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LONGING FOR LONGLEAT

Here is my cover illustration and design for the forthcoming digital publication from John Collier (and myself) about classic Doctor Who exhibitions. This time, it’s the exhibition at Longleat House in Wiltshire, and we’re focusing on 1983, and the infamous “Celebration” event which commemorated the show’s twentieth anniversary. Like our previous books, Longing for Longleat will be a free download in PDF format, available from 1st April (really!).

This cover was quite challenging, as we wanted to continue the same style as Blackpool Remembered, but showing both something which represented the Longleat exhibition and the “Celebration” event as well as fandom.

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Empire’s Child

Here is my illustration and design for Empire’s Child, the début science fiction novel by Nick Lewis.

Nick’s work has previously featured in the two Visionary anthologies published by the British Interplanetary Society, to which I also provided the cover art.

The ebook and paperback editions of Empire’s Child is now available for pre-order on Amazon.

Humanity is old. Long, long ago It re-engineered the Galaxy for its own convenience. Empires have risen, empires have fallen. Technologies close to magic have come and gone.

But the need for cabbages remains. Threnador is one of the poor agricultural worlds supplying food to the richer worlds of the Confraternity, until, one day, Time stops on Threnador. All trade with the Galaxy ceases.

A young woman, Mihana, tries to find out why. Befriending an intelligent, shape-shifting craft, she flies it across her world and beyond. Ride with her and uncover the truth behind a three-thousand-year-old chase whose consequences have shaped her life, and which has treated Threnador as collateral damage.

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Alice Sabo: Station Down

New cover art! Station Down is the forthcoming science fiction novel from Alice Sabo. I’ve worked with Alice long enough now to bypass the concept sketch stage of work and just dive into the final artwork. We always enjoy a fruitful author/artist relationship, which is one of the keys to success of getting the cover art you want on the front of your book.

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Cover art – previously unseen!

Here is a piece of artwork which until now, has never been displayed online. I’ve titled it “Longing” but it was in fact a book cover commission from 2015. I’m hopeful that the book it was intended to grace will eventually see the light of day, but I’ve always been particularly pleased with this piece as it is one that really epitomises my style and approach.

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Terry Grimwood: Interference

My latest cover illustration is for Terry Grimwood’s forthcoming SF novel Interference, which is will be published by Elsewhen Press. For this cover, Terry wanted to depict an alien world with a red, burning sun. The scene is within a city, which is made up of tall, curved featureless buildings.

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Alice Sabo – Circuit Breaker

I recently completed the cover art for Alice Sabo’s new book, Circuit Breaker. It’s the second title in her Children of a Changed World series, and follows the map-based design established with the first book, Willow’s Run.

The main different with this cover was I decided to draw the original map element in ink, rather than digitally.

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The Art of A Changed World – revised edition

My free digital publication chronicling the creation of Alice Sabo’s cover art has been updated.

The newly revised edition of The Art of A Changed World, and now includes the artwork for Alice’s recent books, Shattered Landing, Willow’s Run and Entangled, alongside the creative process behind each cover.

Click the cover image below to download The Art of A Changed World (revised edition) in PDF format.

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Talking cover design

I’m pleased to have a guest blog interview over on the Just Write Right website, about cover art and design, my creative process and working with self-publishing authors.

https://justwriteright.co.uk/2021/07/26/talking-cover-design/

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