Steve Hickman was kind enough to email me a JPEG of his pencil layout of the cover for Overthrowing Heaven. At the risk of tormenting readers--oh, hell, let's be honest: for the joy of tormenting readers--I have to say the sketch was pretty nifty. It's also unlike the One Jump Ahead and Slanted Jack covers in a very obvious way that I won't mention. The cover is even reasonably true to a great (at least for me; you'll have to decide for yourself later) scene in the book.
I can only hope I finish the first draft of OH before he completes the painting of the cover. Right now, it's a tough race. I'm well over 100K words, but I'm far from done.
When Steve finishes the art and Baen has done the initial sales stuff with it, I'll see if I can persuade Toni to let me post the image here. I doubt I can succeed, and she should certainly withhold permission if my posting it would cost any sales, but I figure it can't hurt to ask.
Cool stuff.
End of torment.
That's pretty mean. Careful. Us readers can be very devious when it comes to taking revenge...some of us are VERY creative.
ReplyDeleteSorry for being mean. I didn't intend to do that. No creative revenge, please.
ReplyDeleteThis is my first post since I just recently found this site. The books are fantastic and I really hope there are many more. I saw that John Ringo had proudly endorsed your work so I found them and I'm certainly not disappointed I did. I now have found another way of disposing of some of my income. I also like the journal considering I'm not much of a blog person. Anyway keep up the great work and I look forward to visiting the site on a regular basis......Chris.....
ReplyDeletePS......Who are you kidding, you did mean to be mean but in a I know something that you don't sort of way....hahah....
Actually, though I hate to interfere with reader torture, I'd prefer you spread the cover image around like confetti. For the cover art itself, sans type, permission needs to come from the artist. --Toni, publisher o' Baen
ReplyDeleteHi, Chris,
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining me on this odd blog journey. I'm glad you enjoyed the previous books and hope you like the next one.
I was trying to tease, not to be mean, but I have to admit that the line between the two is mighty thin sometimes.
Okay, folks, you saw Toni's instructions, and she's the boss. As soon as we have a cover image for Overthrowing Heaven--and I have no idea when that will be--I will show it here.
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