late in 2010, i was contacted by the UK's
pan macmillan and asked to illustrate the jacket for
"the herring on the nile", the latest in
l. c. tyler's series of "elsie and ethelred" mystery novels.
i was given a fairly detailed description from my art director detailing the general theme and tone of the piece and then i was allowed to run free. the look evolved quite a bit from the initial sketch and i'm really pleased with where we ended up. i've even had the opportunity to re-work one of the covers for an earlier book in the series. more on that later.
"the herring on the nile" will be released
july 1, 2011.
© 2011 Pan Macmillan
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"There he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die.”- Raoul Duke (“Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas”, 1998)