Bad Cliches

When life throws you lemons, you don’t generally want to make lemonade. Partially because after dodging a bunch of lemons, you don’t have much energy to put into the beverage industry, and partially because you have no idea where life got those lemons in the first place nor where they’ve been.

However, sometimes all the lemon dodging leads you to a new perspective on life, and hopefully not through black eyes. In this case, after being told my illustrator wouldn’t be able to finish my cover I went on a desperate search for a replacement. And replacing Marjolein was going to be difficult.

A lot of friends and acquaintances came forward with ideas, friends, names, and websites that I should check out. I started emailing artists that caught my eye and who I thought could do the cover for Tomb of the Relequim justice. One of the guys at the top of my list wrote me back with surprising speed.

I’m excited to announce that the cover for Tomb of the Relequim will be done by Sam Spratt from New York. Our deadline is this Friday, which is insane. It also means that Tomb of the Relequim will be coming out in a matter of weeks. I’m aiming to release it as early as Tuesday, August 14th. And yes, that’s 2012. Looks like there’s lemonade in this for us after all.

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