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 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 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 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 06
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A princely boy sits on some ruined steps while a dragon leans downwards in a yawn of sorts. Standing next to them, a white bearded wizard in his long purple robes who is motioning to the sky with other dragons flying gracefully in the sky. No stereotypes here whatsoever … none … zip … nadda … zero… null … uhhh *coughs*

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Tagged with: Bantam Books • Death Gate Cycle series • dragon • dude • magic • Margaret Weis • Stephen Youll • Tracy Hickman • Wizaaaaaaaard!
Oct 05
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Well, we’ve got the red on there, ’cause of fire being in the title. We’ve got the epic dragon and the merlin esk wizard with his magic orb. But we’re missing something. Something that’s going to make someone pick up the book and think, ‘this is the one.’ Of course!! Surround the title in an awesome gold shiny goodness!

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Tagged with: dragon • Dragon Prince series • fire • font problems • magic • magical orbs • Melanie Rawn • Michael Whelan • Tor Books
Sep 07
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Trench coats are really in, so I want a big leather one in there on a guy who looks like he’s right out of Top Gun. Have him walking along with his dog, his shirt tucked neatly into his jeans, carrying a magic sword and the typical explosions in the background. Who’s he kissing? Uh..I guess the dog.

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Tagged with: architectural framing • bladed weapons • casually walking away from an explosion • dog • dude • horses • jeans and a t-shirt • leather • magic • Roc Books • strange creature • sword • Thomas E. Sniegoski • Unknown Artist Institute
Sep 04
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OK, spinning my cover creator wheel again! We have… dragons, plural – nice! The dragons are (throwing my action dice)… shitting out fire, awesome! Hmm, they are also… (roll)… carrying… (spin)… a woman in a Persian rug, touch! And in the background this time we will have a….. pyramid… awww just like the books name!

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Tagged with: Baen Books • Bob Eggleton • damsel • Dave Freer • dragon • Eric Flint • magic • masons? • once you see it • over sideways and under on a magic carpet ride • pyramids
Sep 03
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I was thinking of a beautiful misty icy snow covered landscape with, *cough* , a couple of Eskimos looking upon a dragon frozen in a tower of ice. That’s what I want, what more can I say? …Wait – make it so purple it makes your eyes bleed!

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Tagged with: daemons • dragon • furs • magic • Peter Elson • Red Fox Books • snow and ice • staff • Victor Kelleher
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