When the Goddess Wakes Cover Reveal

There’s a lot going on behind the scenes here. The third book of the trilogy is fully drafted and the first act of it (of three total) is just about polished.


And then there’s the cover, another beauty by Lauren Saint-Onge. I’m delighted with it, for obvious reasons.


Any readers of the first two books want to speculate who the three humanoids are? I think one’s pretty obvious, and probably two, but the other… not so much.


I’ve got a new story in an anthology coming out next week, and it’s available for pre-order right now. It stars probably my favorite of all my characters, Hanuvar Cabera, but the anthology is full of other great fiction as well. It’s titled Galactic Stew, and is edited by none other than Joshua Palmetier and David B. Coe. You can find it right here.


Speaking of Hanuvar, I’ve been re-organizing my web site a little and created a dedicated page both for him and for Dabir and Asim. You can check out Hanuvar here, and Dabir and Asim here. My son drew the Hanuvar picture and will soon be finishing one for the Dabir and Asim page.


…and speaking of Dabir and Asim, two new stories featuring them will soon be in print. One’s coming out in Heroic Fiction Quarterly very soon. I’ll post something about it here when it happens.

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Published on June 27, 2020 19:41
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message 1: by Michael Fierce (new)

Michael Fierce That is an incredible cover, Howard! One of the best of the more recent I've seen.


message 2: by Howard (new)

Howard Hey, thanks! Yes, I was delighted. If anything, I liked Lauren Saint-Onge's cover for this one even better than for book 2!


message 3: by Michael Fierce (last edited Jun 28, 2020 07:57PM) (new)

Michael Fierce Upon the Flight of the Queen cover artwork by Lauren Saint-Onge is very GOT and eye-catching no doubt but this one by him and the classic cover of The Desert of Souls by Charles Keegan are standouts in the genre today, at least in my eyes. Man, the Sword and Sorcery Gods are certainly smiling down on you! The way the mouth is posed here makes me think of that cool fight scene of the Spinosaurus vs. the T-Rex in Jurassic Park 3.


message 4: by Howard (new)

Howard Thanks, Michael! Yes, I've been pretty lucky with covers over the years. Tyler Jacobsen won a Chesley Award for his cover to *Beyond the Pool of Stars* and I was so taken with the cover to *Plague of Shadows* that the wraparound cover is still my Desktop (it's my only wraparound cover). Did you ever see the cover Charles Keegan painted for the British edition of *The Bones of the old Ones?* It's also a favorite.


message 5: by Michael Fierce (new)

Michael Fierce Surprisingly, no. It is a gorgeous cover! the skulls even have a touch of Frank Frazetta almost and though the color scheme isn't in any way the same nor the outlines of the characters the use of open space faintly suggests Jeffrey Jones. I don't see a lot of cover art that reminds me of either these days unless they are more like their comic book work. It reminds me of one other artist the most but I can't place who it is at the moment. Darn. I know my artwork from every kind of art style and period, wish it dawned on me but it's 5:30 in the morning and I guess my brain is too fuzzzy 😫


message 6: by nora (new)

nora Oh my goodness, I am SO excited!


message 7: by Howard (new)

Howard Olive wrote: "Oh my goodness, I am SO excited!"

I'm glad you're looking forward to it!


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