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My Cover Artists

Posted by Karl on Friday January 11, @10:42AM
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I've been blessed with excellent cover art for all my books. My current artist at Tor Books is Alan Pollack, though the French version of Ventus will have art by the acclaimed French illustrator Manchu. The cover art for The Claus Effect was by Alberta illustrator Verne Busby.

You can view other artwork by these artists online:

Alan Pollack has his own site (the original art for Permanence can be seen there). Mr. Pollack's cover for Ventus was his first foray into stricly science-fictional themes for a cover; previously he had made his reputation doing fantasy cover art. (I'd like to think that Ventus was a breakthrough piece for him, but of course, that's just my own ego talking.) He continues to have great success; one of his covers was reprinted as the cover illustration for Spectrum 8, the latest in the annual series of highly-respected best-of fantastic art collections.
Verne Busby is a professional illustrator, one of the partenrs at Totino-Busby. He produces artwork for corporate clients, and also creates fine art, some samples of which can be found on the website. I love the cover for The Claus Effect, it's very atmospheric and, somehow, nails the color-palette of the novel that David and I had in mind as we were writing.

Speaking of palettes, it's interesting to note that the covers for Ventus, The Claus Effect and Permanence share the same basic palette. Put the three side by side and their colors are harmonious, in other words. It's a small thing, perhaps, but very useful for creating a particular "look and feel" to my books.

Acclaimed French artist Manchu has done book covers for many of the greats, including Philip K. Dick and Philip Jose Farmer. I'm honored to have him doing the cover for the French translation of Ventus.

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