Jul 02
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Art Direction: Hilarious escapade? Well then, no one is going to care what we put on there. In fact lets just put everything we can! Including Centaurs, which I hear are the next big thing. And we’ll have giant people with planets for faces! We’ll stop there but wait till you see what I have in mind for the font!
Published 2001

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Tagged with: centaur • cleavage • cloak • damsel • Darrell K. Sweet • font problems • hunk • magic • Piers Anthony • planets • strange animals • Tor Books • wtf
Jun 29
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Jessie Comments: DUDE. GIGANTIC ALBINO KILLER VULTURE. Does anything else need to be said? Does it really matter if there’s anything else in the picture?
Published 1976
Many thanks to Jessie!

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Tagged with: cloak • damsel • Darkover Series • Daw Books • George Barr • horses • Marion Zimmer Bradley • strange animals
Jun 22
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Sarah Comments: This cover raises a lot of questions. Are those pointed shoes? What’s up with his hands? Do all “galactic Machiavellis” keep the souls of deceased dinosaurs in their cloaks? Why does he look as though a slight breeze would knock him over?
Published 1973
Leggings and a dinner suit. Good look!
Many thanks to Sarah!

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Tagged with: Ace Books • cloak • Jaime Retief Series • Keith Laumer • planets • space • unknown artist • vampires
May 19
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Well after CSA’s comments yesterday with Mr Ellison I noted he said this, “We should post a pic of the Bible tomorrow and see if Jesus posts within 24hours.”
I decided to take him up on that suggestion with this, sent into me about a year ago. And to Mr Ellison, I sent CSA to bed last night without super and I didn’t even read him his nightly install of Harry Potter verses Terminator. Thanks for commenting!
A real cover will be posted later!
Good Show Sir, Good Sir.

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Tagged with: beard-wielding • bladed weapons • bracers • cloak • damsel • font problems • hunk • neo-jesus • Siku • staff • swords
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 • cloak • daemons • daggers • damsel • David Drake • David Mattingly • George Foy • guns • Heroes in Hell series • hunk • Janet Morris • leather • loincloth • Lynn Abbey • male skirts • Michael Armstrong • mighty moustache • Nancy Asire • skeletons • space ships • swords
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 • axes • bladed weapons • Brian Salmon • castle • cloak • 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 • shruiken of approval • space ships • Sphere Books • swords
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 • cloak • damsel • Diane Duane • hunk • lens flare • Magnum Books • spear • swords • 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 • cloak • hunk • Keith Laumer • lasers • muscles • Rosel George Brown • space • unknown artist
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 • cloak • damsel • Dark Horse series • font problems • Fred Fields • horse • Mary H. Herbert • swords • TSR Books
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 • cloak • cutlass • evil children • font problems • Larry Dixon • Mercedes Lackey • Roberta Gellis • shiny oh so shiny • swords
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