Because my daughter doesn't visit my blog...

My daughter, Sarah, is quite an accomplished artist. Having had some training in art, I have an eye for quality and can be quite critical when it comes to such things. She's also highly competitive and wants nothing more than to "beat her old man." What she doesn't realize, is that she already has.  While I was a decent graphic designer, I never have had the skill for illustration that she does.

At the request of my wife, Sarah has been drawing characters from Riyria as her Christmas gift to her mother. She hates it when I show off her work, because she is stubborn (wonder where she gets that ) and any praise she  receives she wants to earn on her own.  No help from anyone, and least of all from me, her arch-nemesis. 

But my daughter doesn't come to my blog, so I can do what arch-nemisis do best...do everything possible to thwart the hero.  To that end I present to you a drawing Sarah has done for my new series, The Riyria Chronicles,  and more specifically the first book in the series The Crown Tower.

For those that don't know. This book is the origin story of Royce an Hadrian.  Two very different men, who probably not surprisingly, didn't like each other very much when they first met.


TWO MEN WHO HATE EACH OTHER.
ONE IMPOSSIBLE MISSION. A LEGEND IN THE MAKING.A warrior with nothing to fight for is paired with a thieving assassin with nothing to lose. Together they must steal a treasure that no one can reach. The Crown Tower is the impregnable remains of the grandest fortress ever built and home to the realm’s most valuable possessions. But it isn’t gold or jewels the old wizard is after, and this prize can only be obtained by the combined talents of two remarkable men. Now if Arcadias can just keep Hadrian and Royce from killing each other, they just might succeed.