{"id":301,"date":"2008-06-13T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/06\/13\/czech-mates\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:47:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:47:59","slug":"czech-mates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/06\/13\/czech-mates\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech Mates"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p> $\"\"$ <\/a>Just arrived in the mail today from the Czech Republic \u2014 comp copies of the Czech editions of A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ, as well as a Dan Simmons<\/a> short story collection, both sporting cover illustrations by yours truly. Laser-Books<\/a> is the publisher, and both printings look great. (Thanks, Martin!) The design for the Simmons collection is especially interesting\u2026.they did a little inset of my full illustration and combined it with a detail from the same illustration, along with another detail used as a muted background. Wow \u2014 I\u2019ve never seen a cover design like that, but it works well. The printing is cool because the big detail of the face and the full inset illustration are both printed gloss, while the background is printed matte. I like it! I\u2019ll now proudly shelve these along with my Hungarian edition of CANTICLE<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42\n

One last note \u2014 sharp-eyed folks might notice that the cover illustration for the Simmons collection originally appeared on the cover of the US edition of George Zebrowski\u2019s MACROLIFE<\/a>, published by Pyr<\/a>. Laser really wanted to use this illustration, and even though I have the legal copyright to resell the illustration for other foreign usages, I\u2019m really careful about reselling images for books that are in-print elsewhere. I was reluctant to sell the Czech rights for the illustration, but when I ran the notion by Pyr\u2019s editorial director Lou Anders<\/a>, he gave his blessing. So thanks, Lou\u2026.if you wouldn\u2019t have given the green light, this wouldn\u2019t have happened.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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