Nov 23
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OH OH OH! Let’s have a half naked man grasping his magic electrified sword around waist height. That sounds suggestive? Of course it is, he’s holding a sword right next to his baby maker. A ha ha ha. Don’t forget to overload the whole cover with text, a lot of text, in all shapes and sizes.

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Tagged with: Alyssa Day • Berkley Books • bladed weapons • dude • electricity • font problems • magic • muscles • sixpack abs • sword • Unknown Artist Institute • Warriors of Poseidon series
Nov 20
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You know what you thought? You thought, you’d seen everything anyone could possibly do with a dragon. Well, you’re wrong. Three words for you to eat today, ‘Dragons In Space’! Oh yes, and trying to decipher the controls of a space ship! I mean, dragons can read, right?

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Tagged with: Anne McCaffrey • Corgi Books • dragon • planets • space • space ships • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher • WTF
Nov 19
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A heavily armoured sword wielding knight on a metal horse attacks some smoking animals. Why are they smoking? For effect my dear boy! And possibly magic. Anyway, make sure those animals are mean! I want red eyes and snarls!

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Tagged with: Ace Books • bear • bladed weapons • Christopher Stasheff • glowing eyes • horses • knights • lion • magic • once you see it • robo-horse • shields • Stephen Hickman • strange creature • sword • Warlock series • wolf
Nov 18
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Hmm, putting on our thinking caps here. ‘Servant of the Dragon’ …. Servant …. Dragon… DRAGON.. of course! Lets have a huge scary, bird! It makes complete sense. We’ll have wizards, swords men and damsels fighting it. One word to descibe my idea, epic!

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Tagged with: archery weapons • bird • bladed weapons • daggers • damsel • David Drake • Donato Giancola • electricity • font problems • giant birds • longbow • Lord of the Isles series • magic • strange creature • sword • Tor Books • Wizaaaaaaaard!
Nov 17
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We all know what men want. Hunky muscles and tight underwear. No? Uh, strange stone monoliths? No? Leopard skin capes. No? Three horns coming out of his skull? What, seriously, no? Alright, have them all, but add two naked women caressing him. Classy eh? Actually, don’t answer me this time.
Thanks to CSA!

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Tagged with: A.E. van Vogt • cleavage • cloaks • damsel • dude • geometric oddities • glow • horns • muscles • once you see it • Panther Books • suggestive • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Nov 16
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A hunky half-naked muscle encrusted man standing in a strange mist, while casting a magic fireball from his hand. The book’s called flame, so how could we not have one! Though, to go one step further, have him looking thoughtfully at the fire in his hand. That way people will think he’s all sensitive and deep.

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Tagged with: Berkley Books • dude • fire • Jean Johnson • lens flare • magic • magical orbs • muscles • nonsensical shadows • sixpack abs • The Sons of Destiny series • Unknown Artist Institute
Nov 13
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You know something that won’t date badly? Long hair with fringes and dudes with long gelled back hair. I can see it now, it will be the combination of every eighties sci-fi created by man. With this, we’re sorted well into the late 1990’s!

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Tagged with: Ace Books • damsel • dude • fringe • Good Show Sir • lovers • Michael Herring • Sharon Lee • space • space ships • Steve Miller
Nov 12
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Now calm down, you heard me correctly. An angry lizard carrying a magical globe on its back which shows a picture of a Victorian lady. A man, with a wolf’s head I might add, stands peering in to the globe has his hand reaches towards it. What’s so strange about that eh?

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Baen Books • damsel • Darrell K. Sweet • lizard • magic • magical orbs • Mercedes Lackey • urns • wolf people
Nov 11
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Realism is our key to success. I’m talking about a dude in a space suit and a very large dome helmet. The face inside must be like a photograph so people can really imagine the scene is real. Don’t forget the explosions, lasers and space robots!

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Tagged with: Allan Cole • bubble helmet • casually walking away from an explosion • Chris Bunch • dude • explosion • frickin laser beams • helmet-cam • ill-fitting spacesuit • once you see it • robots • shoulder pads • space • space ships • space station • Sten series • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher
Nov 10
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You know what I love about Ireland? All the dwarfs, the mysterious dark riders on horses, the barmaids that insist on carrying a bow and arrow with them, the extreme landscapes and, of course, the rainbows so I know where to find my pot of gold. We should turn that into a cover someday, my boy.

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Tagged with: archery weapons • beard-wielding • bladed weapons • Book of the Painter series • bracers • castle • cloaks • daggers • damsel • dwarf • Headline books • rainbow • shortbow • Stephen Bradbury • sword
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