May 07
Click for full image
OK, I’m spinning my cover creator wheel and its landed on, volcano… good. Spin again… horse-riding knight. OK, I’m throwing the action dice and it’s landed on… being eaten, nice. Another spin… T-REX, sounds awesome! In the background we will have a… prison wall and… a guard post.

Loading...
Tagged with: anatomical issues • artist in the comments • Baen Books • bladed weapons • David Mattingly • dinosaur • Eric Flint • fortress • horses • knights • lava • Marilyn Kosmatka • once you see it • shuriken of approval • surprised dinosaur • surprised horse • sword • time travel • volcano
May 01
Click for full image
HOLY mother of HADES I have it! Ready? How about a big muscled LEOPARD MAN! Holding his rifle and roaaaaaaring off to one side….. YAWHAAT!?!? No I don’t want to see his leopard genitals! Put in him some futuristic combat armor, but no leggings.. his crotch is right there!!! God can only dream of how good this will be……
also known as Prescription For Chaos
(This is special! Have a great Bank Holiday weekend! Well, for those in the UK! 🙂 )

Loading...
Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Baen Books • cat people • Christopher Anvil • Clyde Caldwell • Eric Flint • fantastical rock star • Good Show Sir • inadequate armor • lynx people • once you see it • stallone pose
Apr 30
Click for full image
Musketeers are sooo awesome… Could we get one on the cover, drawing his sword, with some huge glowing red energy eminating from the blade which in turn is revealing a guys evil green eye and obvious evil twin goatee?

Loading...
Tagged with: Baen Books • bladed weapons • energy • evil • Gary Ruddell • Joel Rosenberg • mighty moustache • once you see it • punnecessary • ruffles • sword
Apr 28
Click for full image
You remember in the Falklands when the British fleet attacked the Argentinians? Just like that, but imagine the Argentinians were reptiles! And have a large reptilian eye staring at the ass of a busty not-very-clothed women who’s casting chain lightning. I know… I’m physically excited too!

Loading...
Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Baen Books • BEHIND YOU! • buxom • energy • eye-yi-yi • John Ringo • lightning • lizard • lizard people • once you see it • Posleen War series • shuriken of approval • Tom Kratman • Unknown Artist Institute
Apr 22
Click for full image
How about a guy with an offensive mullet playing the banjo with a guy beside him playing a flute… and in the background have their brand of futuristic country folk summoning ghosts! It’s almost too simple….

Loading...
Tagged with: Baen Books • banjo • Bedlam's Bard series • flute • ghosts • lightning • Mercedes Lackey • mullet • music • Rosemary Edgehill • Stephen Hickman
Apr 21
Click for full image
Let me paint a picture for YOU my friend. Image the world but not as we know it… where man evolved from… CATS!!! No not the musical! Ah forget it just put a couple of ridiculous cat men with spears on the cover with a huge werewolf thing in the background ready to pounce.

Loading...
Tagged with: Andre Norton • anthropomorphism • Baen Books • cat people • omnibus • once you see it • pole weapons • space ships • spear • strange creature • werewolf
Apr 02

Click for full image
I’m not looking for more than a typical cover. Boy, wearing an anorak and holding some sort of gold phallus meets girl, naked and curled up in a glowing ball of energy.

Loading...
Tagged with: Baen Books • damsel • magic • magical orbs • Spider Robinson • starkers • Stephen Hickman • strange artifact
Apr 01

Click for full image
WEELLL!! How about a guy in a space ship pointing at some futuristic map. Hmmm, yeah, you are right, it’s just not sci-fi enough! How about putting in someone with a straight bowl hair cut, and a huge werewolf creature with botox lips?!

Loading...
Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Baen Books • cat people • epic thoughts • Haircut 100 • Lois McMaster Bujold • space ships • Stephen Hickman • strange creature
Mar 31
Click for full Image
Art direction: Give me a big pasty vampire, fresh from his WoD LARP, and an appartition of the guy that played Q from Star Trek. The nerds will love it, I know!

Loading...
Tagged with: Arthurian legend • Baen Books • BEHIND YOU! • Good Show Sir • Jamie Murray • Nigel Bennett • P.N. Elrod • vampire
Mar 16

Art direction: Sorry? Oh, I was thinking that I’d like a really realistic drawing of a prince looking fellow on a big sci-fi chair, holding a nerd pouch and motioning towards some magic crystals. Don’t forget to put the ruby dice in there! After all, that is the name of the book!

Loading...
Tagged with: Baen Books • Catherine Asaro • dice • dude • font problems • gemstones • Kurt Miller • Nebula award • paging John Galliano • pouch • prince • Saga of the Skolian Empire • shuriken of approval • throne
Recent Comments