Category Archives: covers

New covers, and recommend me romantic SF

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

Here are the old and new front covers for The Maker’s Mask and The Hawkwood War and the new back covers for both. Click to embiggen or view as a gallery. I wanted the new blue covers to give a … Continue reading →

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New covers coming

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

It’s over two years now since I did the covers for The Maker’s Mask and The Hawkwood War, and while I did the best I could at the time, I think I could probably do better. (Also, someone linked me … Continue reading →

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Firebrand cover art sneak preview

Posted on June 29, 2012 by

Today I bought stock art for the Firebrand cover and started messing around with it. Here’s a sneak preview: Yes, it’s a headless woman, but since the book actually does involve the heroine complaining at one point that getting skirts … Continue reading →

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Progress!

Posted on September 3, 2010 by

There is progress being made. Honest. The story so far: I thought I’d order a proof copy of The Maker’s Mask before I got into the whole trying to buy an ISBN thing. The proof copy arrived. I took one … Continue reading →

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Look at us, we’re cover plus

Posted on August 22, 2010 by

I’ve bitten the bullet, bought image rights from istockphoto.com, and been playing around with cover images. This one is for The Maker’s Mask, from a photograph by Peter Zelei and a piece of concept art from loops7: And this one … Continue reading →

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Get ahead! Get a horse.

Posted on July 14, 2010 by

Things I never expected to find whilst searching stock photo archives for possible cover photos: A series of photos of cyborg girls kissing cyborg horses. Whatever the book is that that would make a good cover for, I think I’m … Continue reading →

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The ancestry of a novel

Posted on July 9, 2010 by

Novels, like people, have ancestors. Of course, they have ancestors in the ‘I would not be writing these precise books if I hadn’t read Pern and Darkover and the Vorkosiverse and Georgette Heyer’ sense, but I don’t quite mean that. … Continue reading →

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