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
Oct 02
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I need sci-fi mixed in with something suggestive! Yeah baby!! I am talking about tight space suits that make you wonder how they ever got into them. Huge racks and huge packs, if you know what I mean! Guns shaped suggestively like a… you know… *giggles* Whatever you do don’t mess it up with something like giving the women a perm. Are you listening to me?

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Tagged with: Baen Books • bubble helmet • cleavage • computers • damsel • dude • frickin laser beams • Haircut 100 • ill-fitting spacesuit • Jerry Pournelle • Larry Elmore • moon • once you see it • planets • shuriken of approval • space • suggestive • super soakers
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 28
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In my life time, I’ve seen dragons vs lasers, dragons vs swords, even dragons vs man-tigers. Where haven’t we gone you ask? Well my dear friend, let me but whisper these words into your ear and pray they don’t start to bleed with pleasure. Dragons vs Concordes! That’s right, with shoulder pads and eighties hair cuts!

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Tagged with: Baen Books • damsel • dragon • dude • goblet • Haircut 100 • Jon & Lobo series • Mark L. Van Name • shoulder pads • Stephen Hickman • throne
Sep 25
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Excuse me, Sir, there is a phone call for you.
Art Director: Is it ready?
Mysterious caller: It’s more glorious than you could ever imagine.
Art Director: You remembered the…
Mysterious caller: Vampire, Minotaur, Robot, Damsel, Roman man in toga with sword, Angel and death star?
Art Director: Don’t forget Saberhagen.. he must be in there to! Mu hahahahahahaaha!
Mysterious caller: MU hahahahahahahaahhahaaha
Art Director: No… only I may laugh! Mu hahahaahahahah!
Mysterious caller: ………………………

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • author on the cover • Baen Books • BEHIND YOU! • Berserkers series • bladed weapons • Boris Brazil series • damsel • Dracula series • explosion • Fred Saberhagen • Good Show Sir • knights • Lost Sword series • minotaur • omnibus • robots • sword • the pencil is mightier than the sword • toga • vampire • wings
Sep 08
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Right, with a title like that I mean it’s self explanatory, we’ll put a dragon there. What? A bikinni clad busty women with a bow and arrow? Well I don’t see….. and a space ship? But..but….oh alright then, but I’m going to give the women some furs to cover her shame. And by shame I clearly mean shoulders! Yeahhh! High five anyone? Anyone….?

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Tagged with: archery weapons • Baen Books • BEHIND YOU! • bikini • bladed weapons • bracers • capes • cleavage • Clyde Caldwell • damsel • dragon • Duke Edmund Talbolt series • forest • furs • John Ringo • loincloth • mountains • perspective problems • shortbow • space ships • sword
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 01
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So, for the cover I was thinking “fear”. What are the two things you are most afraid of attacking this building right now? A small space ship firing a pretty standard laser, that’s scary, right? But what, get this, if it came with a friend? A giant legionary‘s sword! If that cut into your building you’d defecate yourself right there and then!

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Tagged with: author in the comments • Baen Books • bladed weapons • font problems • frickin laser beams • Gary Ruddell • Oscar L. Fellows • planets • space ships • sword
Aug 28
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So with a title like this, one has to be careful. I was thinking of a sweeping landscape and a storm brewing on the horizon. Silhouetted over the coming clouds and setting sun would be some hands in chains and…… Sorry? You just want busty sword welding chicks and a chained male. Ha! Who would approve that?
(Slightly breaks our rules as this is probably comedy – but it is another bank holiday weekend for UK readers! Have fun!)

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Tagged with: Baen Books • bladed weapons • bracers • Chicks In Chainmail series • cleavage • cloaks • damsel • Esther Friesner • font problems • inadequate armor • jeans and a t-shirt • Larry Elmore • loincloth • omnibus • once you see it • shields • sword
Aug 26
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You know what always bugged the hell out of me about the whole north verses south thing? No dragons or magic crystal orbs. The north frees the south of: dragons! Right there on the cover, with King Lincoln watching the battle on his orb! It almost makes me proud to be Americaglish… or whatever.

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Tagged with: Baen Books • beard-wielding • David Mattingly • dragon • epic conflict • fire • Harry Turtledove • horses • magic • magical orbs • once you see it • pole weapons • War Between The Provinces series
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