Aug 20
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Look I know it’s unusual but I want an actual lynx. It doesn’t stand up like a human, it doesn’t hold some sort of laser rifle, nor does it appear from a space ship. I just want it pouncing across the cover with a princely guy in a white cape leaping with it, while he grasps his sword. That’s not as cheesy right?

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Tagged with: Ace Books • bladed weapons • castle • cloak • daggers • Donato Giancola • leap • Sharon Shinn • strange animals • Twelve Houses series
Aug 07
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Some artists define a generation: Picasso, Michelangelo, Paul Klee… I want you to be inspired by their works and create something for me. Think of these things: hookers, cats, bats, stereotype vampires, a real man with long cheesy hair holding his long sword. And to make it art, we place them all…. between worlds! Together, my friend, we will define the next generation!

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Tagged with: Bantam Books • bladed weapons • castle • Chronicles Of The King's Tramp series • cleavage • glow • hunk • Kevin Johnson • long haired men • magic • swords • Tom De Haven • vampire
Aug 06
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Two words for you…. pirates vs kinky police officers. Well you know what I mean! Have the officers in long knee highs and holding a large batons. Have a large magic beam hitting a stereotypical pirate in the chest and him grimacing in pain. It’s almost too perfect.

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • blunt weapons • club • daggers • Darrell K. Sweet • L. E. Modesitt Jr. • lasers • magic • pirates • Saga of Recluce • swords • Tor Books • uniforms
Aug 04
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You know the two things I love: big bosomed women and lizards. Have them woven in an epic battle, lizard versus women as she tries to slice at it with her magical blade. Don’t go all crazy on me though, concentrate on the boobs.

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Tagged with: Baen Books • bladed weapons • cleavage • damsel • dragons • fire • John Lambshead • lizard • magical weapon • swords
May 26
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A huge hunky man with bulging muscles and a loincloth that just about covers his ass with a sword symbolically hanging down from it. Oh and have him holding a huge spear with his taught sweaty arms.Wait – better make this a little less fabulous – add in a dragon that he might be about to kill… or seduce….
Thanks to CSA!

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • dragons • Gary Ruddell • hunk • loincloth • long haired men • muscles • omnibus • paging John Galliano • pole weapons • Robert Jordan • spear • swords • Tor Books
May 12
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Remember how sweet Blade was? With all his black clothes, long trench coat, his cool body armour, his array of silver stakes and the mean emotionless yet cheerly philosophical face? Better make him caucasian just to be on the safe side.

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Tagged with: a Blade by any other name • Ace Books • bird • bladed weapons • daggers • Dave Dorman • Laws of the Blood • Susan Sizemore • vampire
May 07
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OK, I’m spinning my cover creator wheel and its landed on, volcano… good. Spin again… horse-riding knight. OK, I’m throwing the action dice and it’s landed on… being eaten, nice. Another spin… T-REX, sounds awesome! In the background we will have a… prison wall and… a guard post.

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Tagged with: anatomical issues • Baen Books • bladed weapons • David Mattingly • dinosaur • Eric Flint • fortress • horse • knight • Marilyn Kosmatka • shruiken of approval • swords • time travel • volcano
May 05
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Remember Arthurian legend where the magical pixies danced around Excalibur while some young redheaded wench reached out to grab the sword from a ghostly but awesome beard-wielding king? No? Well, that’s what I want, and you’re not getting out of those damn chains till you draw it!!!

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Tagged with: Arthurian legend • beard-wielding • bladed weapons • damsel • Daw Books • fairies • Gordon Crabb • Irene Radford • Merlin's Descendants series • swords
Apr 30
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Musketeers are sooo awesome… Could we get one on the cover, drawing his sword, with some huge glowing red energy eminating from the blade which in turn is revealing a guys evil green eye and obvious evil twin goatee?

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Tagged with: Baen Books • bladed weapons • energy • evil • Gary Ruddell • Joel Rosenberg • mighty moustache • punnecessary • swords
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