Sep 14
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With books today, you know what people are too obsessed with? That’s right, art! Why not (and you are going to love this) just have a female model dressed up as a pirate, teasing a little as she holds her swords to her lofty chest. With the addition of a terrible font we’ll draw a completely accurate picture of how things were like in ‘ye olden days.’

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Tagged with: Berkley Books • bladed weapons • bracers • cleavage • daggers • damsel • Elizabeth Vaughan • Epic of Palins series • sword • Unknown Artist Institute • waistcoat
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 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 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 31
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With such a great confulence of fantasy and romance, we must voyage into a realm of highest art and… ahhh, who am I kidding. Busty red headed women holding her huge dagger! Do not, on your life, forget the glow.

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • cage • Cin Craven series • cleavage • crucifix • daggers • damsel • glow • Jenna Maclaine • magic • St Martin's Press • Ting!
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 27
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Right, we’re in a recession, we need a cover that sells! Hmm, all black cover? You, sir, are fired! We need exploding cities in the midst of being attacked. A woman in a yellow and black striped catsuit, no wait… an alien woman! She can be holding a dagger while she peers into the foreground, completely ignoring the chaos behind her. If that doesn’t sell I’ll jump right out that window.

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Tagged with: aliens • author in the comments • bladed weapons • casually walking away from an explosion • catsuit • clouds • daggers • damsel • DAW Books • Edward Willett • explosion • gibberish title • planets • space ships • Steve Stone
Aug 25
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Hey! You there beside the water cooler. What books you into these days? Narina? Narninia? Fine, let’s say a lion. And you with the coffee, what do you like? Chicks with swords. Awesome, slap them both on there. Best lens flare the hell out of the background though. I think we need something to grab people’s attention!

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Tagged with: Ace Books • bladed weapons • Chad Michael Ward • city • damsel • glow • glowing eyes • Ilona Andrews • Kate Daniels series • lion • magic • once you see it • strange creature • sword
Aug 20
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Look I know it’s unusual but I want an actual lynx. It doesn’t stand up like a human, it doesn’t hold some sort of laser rifle, nor does it appear from a space ship. I just want it pouncing across the cover with a princely guy in a white cape leaping with it, while he grasps his sword. That’s not as cheesy right?

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Tagged with: Ace Books • bladed weapons • castle • cloaks • daggers • Donato Giancola • leap • lynx • moon • Sharon Shinn • strange creature • Twelve Houses series
Aug 07
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Some artists define a generation: Picasso, Michelangelo, Paul Klee… I want you to be inspired by their works and create something for me. Think of these things: hookers, cats, bats, stereotype vampires, a real man with long cheesy hair holding his long sword. And to make it art, we place them all…. between worlds! Together, my friend, we will define the next generation!

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Tagged with: Bantam Books • bats • bladed weapons • castle • Cats! • Chronicles Of The King's Tramp series • cleavage • dude • glow • Kevin Johnson • long haired men • magic • sword • Tom De Haven • vampire
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