World Fantasy Award-winning author Jeff Vandermeer is one of the featured columnists for Amazon.com’s blog Omnivoracious. His latest post there spotlights ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS and quizzes me about my illustration work for the book. Check it out. Also, check out RevolutionSF where the folks there are giving away free autographed copies of the…
Spotted on the shelves, shiny and new, at 3pm, Borders Books, Alamo Quarry, San Antonio, TX. According to Amazon.com, Michael Moorcock’s ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS wasn’t supposed to release until tomorrow. However this weekend, Moorcock’s Miscellany said the book was selling at Forbidden Planet, London (thanks, Guy) and Barnes & Noble in Virginia (thanks,…
One more glimpse of the new Elric drawings….and then next week ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS finally releases in bookstores across North America (and cyberspace). Also next week, I’ll have details on a cool gallery of new Elric drawings over at RevolutionSF. “Elric and the Horn of Fate” — interior illustration from Michael Moorcock’s forthcoming…
Was out in California the last few days, so I’m catching up, but something I wanted to mention: Irene Gallo has posted a Tor podcast featuring her, Lou Anders, Jacob Weisman, Tom Kidd and yours truly. It’s a panel discussion from the ’07 World Fantasy Con, on the subject of book covers. Check it out.
Some talk soup about a few notable books that I’m proud to have done covers for: * Congrats to Bruce McAllister and Golden Gryphon Press. McAllister’s THE GIRL WHO LOVED ANIMALS is amongst Graham Sleight’s Top Five Books of the Year, according to his Year-End Round-Up in the latest issue of Locus Magazine. * Congrats…
“Elric summons the Wind Giant” — interior illustration from Michael Moorcock’s forthcoming ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS, due out February 19 from Ballantine/Del Rey. Pencil on Crescent illustration board, 11″x14″. (p.s. Happy Birthday, Mama. :))
Today it arrived. Traci’s holding it. Ballantine/Del Rey kindly sent me an advance copy of ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS (thanks, Betsy!). Author Michael Moorcock raved about his yesterday. I’ve been anxious to see it ever since. This book’s different. A lot of my 2007 went into this one because I did so many interior…
“Elric & Cymoril” — interior illustration from Michael Moorcock’s forthcoming ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS, due out February 19 from Ballantine/Del Rey. Pencil on Crescent illustration board, 14″x11″.
“The Fire Giant” — another of my interior illustrations from Michael Moorcock’s forthcoming ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS, due out February 19 from Ballantine/Del Rey. Pencil on Crescent illustration board, 6″x12″. Bonus — a short Elric music mix I looped for inspiration through the hours working on the Elric book. 1. “Carmina Burana: I. O…
Just heard this news from George Mann of Solaris….SCIFI NOW, one of the UK’s major SF media mags, has released their list of the Best Books of 2007. Michael Moorcock’s THE METATEMPORAL DETECTIVE is amongst their top five. Congrats, Mike! Congrats to Pyr and Solaris as well! The list:1) HALTING STATE (Stross) / Orbit2) STEALING…