Mar 23
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Chess? I’m sure that’s interesting and all but that gives me nothing to work with. No wait.. it does. Pink! Pink everything up, go for the windowed look, and make sure there are lots of things blurred slightly by the light. Maybe they’ll miss out on the chess part completely!

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Tagged with: Arthurian legend • boring • castle • chess • damsel • dude • Futura Publications • Sharan Newman • shields • Unknown Artist Institute
Jan 19
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Eyelashes! We’ll have a dragon with eyelashes, peering over at some wizard reading his dragon magical book. It won’t just be any mage, he’ll have a magical staff! Unheard of I know. And a side parting to make the king of side partings proud. As for the title, make it silver. We have to stand out somehow.

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Tagged with: author in the comments • BEHIND YOU! • books on the covers of books • castle • dragon • evil book • font problems • Haircut 100 • magic weapon • Michael C. Staudinger • once you see it • pole weapons • shiny • staff • TSR Books
Jan 11
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Nothing says, ‘I’m one hundred percent pure man,’ than a glowing sword, blonde curtains and a cape with some red velvet lining. We’ll have him charging towards the reader on his horse, waving his sword and smiling manically. Make sure the fonts have at least three layers of bordering!

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Tagged with: Baen Books • castle • cloaks • damsel • Elizabeth Moon • font problems • glow • horses • magic • sword
Nov 10
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You know what I love about Ireland? All the dwarfs, the mysterious dark riders on horses, the barmaids that insist on carrying a bow and arrow with them, the extreme landscapes and, of course, the rainbows so I know where to find my pot of gold. We should turn that into a cover someday, my boy.

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Tagged with: archery weapons • beard-wielding • bladed weapons • Book of the Painter series • bracers • castle • cloaks • daggers • damsel • dwarf • Headline books • rainbow • shortbow • Stephen Bradbury • sword
Oct 12
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Two fine gentlemen sir! Both of them wearing only the finest apparel that royalty can buy. On top of the highest castle tower pointing into the distance in ponderous thought. Leaving the viewer with a single thought, ‘Health and safety ain’t great in this castle.’

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Tagged with: bird • bladed weapons • booties • castle • clouds • daggers • DAW Books • Inda series • long haired men • Matt Stawicki • once you see it • prince • Sherwood Smith
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
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
Apr 27
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Magical orb, merlin apparition, surprised expression, terrible haircuts, horrific blue robe, cheesy green and gold crest, nerd throne, chains leading to nowhere, potions, books…. huh? Oh I’m just saying random words… think you could get it all in there?

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Tagged with: Ace Books • blunt weapons • bracers • castle • Chronicles of the Deryni series • cloaks • Katherine Kurtz • knights • magic • Matt Stawicki • merlin • staff • throne
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