Now You’ve Arrived
That’s what my pal Sean Lackey jokingly said in an email this morning. He alerted me to the fact that I now have my own Wikipedia page. How cool! Many thanks to VJD for creating it.
Metatemporally Speaking…
Here’s a look at the full wraparound jacket for Michael Moorcock’s forthcoming THE METATEMPORAL DETECTIVE from Pyr. Front cover illustration and design by me, as well as spine art, and the overall jacket design is by Nicole Lecht. Pyr’s latest newsletter features a few words from me about the book. It’s available to anyone who…
The 20-Year Reunion
I generally try to keep non-professional stuff to a minimum over here, but this crosses over somewhat. So I attended my 20-Year High School Reunion this past weekend (for the record, Oliver Wendell Holmes High School in San Antonio). I didn’t want to go, but my longtime friend Tom Kustelski talked me into it. Very…
CANTICLE in Czechoslovakia
That’s what Walter M. Miller Jr’s classic A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ looks like in Czechoslovakia, courtesy of Laser Books. I’m not sure when this edition was released, but it was sometime within the last several months. Pleased to see my cover artwork (which first appeared on the USA/Eos trade paperback edition) also make it into…
Nice company
Thanks to Diana Gill of the mighty Eos, for this heads-up.New York Times best-selling author Douglas Clegg interviewed by Shelf Awareness: Q: Books you’ve bought for the cover:A: Any books with covers by John Jude Palencar, Caniglia or John Picacio. In fantasy and horror fiction, the cover artists are superb. Thanks, Doug. 🙂
SON OF MAN / Rough Sketch
Here’s the just-completed rough sketch (8.5″ x 11″, pencil on bond) for the wraparound cover for Pyr‘s forthcoming edition of Robert Silverberg’s classic SON OF MAN. It seems a little strange to publicly display in-progress work while I’m still working out that job for a client. I doubt I’ll make a habit of this in…
Raves for Michael Moorcock
Rave reviews coming in for Michael Moorcock’s THE METATEMPORAL DETECTIVE from Pyr (forthcoming, late October). Lou Anders has posted some over at Pyr’s blog, as well as a brand-new interview with Mike, courtesy of The Fantasy Review.
MonkeyBrain Sale / Final Days
Reminder: If you’ve been meaning to check out MonkeyBrain Books’ 2-for-1 September Sale, only a few days remain before October comes calling. If I didn’t already own almost everything they publish, I’d be breaking out the checkbook myself. For instance, if you don’t already own Jess Nevins’ THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASTIC VICTORIANA, no time like…
STAR TREK: DS9 / TEROK NOR
Here’s a triptych I recently completed for Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books. I submitted it to the publisher earlier this month, and thanks to some enterprising Trekkies, it’s already generating cyber-buzz. So I’ll share it here. Forthcoming in 2008, Pocket will release an eagerly-anticipated Terok Nor trilogy chronicling the Cardassian occupation of Bajor and the pre-DS9…
Bookloons & Booksluts
Two reviews for Sheri S. Tepper’s THE MARGARETS (Eos), available in stores now in hardcover: A rave, courtesy of BookLoons (reviewed by Hilary Williamson), and a mixed review over at Bookslut (reviewed by Adrienne Martini). The Bookslut review kindly mentions the cover as “lovely”. Unfortunately, because of the publisher’s mixup with the cover credit, Bookslut…