{"id":246,"date":"2008-12-01T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/12\/01\/the-sleeping-sorceress-spectrum-15\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:47:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:47:03","slug":"the-sleeping-sorceress-spectrum-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/12\/01\/the-sleeping-sorceress-spectrum-15\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SLEEPING SORCERESS + SPECTRUM 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ELRICTSScover.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ELRICTSScover.jpg?w=680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a>Been so busy here that I just realized Michael Moorcock\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Elric-Sleeping-Sorceress-Chronicles-Melnibon%C3%A9\/dp\/034549864X\/ref=sr_1_1\/180-6996281-4729608?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1228139951&amp;sr=1-1\">ELRIC: THE SLEEPING SORCERESS<\/a> is now available. If you\u2019re keeping score at home, this is the third of a six-volume ELRIC trade paperback series from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/delrey\/\">Del Rey<\/a>. I illustrated the cover and interiors for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Elric-Stealer-Chronicles-Emperor-Melnibon%C3%A9\/dp\/0345498623\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/180-3913406-1053659?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1228140111&amp;sr=8-1\">the first volume<\/a>. The great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaluta.com\/\">Michael Kaluta<\/a> did the art chores for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Elric-Tanelorn-Chronicles-Emperor-Melnibon%C3%A9\/dp\/0345498631\/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b\/180-3913406-1053659\">the second one<\/a>. THE SLEEPING SORCERESS features cover art by me and interior illustrations by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperactiveart.com\/\">Steve Ellis<\/a>. \n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/TSOS14.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/TSOS14.jpg?w=680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a>Speaking of Elric, more good news \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spectrum-15-Contemporary-Fantastic-Underwood\/dp\/1599290286\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/186-2721245-8277007?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1228139465&amp;sr=8-1\">SPECTRUM 15: THE BEST IN CONTEMPORARY FANTASTIC ART<\/a> is now available, and one of my Elric interiors was selected by the Spectrum jury for inclusion. The drawing is from the first ELRIC volume, ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS. I call this piece, \u201cElric The Damned.\u201d It\u2019s 11\u2033x17\u2033, pencil on crescent board. If you haven\u2019t checked out the latest edition of SPECTRUM, you owe it to yourself. Arnie &amp; Cathy Fenner have assembled another amazing showcase, and if you know anyone who loves genre art, SPECTRUM 15\u2019s pretty much the best holiday gift I can imagine.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been so busy here that I just realized Michael Moorcock\u2019s ELRIC: THE SLEEPING SORCERESS is now available. If you\u2019re keeping score at home, this is the third of a six-volume ELRIC trade paperback series from Del Rey. I illustrated the cover and interiors for the first volume. The great Michael Kaluta did the art chores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ELRICTSScover.jpg?fit=393%2C588","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-3Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}