Cover Art
Dragon Re-Born E-Book Cover
Dec 1st
Last month, I posted the cover art to the Wheel of Time’s second book, The Great Hunt. The whole series is being re-released in e-book form, with newly commissioned cover art that is significantly better than its former. I’ll keep posting the new artwork as it become available.
Today Tor posted the artwork for the Dragon Re-Born. Though not as powerful The Great Hunt’s, this piece of artwork by renowned artist Donato Giancola still blows most fantasy covers out of the water.
Shall we compare them side-by-side again? I’ll admit, I miss the dirfy glowing sword…
The Great Hunt E-Book Cover
Nov 11th
Tor.com’s blog just recently posted these very impressive images that will be used for the E-Book release of Robert Jordan’s second Wheel of Time book: The Great Hunt.
The artist, Kekai Kotaki has a proven track record doing concept artwork for the various releases of the MMMORPG Guild Wars. He’s a real artist, with a truly amazing collection of artwork on his website.
Unlike, for instance, the artwork for the same book from 1990: almost twenty years ago:
And then it’s re-release in 2004 as two books:
I know the Wheel of Time is huge now. Just last week, the most recent installment, the Gathering Storm, hit #1 on the NYT Bestseller list. Brandon Sanderson, my idol right now (that I can’t stop talking about) was chosen to take over the series after the death of Robert Jordan, thus combining both Sanderson and Jordan fans together in a whirlwind of nerddom.
But beyond all this, I’m hoping that Tor is starting to say something with these new, amazing, elegant covers. Perhaps that fantasy fans are sick of looking at the same exact, poorly drawn cover in the same tired “fantasy” style? I sure hope so.
Fantasy Book Cover Trends
Aug 19th
An interesting study has been done down at Orbit publishing dealing with something I’d like to start getting into; the trends of fantasy book covers. Though I am curious if books with swords on the cover statistically sell better than those with unicorns…