you-really-must-take-vista-be-vigil.html
Good Show Sir! Thank you for sending this in.
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Tagged with: Aaron Jones • cloaks • dude • gibberish title • Stephen Moryk Colgan • strange creature • WTF
May 07
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Richard’s Art Direction: Ok, I want the devil playing chess on a life-size board with warriors from different periods of history. Don’t forget to throw in a few other random characters, at least one man must clad in leather and a scarf and find a spot for a woman in a bathing suit with a parasol. Then make it from the perspective of an opposing chess piece. Yeah, those should all come together nicely.
Excellent! Thanks to Richard!
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Tagged with: Baen Books • beard-wielding • Bill Kerby • bladed weapons • C.J. Cherryh • Chris Morris • cleavage • cloaks • daemons • daggers • damsel • David Drake • David Mattingly • dude • George Foy • gun • Heroes in Hell series • Janet Morris • leather • loincloth • Lynn Abbey • male skirts • Michael Armstrong • mighty moustache • Nancy Asire • skeletons • space ships • sword
Apr 30
Well it’s reached that time again were here in the UK we are blessed with bank holidays! So for those like myself who will be relaxing with an extra long weekend, here are some honourable mentions.
These covers break our explicit and hard kept rules, which are enforced with an iron fist. These are part of a franchise (this time of adventure choice novels), but nonetheless each of them sports an excellent cover so I hope you enjoy them.
Also just to say thanks to everyone who has been sending me in covers! We’ll slowly get through them all so keep an eye out and I promise they will appear at some stage.
Have a great weekend for those benefiting from it!
To face the evil rabbit turn to page 8
To run away turn to page 57
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Tagged with: Armada books • ax-wielding • bladed weapons • Brian Salmon • castle • cloaks • daemons • David Jackson • evil • forest • Gary Chalk • Honourable Mentions • Jamie Thonson • Jason Hook • Joe Dever • Jones • Lone Wolf Books • Lone Wolf series • maces • Mark Smith • planets • robots • shields • shuriken of approval • space ships • Sphere Books • sword
Apr 22
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Harry Comments: According to the author, this cover was commissioned for another book but somehow ended up on hers. It’s very loosely appropriate: there is a sword, and there is a hero, but he is quite explicitly gay.
Superb! Thanks Harry!
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Tagged with: Alan Craddock • bladed weapons • bracers • cleavage • cloaks • damsel • devil's dumplings • Diane Duane • dude • lens flare • Magnum Books • spear • starkers • sword • war
Apr 08
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Jen comments: I was going to talk about his lack of spacesuit, or his overabundance of cleavage, or the protruding rock in space. Then I noticed that one of the strange ghost-images was smoking a cigar, and all words failed me.
Thanks to Jen! Good Find!
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Tagged with: aliens • Baen Books • cleavage • cloaks • dude • frickin laser beams • Keith Laumer • muscles • Rosel George Brown • space • Unknown Artist Institute
Mar 22
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Women love their horses and I’m pretty sure everyone grows up wanting that pony all their life. So that’s what we’ll give ’em. Except give the horse a certain quality, an almost surprised expression as he stares off into the vast distance. And give the L&D letters of the title a black fill. I can’t see that one back-firing.
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • bracers • cloaks • damsel • Dark Horse series • font problems • forest • Fred Fields • glowing eyes • horses • horses with hairstyles • Mary H. Herbert • once you see it • sword • TSR Books
Mar 10
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Holy crap. We need something to distract from that bright silver font we’re using. So, how about a guy with an eye patch posing with weapons and a women doing the very same thing. Put a moon in the background, and by background I mean most of the cover.
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Tagged with: ax-wielding • BEHIND YOU! • black number one • bladed weapons • cloaks • daggers • damsel • dude • eyepatch • font problems • Hawk & Fisher series • Jon Sullivan • moon • Orion Books • proportional issues • shiny oh so shiny • Simon R. Green • space • sword • waistcoat • WTF
Feb 26
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Gwad Darn it, we know from experience realism sells! If you haven’t got some models to pose for you in costume it’s just not going to sell. We’ll grab their attention with a kid hiding behind a sword fighters cape. Then we can make it shiny…
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Tagged with: Baen Books • bladed weapons • cloaks • cutlass • evil children • font problems • Larry Dixon • Mercedes Lackey • Roberta Gellis • shiny oh so shiny • sword
Feb 23
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Nothinggets the attention ofwomen more than standing in the midst of an ice cavern with little clothes and showing off your bare chest. Holding your short sword in an inspiring way while standing by your Viking boat sleigh. That’s right. A boat sleigh.
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • Boris Vallejo • cloaks • damsel • dude • Eric Iverson • Gerin the Fox series • Harry Turtledove • muscles • sword • Trojan Books
Feb 18
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Every man, or lord of the lands, needs a hairy companion. And what would they do together I hear your mind ask. Well they would go hill walking, dress in lovely princely clothes and watch the sun set together over the lands of… America? Wait… what?
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Tagged with: beard-wielding • bladed weapons • cloaks • dude • Greg Call • long haired men • pointing • Ron Sarti • spear • sword
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