Beautiful Things
I've been sitting on this awhile, though some of you know this already, or have kindly pointed it out to me. ;)
First point of order, though, is introducing Kiba, also known as Kiba The Wonder Pup, seen here and in my icon. She is a "goldendoodle" (Golden Retriever + Poodle) and comes to us from Dee Gerrish in North Carolina. Mac has always loved other dogs, and we'd been making do with him getting his buddy fix at EveryDog Day Care, but now he has a puppy of his very own. She is unbearably cute and has therefore been appointed my new Chief Marketing Officer.
Following that, Kiba instructs me to say: In case you didn't know from copious posting on other forums (fb, twitter, the usual), my first fantasy novel (!), SWORD OF FIRE AND SEA, was picked up by Pyr Books in May and will be published in June 2011. As you can see from the tweet, Editorial Director Lou Anders (of much fame this year and others) describes it as "Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion meets Avatar: The Last Airbender", and more recently has been throwing in a dash of Final Fantasy, which suits me swell.
And now its gorgeous cover is viewable by all, courtesy the heroic efforts of Lou and Prometheus design staff (would love to use specific names but don't yet know if they like being publicly credited!). It's been amazing watching this come together and I'm beyond thrilled to be able to share it. The artist is Dehong He, a digital artist from Singapore who works by day on MMORPGs. He was perfect for a bunch of reasons, first of course being his phenomenal talent (you can see more of his artwork here). Beyond that, I've always loved the vibrant style of Asian MMO art, as well as the unique way they show humans -- faces, costumes, everything. Being multiethnic myself, to me their art is distinctly international in a way much western art is not. I've also always been an anime fan, and know that there are many anime fans who also read fantasy, so have wondered if a cover that "speaks" to anime fans with its art style would recognize that crossover more.
Needless to say I am entirely biased, but assume my current "omg" level to be in the gazillions, so if you scale that down for bias this is still really awesome. Here is the link to the Amazon page (where you can zoom in and see a larger version), and without further ado:
If I have anything to do with it I'm sure you'll be seeing it everywhere soon... ;)
First point of order, though, is introducing Kiba, also known as Kiba The Wonder Pup, seen here and in my icon. She is a "goldendoodle" (Golden Retriever + Poodle) and comes to us from Dee Gerrish in North Carolina. Mac has always loved other dogs, and we'd been making do with him getting his buddy fix at EveryDog Day Care, but now he has a puppy of his very own. She is unbearably cute and has therefore been appointed my new Chief Marketing Officer.
Following that, Kiba instructs me to say: In case you didn't know from copious posting on other forums (fb, twitter, the usual), my first fantasy novel (!), SWORD OF FIRE AND SEA, was picked up by Pyr Books in May and will be published in June 2011. As you can see from the tweet, Editorial Director Lou Anders (of much fame this year and others) describes it as "Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion meets Avatar: The Last Airbender", and more recently has been throwing in a dash of Final Fantasy, which suits me swell.
And now its gorgeous cover is viewable by all, courtesy the heroic efforts of Lou and Prometheus design staff (would love to use specific names but don't yet know if they like being publicly credited!). It's been amazing watching this come together and I'm beyond thrilled to be able to share it. The artist is Dehong He, a digital artist from Singapore who works by day on MMORPGs. He was perfect for a bunch of reasons, first of course being his phenomenal talent (you can see more of his artwork here). Beyond that, I've always loved the vibrant style of Asian MMO art, as well as the unique way they show humans -- faces, costumes, everything. Being multiethnic myself, to me their art is distinctly international in a way much western art is not. I've also always been an anime fan, and know that there are many anime fans who also read fantasy, so have wondered if a cover that "speaks" to anime fans with its art style would recognize that crossover more.
Needless to say I am entirely biased, but assume my current "omg" level to be in the gazillions, so if you scale that down for bias this is still really awesome. Here is the link to the Amazon page (where you can zoom in and see a larger version), and without further ado:
If I have anything to do with it I'm sure you'll be seeing it everywhere soon... ;)