Right now I’m working on a lot of covers for a lot of great books and I’ll unveil them here as I’m able. The holidays have flown by. Everyone in the blogosphere is doing their Year-In-Review thing right now. It’s the end of 2006 and I’m swamped, but I’d like to step back and offer…
Busy month over here, so I’m just now getting to post about this. It’s fun reading people’s Best-of-2006 book selections. It’s even more fun when you see your own work listed. Case in point: Andy Wolverton’s 2006 Literary Year-In-Review. He lists COVER STORY: THE ART OF JOHN PICACIO as one of his favorite non-fiction books…
I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it officially here in the blogosphere — the sf/f field owes a big thanks to Mark R. Kelly for his terrific work as the administrator of Locus Online’s annual, ongoing cover art gallery for the science fiction/fantasy literary field. I suspect that if you’re reading this, you’re probably…
Those words are never a prelude for anything good, but thanks to Philip Nutman, Chris Kern, Al Kaufman, and Anya Martin, they are now. Go visit Up Against The Wall, a fresh new webzine with features about print, music, and video. They just uploaded their latest edition and it features a brand-new interview with me,…
MonkeyBrain Books has just released a fresh new edition of the Rudy Rucker adventure classic THE HOLLOW EARTH, with cover illustration and design by me. Note that on Amazon.com and other online venues, you may see a placeholder cover that differs (radically) from the one you see here. Safe to say, I’m glad the final…
‘Tis the season….according to Amazon.com, they currently have only five copies left of COVER STORY: THE ART OF JOHN PICACIO, but they promise more are on the way. However, when their next batch arrives is anybody’s guess. So if you’re thinking about ordering the book from Amazon in time for the holiday season, you might…
The second book of David R. George III’s STAR TREK: CRUCIBLE trilogy is now available in stores everywhere. This one is CRUCIBLE: SPOCK — THE FIRE AND THE ROSE, and it’s a mass market paperback from Pocket Books. As with CRUCIBLE: McCOY, I did the cover illustration honors, and when this cover is connected with…
Nice way to kick off December! (Or technically, finish November.) COVER STORY: THE ART OF JOHN PICACIO is Bookpeople’s Top Shelf Pick for the month of December. BookPeople is three stories of literary retail goodness located in the heart of Austin, Texas, and it’s the state’s largest independent bookstore. All of their copies of the…
Andrew Wheeler just reviewed COVER STORY: THE ART OF JOHN PICACIO over at his blog, The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. He’s the Senior Editor of the (US) Science Fiction Book Club, and I marvel at his efficient, daily consumption of massive amounts of genre reading. The COVER STORY review is thoughtful and well-considered,…
I’ve been meaning to post a little something in memory of the great Jack Williamson. According to Locus Online, memorial services will be held Thursday in New Mexico. I recounted this anecdote in my art book, but here’s the short version. A couple of years ago, Amazing Stories Magazine approached me for a feature called…