You can see it here as part of this interview with Jason at Eleven-ThirtyEight. Tom Lintern is back with another terrific cover. Don’t miss the interview, as it offers some hints about what’s to come in The Rise of Earth next June, a discussion of the Jupiter Pirates series in general, and some talk about some space-fantasy series called … Star Wars?
The Rise of Earth hits bookstores June 14, 2016, but look for a special Jupiter Pirates short story in December.
More to come soon!
Without further ado, from the great Tom Lintern:
(Click the image to enlarge. And for more awesome stuff by Tom, check out his site.)
The Jupiter Pirates: Curse of the Iris hits bookstores Dec. 16. Between then and now we’ll have a sneak preview and other cool stuff, so keep checking back.
As a reminder, members of the Crew — that’s the Jupiter Pirates mailing list — got to see this first. So take a second and join up — as a thank you, within the hour you’ll get Vesuvia’s dossier on the crew of the Shadow Comet, which features information you can’t find anywhere else. And there will be other goodies in the future.
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This week is gonna be so much fun…
One of the best days on Hunt for the Hydra‘s journey from idea to finished book was when I first saw the cover art by the amazing Tom Lintern. (Check out more of his work here.)
Tom’s been working on the cover for the second Jupiter Pirates book, Curse of the Iris, and I get to unveil it this week.
Here’s what I’m going to do, though:
The cover will be unveiled tomorrow in an email to subscribers to the Crew newsletter. Then I’ll show it off here on Thursday. So if you want to see it first, join the Crew today! It’s quick, super-easy and as a thank you for joining you’ll get an exclusive dossier about the Shadow Comet‘s crew written by Vesuvia, as well as more cool exclusives in the future.
For today, as a teaser, here are two of Tom’s sketches that led to the final cover, including our first look at Yana.
Here’s Tom’s first sketch (click to enlarge):
I loved it instantly, but in talking it over with my editor we decided that the ship’s wheel was a striking image but not quite the direction we wanted to go. Here’s Tom’s revision of Tycho, which I think captures the character beautifully:
If this doesn’t whet your appetite for the final cover, I don’t know what will!
Join the Crew and you’ll see the finished cover tomorrow!
Hope you aren’t working too hard on one of the more pointless days in the office and/or classroom. Before the New Year’s festivities begin, I wanted to catch up with some of the reviews that have come in for The Jupiter Pirates: Hunt for the Hydra.
Tanya at books4yourkids gives Hunt for the Hydra a very thoughtful review. She appreciated the world-building, and I was really glad to see her describe the competition for the captain’s chair like this:
Tycho, Yana and Carlos are growing up under constant scrutiny from their captain as [Diocletia] watches their skills develop and calculates which of her three children will make the best future captain. All three want the position badly and all three have different skills. What makes Tycho an interesting character is the fact that, despite his desire to be captain, he knows his weaknesses and he knows when to rely on his siblings and their superior skills in certain areas. He and his twin Yana make an especially good team with Yana thinking outside the box and taking risks where Tycho is a steady hand…
One nice thing about a thoughtful review like this one is it lets you see things you weren’t entirely conscious of during the writing process. Tanya’s absolutely right that Tycho knows his own weaknesses and relies on his siblings. That’s something Yana does reluctantly and we don’t see Carlo do at all. In Hunt for the Hydra, Tycho’s too young and too worried to grasp that knowing your own limitations and turning to others is an important part of being an effective captain. Hopefully he’ll grasp that lesson one day.
Tanya also gave Tom Lintern’s awesome cover some well-deserved praise. I can’t wait for her and everybody else to get a peek at what Tom has done for Curse of the Iris — Tom’s still sketching, but I’m really excited by what I’ve seen so far. I’ll have to ask HarperCollins if we can offer some kind of sneak preview….
If you’ve got your copy of Hunt for the Hydra, I can’t thank you enough. If not, you’ll find order information for books and ebooks over on the home page, or drop by your local bookstore. And if you’d like to preview the book first, or give a friend a sneak peek, you can read, download and share the first five chapters here.
Join the Crew (that’s the Jupiter Pirates email list) and within an hour you’ll get a link to download an exclusive as a thank-you — a dossier about the Shadow Comet‘s crew prepared by Vesuvia. More exclusive material like this is in the works for members (along with sneak peeks and other good stuff), so I hope you’ll sign up….