Good times in Houston this past weekend at Apollocon. Pyr’s Lou Anders was the Editor Guest of Honor this year, so I couldn’t miss the celebration. It was Lou’s first GOH opportunity and I’m sure he’ll have many more in years to come. Did panels with Lou, Chris Roberson, Patrice Sarath, Alexis Glynn Latner, and…
Nominations for ASFA’s 23rd Annual Chesley Awards are due June 30. As of yesterday, Science Fiction Awards Watch offers illustrators a comment forum to inform voters where their 2007 art can be seen for consideration. I’m filling out my own Chesley ballot right now and admittedly, I’m straining for ideas in categories such as Unpublished…
Here you go — my final cover art for Random House/Del Rey‘s forthcoming trade paperback, ELRIC: THE SLEEPING SORCERESS by Michael Moorcock. If you’re keeping score at home, this will be Book Three in Del Rey’s six-volume Elric series and it’ll be a December release. Here’s a few pertinent details for the first three books:ELRIC:…
Zoom….already halfway through the month of June….just realized I have a copy of Delos Books‘ 2008 calendar here in my studio and look what just happens to be the featured art for the month of “Giugno”. Of course, this illustration of mine first debuted here in the US as the wraparound cover for Lou Anders‘…
Tag from John Denardo at SF Signal who clearly must have plenty of free time on his hands (and clearly thinks I have the same). 😉 So the latest meme going around has the following instructions: “To participate, you grab any book, go to page 123, find the fifth sentence, and blog it. Then tag…
They’re still going strong and still one of the finest independent bookstores in the US. Right now, they’re trying to build a cafe next door to their store and in an age of chain bookstores, e-books, and Amazon Kindles, I believe indy stores like Borderlands need all the support we can give them, or we’re…
Just arrived in the mail today from the Czech Republic — comp copies of the Czech editions of A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ, as well as a Dan Simmons short story collection, both sporting cover illustrations by yours truly. Laser-Books is the publisher, and both printings look great. (Thanks, Martin!) The design for the Simmons collection…
Congrats to all John W. Campbell Award Finalists (Jay, Lou, Ian….great to see your works in there, fellas). There are two awards in science fiction that are called “the Campbell Awards”, and this one is the juried award for Best SF Novel, presented at the Campbell Awards Conference in Lawrence, Kansas (not to be confused…
World Fantasy Award nomination ballots are due June 30 (voting info/ballots here, if you click “Nominations Ballot” in the sidebar). John Klima has a nice rundown of his choices, and he’s got some terrific ones in all categories, including Life Achievement. His post inspired me to type up a specific one about the Life Achievement…
First the Mind-Melding….(thus, the appropriate Spock cover by yours truly pictured left). SFSignal has posted the following Mind Meld question: What do you feel is the primary purpose of a book cover: To accurately reflect the story or to visually ‘sell’ the book? How do you balance these two ideas when creating a cover? Responses…