Ace Comic Con, Locus Awards

This past weekend I met with two excellent fellows in entertainment who each received copies of Bones of Starlight 1 – actor Tom Hiddleston, and director Kevin Smith! A genuine pleasure. With Tom, I’m wearing my author photo jacket (my ‘trail blazer’). I came to see Kevin in my borrowed Locus Awards hawaiian shirt, which is also where the flower lei came from. In the space where he’s holding his arm out, that’s where you can imagine YOURSELF in the picture.

The Locus Awards was a splendid and jolly affair, and was also the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Locus Magazine, a stalwart of science fiction & fantasy critical review.

Out and about in Seattle, I discovered an artwork location of Bones of Starlight cover artist Leo Shallat, and came out (again, as poly-pan-sexual) to celebrate with the Pride Parade.

Hardcover Series Art

Sticking with incredibly talented Seattle-based calligraphy painter Leo Shallat, a stunning trio of paintings has been selected for the hardcover editions of Bones of Starlight. Even more, there are already prints available of the original artwork! Get them while you can, links with images. Very honored to be graced by this world-class public-works artist.

Displaying as the new website banner is a detail shot of the artwork for Fire Within. The also-beautiful previous selection for Book 1, “Dragon”, is still viewable in the Paintings section of Leo’s online portfolio.

for Book 1: Fire Within
“Golden Compass”

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for Book 2: Abyss Surrounding
“Open Source”

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for Book 3: Greater Beyond
“Radiate”

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