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
Jan 07
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Most covers only hint at cleavage. Where we will succeed will be in the tactic of placing an actual topless women on the cover! Riding horse back along an alien desert. Oh, and she is being lead by a sort of Apache Indian bloke with an extremely long sword. And yes, I mean a literal sword.
Thanks to Craig!

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • blood • Bob Fowke • cleavage • cloaks • damsel • dude • horses • loincloth • Magnum Books • Philip José Farmer • sword • Tarzan Series • whip it good
Dec 25
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And it thus cameto passthat the Mighty Lord Weber created the one thing which could instantly bring tears to the eyes of mortal men. Together around the campfire elves sat covered in blankets, drinking mead, talking to their wenches andwieldeda singlelute. But most importantly and what would soon become legend,they hadridiculous ears.
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas Day!
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Good Show sir

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Tagged with: Baen Books • Bahzell Bahnakson series • booties • cloaks • damsel • David Weber • dude • elf • fire • forest • Good Show Sir • handheld beverage container of Germanic origin (tankard) • Larry Elmore • lute • music • once you see it • shuriken of approval • sword
Dec 15
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Just have some muscled dudes on horses, pretty much looking exactly the same. Where we will shine, my good apprentice, is in the title and border. Our colour scheme will be brown and the links will be many. And we’ll have a horse or two leaping over the border giving the viewer a 3D experience! Uhhh well, some sort of experience.

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Tagged with: archery weapons • Blacksheep UK • bladed weapons • capes • cloaks • dude • Everien series • horses • mullet • muscles • once you see it • Orion Books • shortbow • surprised horse • sword • Tricia Sullivan • Valery Leith • war
Dec 02
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There is nothing in this world that makes anything look better than shiny gold highlights around text and generally shiny boxes around huge fonts. What will you draw? Oh uh, three guys on a mountain edge, don’t forget the magic! Fantasy isn’t fantasy without a magic fireball or two.

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • bracers • Chronicles of the Raven series • cloaks • daggers • damsel • dinosaur • dude • font problems • Fred Gambino • James Barclay • magic • male skirts • Orion Books • sword • Wizaaaaaaaard!
Dec 01
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Nothing says satanic worship than naked women releasing themselves from their robes. So just nakedness, the whole upside down cross thing and uh… those Jewish candles? They’re satanic right? And of course nakedness.
Published 1973
Thanks to CSA! You devil you!

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Tagged with: architectural framing • candles • cleavage • cloaks • cross • damsel • Dennis Wheatley • devil's dumplings • Herb Schmitz • Hutchinson • magic • masks • nip slip • starkers • tasteful smoke • witch
Nov 17
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We all know what men want. Hunky muscles and tight underwear. No? Uh, strange stone monoliths? No? Leopard skin capes. No? Three horns coming out of his skull? What, seriously, no? Alright, have them all, but add two naked women caressing him. Classy eh? Actually, don’t answer me this time.
Thanks to CSA!

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Tagged with: A.E. van Vogt • cleavage • cloaks • damsel • dude • geometric oddities • glow • horns • muscles • once you see it • Panther Books • suggestive • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
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 19
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A hunky swordsman, an old Robin Hood character, and a strange female sorceress. Now, because our trio are wanting to keep themselves undercover, give the hunky one a Zorro mask to cover his eyebrows and nose. No-one will ever know his true identity. No-one!

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Tagged with: arch • archery weapons • cloaks • dude • longbow • masks • mighty moustache • R.A. Salvatore • Saga of the First King series • staff • sword • Todd Lockwood • Tor Books
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
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