{"id":431,"date":"2007-01-14T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2007\/01\/14\/more-best-of-2006-love-for-cover-story\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:49:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:49:44","slug":"more-best-of-2006-love-for-cover-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2007\/01\/14\/more-best-of-2006-love-for-cover-story\/","title":{"rendered":"More &#8220;Best of 2006&#8221; Love for COVER STORY"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p>Been busy over here, so I\u2019m a little late on this. Revolution SF contributors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/article.html?id=3432\">Peggy Hailey<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/article.html?id=3423\">Rick Klaw<\/a> have each recently released their lists for \u201cWhat Is Best In Life\u201d for 2006. I\u2019m pleased to say that both have selected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksite.com\/texis\/scripts\/oop\/click_ord\/showdetail.html?sid=3401&amp;isbn=1932265163&amp;music=&amp;buyable=0&amp;assoc_id=&amp;spring=\">COVER STORY: THE ART OF JOHN PICACIO<\/a> amongst their favorite books from this past year. Thanks, folks! I was also pleased to see books by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/whatever\/\">John Scalzi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisroberson.net\/ramble.html\">Chris Roberson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/14theditch.livejournal.com\/\">Jeff Ford<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaslairbookstore.com\/books\/Science-Fiction-and-Fantasy\/410\/Cross-Plains-Universe:-Texans-Celebrate-Robert-E.-Howard\">Scott Cupp<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=2208340\">Mark Finn<\/a>, amongst their choices. Peggy is not only RevolutionSF\u2019s esteemed book editor, but she\u2019s also a buyer for one of the finest independent bookstores in the country, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookpeople.com\/\">BookPeople<\/a>. Rick is Editor Emeritus over at RevSF, and is currently working on a biography of his famous grandfather Irving Klaw, \u201cthe King of Pin-up\u201d.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/Finn2006.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/Finn2006.jpg?w=680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><br>As for this photo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/193226521X\/sr=1-4\/qid=1153684829\/ref=sr_1_4\/102-1743100-8844952?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books)\">BLOOD &amp; THUNDER<\/a> author Mark Finn channels his inner barbarian and displays the cover (illustrated by Yours Truly) of his highly-acclaimed Robert E. Howard biography. Check out Mark\u2019s own edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/article.html?id=3415\">\u201cWhat\u2019s Best in Life (And The Tree of Woe) 2006.\u201d<\/a>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been busy over here, so I\u2019m a little late on this. Revolution SF contributors Peggy Hailey and Rick Klaw have each recently released their lists for \u201cWhat Is Best In Life\u201d for 2006. I\u2019m pleased to say that both have selected COVER STORY: THE ART OF JOHN PICACIO amongst their favorite books from this past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1021,"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-431","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\/2007\/01\/Finn2006.jpg?fit=570%2C285","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-6X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","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=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}