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Here is an early look at the cover art for book ten, coming late November.

Chapters will resume on the normal schedule next week.

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David Carr

Do you have PDF of 10 available at all? Backpacking next week and would like to be able to read it while camping

wintoch

He has normal eyes. I thought they were like nebulas

wintoch

It looks good though

Beep Chirp Whirr

That's too bad. I have some extra ice if you need?

Zach West

I had to stop reading when Gary drank the juice... I gotta nut up and squeeze it in before it goes to press..

Ben Martz

Look at the chin lol

Aaron

Doesn't he get things to cover them when he goes undercover as an axillary?

Oreos_of_Doom

True, I think he only used the eye covers in book 9.

Scott Way

Looks good but the eyes need fixed. Wanted to see the nebulae eyes

wintoch

Yea, he only used them in book 9 while undercover. But once his identity is revealed he stops using them

Scott Way

Who's the gal on the right corner?

wintoch

i was thinking sofi or farah

Bunny

Hmm he's got normal eyes and brown hair... Shouldn't be the hair be black and the eyes look like gods eye nebula's with black sclera? And I was picturing less evil villain goatee and more actual beard?

James Taylor

Nice work! But dude take a break...you have been at it non stop!

wintoch

Spoiler alert - after gary drinks the juice he yells while swinging his hammer in the air. it goes something like this "thunder, Thunder, THUNDER, THUDERCATS HO!!!!"

wintoch

oops wrong show xD

Dandellelenne

Idk Sofi is dark skined and Farah is blonde my guess would be Arabella with the red evil looking powers

wintoch

Arabel is black thought

wintoch

aren't gabriel and arabel black? pretty sure they are

mhaj58

My moneys on Allayeth

Bunny

Yes Gabriel, Rufus, and Emir are black. I don't remember for sure Arabelle.

Koteric

Arabel is black? Fuck I need to pay more attention to descriptions.

Sena

Look at that hair

David Odle

I feel like that is Humphrey not Jason. But then the sword is wrong. Nice artwork though!

Justin Zaun

Can’t wait. Absolutely love this series

Naotsugu97

Humphrey can’t open cans with his chin.

Luis Maldonado

Jason looks cool, who's the girl? Storm Princess maybe?

Squirtle

I thought Hump was darker skinned?

Eltorak

Great job on the messengers to whoever designed/illustrated. They look like birds in flight

Squirtle

Sofi is very dark skinned with white hair, and I'm pretty sure Farrah is a redhead

Tempitheadem

Farrah is blonde, just reread the first book. I keep picturing her as brunette so I was surprised when it described her as blonde

JonO

He totally should've done that lol

JonO

I remember strawberry blonde so it'll be lightly red

Joshua Marsh

Weird question new patreon here, why are all of the book covers very wrong? Like is it a style choice? Is there a reason he describes his cloak as a void then the next art it’s a radiant galaxy? Or am I just reading wrong? I love the series but I can’t get my head around the fact that all the cover art is factually wrong

wintoch

Thank you everyone in the comments was wondering. I was looking for wings to see if maybe it was one. but your word makes it cannon 😂😂😂

Randragon

The art is good but it doesn’t match the books one bit. I know people will be mad that I am expressing my opinion because I am not agreeing with them. This has nothing to do with the artist unless they read the book and decided this was a match to it. This is garbage if you are tryin to design a book cover that captures any scene in the book. Junk.

Shirtaloon

Firstly, I'd like to say that I do have favourites amongst the book covers, being the ones featuring Farrah and Dawn. I have framed or screen printed covers of books 5, 6 and the alt art for book 4 framed on my office wall as I really like these ones. For those interested, I'll go over how the book cover sausage is made for my series; I can speak for other authors. The cover art comes from the publisher and I've never had a direct interaction with the artist. I give descriptions of scenes that I think will work but he's never read the books so it's an artist's interpretation based in minimal information, zero story context and no direct interaction with me. I've passed along passages from the relevant scenes and answered questions passed along to me from the artist, but we've never had a sit down or a zoom chat or even directly exchanged emails. My publisher likes to be the go-between, and they're the ones publishing the book. The result of the process is a matter of artist interpretation, and that is where the elements that aren't book accurate come from. For this reason, I gravitate towards the ones where Jason is absent or minimised, with books five, six and eight being my favourites. I think Dawn and Farrah have been captured a bit better than Jason.

Joshua Marsh

Ok yea sorry those were pretty good and I see what you’re saying but yea the Jason ones just make me want to not look at the covers versus the girls look way better.

Joshua Marsh

Yea the art is good I never said it wasn’t it just didn’t capture what I was imagining so it kinda through me for a loop a few times, but yes based on book it’s very bad.

Tim Szczesuil

The purpose of cover art is to sell the book. It does not need to be an accurate representation of the contents.

Rowdy Robby

Love the style. Just got the graphic hoodie. Anyone know if the graphic is a scene from the book? I think it's Farrah. Can't place the monster.

John M Davis

Looks right. Jason, going down the hole, followed by a beautiful woman. Needs more people tho.

Jyhden Bean

Like ok but I think it needs work to make it look more like Jason and same with the lady I honestly can’t tell who the lady is

Alison Blair

That makes sense! I do like the style of the covers, regardless of any incongruities. So, this gets a thumbs up from me! 👍

metzjc

Probably Farrah, Allayeth or a female messenger

NSaaby

.... did we just get a face-reveal?

Josh Turple

Not crazy about it tbh who are the people I thought Jason was black?

Matthew Avery

What you're saying about void really resonated with me. I've always thought since he's hiding in shadows and the pitch black familiar shade. Jason traveling through the dark and all he is often hiding, then popping out. Wouldn't make sense to be surprised by something hiding in a lava lamp, or disco ball of colour. I think people in the story have even commented on how it is like looking into nothing? Like nearly more nothing than a regular shadow, so much so that Jason had to color tone it to be less black? Nearly opposite to the void part, would be Jasons soul crest. According to the tattoo he got way back when, and Dawn's paintings. The crest seems to embody a galaxy feel? A sky speckled with stars, as depicted, seems wrong though. What seemed to be described back then was a nebula similar to the "Pillars of Creation", or "Mystic Mountain". Could the artist have gotten these mixed up somehow?

PreZ

He's always been described as half Japanese half Australian. A "Banana" by his cousin ('yellow on the outside, white on the inside'). So he'd be somewhere between white and Asian complexion.

JRatt

Jason is half-Japanese and appears so. it's been stated multiple times

Josh Turple

I've been reading to many books I guess hard to keep track still dont like the art style.

John goode

Really they where not joking about his chin tho lol

Bill Laskowski

Still think you're going to finish in 12 books?

Julia

Um what? He's half Japanese, half white.

Patrick Roks

Shirt has already stated that that was an initial estimate, but he has exceeded this number already possibly by several books. He has a vision for the series irrespective of the number of books it requires to complete.

Temp One

Glad to hear that. Just finished Cradle and it seems like the author went the procrustean route of chopping up the story to fit the book count. Like the entire abidan conflict the story was building up to from book 1 turned out to be almost entirely irrelevant to the main cast of characters.

Louie Lewis

New phone wallpaper here I come

Bango

The beard doesnt help with the chin 🤣

Scott Brown

Never even looked into the art work until now, but 5&6 would definitely be a favourite

osullytony

Nice cover but I noticed something, Jason's eyes don't match his then current eyes on a few book covers now, just wondered why. Love every book keep up the great work :).

Evan Knight

Hump has olive to caramel colored skin

Suessanah

I say it helps :p

Suessanah

Isn't Jason supposed to have black sclera? Love each one of them thou :) Thank you very much :)

Evan Courson

He started doing the magic things to hide his eyes while he is being “incognito”