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: axes • bladed weapons • damsel • font problems • Hawk & Fisher series • hunk • Jon Sullivan • Orion Books • Simon R. Green • swords
Jan 21
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Nothing sells books better than Jesus! Just look at the sales of the Bible, top seller every year. So we’ll have three crosses on a hill, that’s the Jesus part. Then some guy kneeling next to a bleeding fleshy cocoon, that’s the sci-fi part. With this cover, we’re fulfilling the prophecy! Just kidding, now get me more coffee!

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Tagged with: blue blob of awesomeness • Jim Burns • mainstream religion • Michael Moorcock • Orion Books • SF Masterworks • wtf
Dec 15
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Just have some muscled dudes on horses, pretty much looking exactly the same. Where we will shine, my good apprentice, is in the title and border. Our colour scheme will be brown and the links will be many. And we’ll have a horse or two leaping over the border giving the viewer a 3D experience! Uhhh well, some sort of experience.

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Tagged with: archery weapons • Blacksheep UK • bladed weapons • cloak • Everien series • horse • hunk • muscles • Orion Books • shortbow • swords • Tricia Sullivan • Valery Leith • war
Dec 02
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There is nothing in this world that makes anything look better than shiny gold highlights around text and generally shiny boxes around huge fonts. What will you draw? Oh uh, three guys on a mountain edge, don’t forget the magic! Fantasy isn’t fantasy without a magic fireball or two.

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • bracers • Chronicles of the Raven series • cloak • daggers • damsel • dinosaur • font problems • Fred Gambino • hunk • James Barclay • magic • male skirts • Orion Books • swords • wizard
Nov 09
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Do dragons wash themselves? I guess they’d have to. Who would want to ride on the back of a big stinking dragon, eh? Ah hahaha – so have one in the sea or something, scrubbing away. And have some damsel stumble across him. And though I kinda want them, best not draw any dragon ‘bits’.

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Tagged with: Anne Sudworth • damsel • dragons • Orion Books • Storm Constantine • The Chronicles of Magravandias series
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