Oct 14
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Good Show Sir Art Direction: You know what type of reader suffers in the world of sci-fi/fantasy? Men! We need something for the men! So just put a redhead vampire chick with a huge rack right there on the front cover, holding her shotgun. It’s about time that we have something men can enjoy unlike those, dragons, swords, guns, lasers…….space ships…..oh…

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Tagged with: Baen Books • candles • Chris Csejthe series • cleavage • Clyde Caldwell • damsel • gun • leather • once you see it • skeletons • skulls a-poppin' • strapping outfit • sunglasses • vampire • Wm. Mark Simmons
Oct 08
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WELLL! How about Lois sitting on a rocking chair right next to a lovely log fire with a couple of cats curled up nicely beside her. To amplify the warmness we’ll have three people in space-age uniforms standing right best her, one of them holding a laser rifle. And for the finishing touch, put a mustache and bandana in there too.

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Tagged with: Baen Books • Cats! • Darrell K. Sweet • fire • gun • John Helfers • Lillian Stewart Carl • Lois McMaster Bujold • mighty moustache • once you see it • proportional issues • puffy shirt • rifle • shuriken of approval • Stalin • strange creature
Sep 30
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I’m thinking book covers are normally so unrealistic. They have things that are so unbelievable it would make your mother cry. Not us! I propose, a photographic quality drawing of a military man placing his shined boot on the head of his latest kill: a giant ant insect alien creature. It will be just like they are back in the great war…. with aliens…

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Tagged with: author in the comments • bladed weapons • Chronicles of Isambard Smith series • giant ants • giant insects • gun • mighty moustache • Myrmidon Books • possible pastiche • sword • Toby Frost
Sep 29
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So I climbed over the mountain peak and made my way through the snow storm. I was close to death and feared I may never see another living soul again. Then I stumbled on the temple, and the great master. There he leaned forward from his mediation. Placing a single flower petal in my hand he whispered, ‘shoulder pads’. It changed my life.

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Tagged with: Baen Books • damsel • dude • gun • Jon & Lobo series • Mark L. Van Name • once you see it • paging John Galliano • shoulder pads • space ships • Stephen Hickman
Sep 18
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Think of your target audience, 15 year old boys and 39 year old single males still living with their parents. So that would be, a women with an unimaginable rack walks in space across….liquid alien gooey stuff….and then just throw in a red computer grid and some flying male/female symbols. Sorted! We’ve pretty much got a winner!
Thanks to Mairi! 🙂

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Tagged with: Alex Stewart • cleavage • damsel • double trouble • ewww • frickin laser beams • gun • New English Library • omnibus • planets • spectacular space chart
Sep 17
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Art shouldn’t be confined to one side of a book, so span it across front AND back! And I am talking full-on epic here. Guy carried by a lizard horse dragon thing, shoots his laser at… wait for it….. dwarfs with spears riding on the backs of kangaroos! It will be a Sci-Fi craze! I’m sure it will just be as popular as man-tigers… Ahahahaha……………..
Thanks again to Chris R! You’re a legend!

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Tagged with: aliens • Brian Edwards • castle • frickin laser beams • gun • kangaroos • once you see it • Panther Books • pole weapons • Poul Anderson • ranseurs • space ships • strange creature
Sep 10
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Word association game: say the first two words that come into your head when I say “Sci Fi”. Laser guns? WRONG! It’s cat people! Eat your words! Though, lasers… not bad actually. Add them in with some weird cloaked alien holding a gun. Might help distract from the fact we have friggin’ cat people on there.

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Tagged with: aliens • anthropomorphism • architectural framing • C.J. Cherryh • cat people • Chanur series • DAW Books • frickin laser beams • gun • Michael Whelan • once you see it • strange creature
Aug 21
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Hey guys, well I have the chips, beers, d20’s, cigars ….. and so I told them for the cover just put a large cybernetic cat man pondering meanly into the distance whilst standing in the midst of an exploded wasteland. *coughs* Why are you looking at me like that? …. Oh right, I forgot the dip!

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Baen Books • cat people • crotch armor • cybernetics • fire • Good Show Sir • gun • Hal Colebatch • It's Howling Time! • Larry Niven • Man-Kzin Wars • orange number nine • Paul Chafe • Poul Anderson • Stephen Hickman
Aug 19
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I’ll admit the only idea I could come up with is: a woman with laser gun cowers backwards with her chimpanzee colleague, who, I might add, should be in a tight leather body suit. Also, throw in a huge red horned daemon bull creature as he hurls himself at them with a loincloth… sorry I mean spear… ah what the hell why not both!?

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Tagged with: Alan Pollack • Baen Books • daemons • gun • loincloth • minotaur • monkeys • pole weapons • space ships • spear • strange creature • Wen Spencer
Aug 17
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OK! Get ready ’cause here comes the cover train and we’re about to jump right on it! One, a hunky topless man holding his huge gun. Two, a post-apocalyptic scene in the background. Three, the author’s name in terrible fonts and way larger than the actual book title. Four, did I mention muscles…mmm, MMM! Wooo woo all aboard!!!!

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Tagged with: Angela Knight • Berkley Books • dude • fire • gun • muscles • nonsensical shadows • Time Hunters series
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