{"id":402,"date":"2007-07-09T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2007\/07\/09\/the-metatemporal-detective\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:49:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:49:23","slug":"the-metatemporal-detective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2007\/07\/09\/the-metatemporal-detective\/","title":{"rendered":"THE METATEMPORAL DETECTIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/METATEMP1.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\/04\/METATEMP1.jpg?w=680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a>I just turned in the final cover work for Michael Moorcock\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Metatemporal-Detective-Michael-Moorcock\/dp\/1591025966\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/103-3076821-0695830?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1184015268&amp;sr=8-1\">THE METATEMPORAL DETECTIVE<\/a>. This will be a hardcover release from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyrsf.com\/\">Pyr<\/a>, and it\u2019ll be in bookstores this October. Pyr mastermind Lou Anders just posted a nice detailed writeup about the book over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyrsf.com\/blogpage.html\">Pyr\u2019s blog<\/a>. Check it out. The book chronicles the adventures of Seaton Begg and his arch-nemesis Count Zodiac the Albino (perhaps better known as the legendary Elric of Melnibone).\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/METATEMP2.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\/2007\/07\/METATEMP2.jpg?w=680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a>Funny thing happened at my wedding in March, about ten minutes before I got married: I was discussing the front cover with Mike, and he offered a comment that inspired me to create a separate piece of spine art for the book. So for your persual, above is the finished cover with art and design by me, as well as the final illustration sans type, and below, the spine art featuring Rose Von Bek. The spine art is designed to wrap partially around to the back cover.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/METATEMP3.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\/2007\/07\/METATEMP3.jpg?w=680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a>This was a lot of fun, and it\u2019s always a pleasure to work on a Moorcock book. Now back to work over here\u2026off to do more interiors for another Moorcock masterwork, the forthcoming Del Rey release ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just turned in the final cover work for Michael Moorcock\u2019s THE METATEMPORAL DETECTIVE. This will be a hardcover release from Pyr, and it\u2019ll be in bookstores this October. Pyr mastermind Lou Anders just posted a nice detailed writeup about the book over at Pyr\u2019s blog. Check it out. The book chronicles the adventures of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901,"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-402","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\/04\/METATEMP1.jpg?fit=450%2C666","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-6u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","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=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}