More Recent Acceptances

[Scott H. Andrews]

"The Tinyman and Caroline," Sarah L. Edwards, 8000 words
"Thieves of Silence," Holly Phillips, 10500 words (Sunburst Award winner and multiple World Fantasy Award nominee)

Congratulations!

[Scott H. Andrews]

This is more an acquisition than an acceptance, but I'll list it anyway--future cover art rights to "Refugees" by Edward Miller, who won a World Fantasy Award just last weekend. Congratulations, Mr. Miller!

http://www.edwardmiller.co.uk/main/refugees.jpg

[Grace Seybold]

Wow, that is amazingly pretty. I love the colour contrast - the fact that there's no visible light source for the orange light in the picture makes it look really surreal. Very cool indeed.

[Scott H. Andrews]

I love the colour contrast - the fact that there's no visible light source for the orange light in the picture makes it look really surreal. Very cool indeed.
Thanks! I like many of his covers--he did the US ones for Tamara Siler Jones's first three novels. And I really like this particular painting--the color and the lighting, like you mention, but also something in that guard's hunched posture that makes me feel a sense of character.

[Saladin]

Very cool piece. I like very much the visual tone of the mag thus far. Sort of adventure fantasy novel motifs all grown up. Is there a plot resonance here with one of the upcoming stories?

[Scott H. Andrews]

I like very much the visual tone of the mag thus far. Sort of adventure fantasy novel motifs all grown up. Is there a plot resonance here with one of the upcoming stories?
Thanks very much!

Do you mean, does this painting have a plot resonance with an upcoming story? No, nothing specific. I pick the artwork based on general vibe, partly because it's on display for many issues of the magazine and so has to work for lots of different stories.

Or do you mean, does the "adventure fantasy... motifs all grown up" vibe have resonance with upcoming stories? :) In that case I would say absolutely, for every single one of them. "Adventure fantasy all grown up" would be a great tagline for what I think all the upcoming stories have, for what I want the whole magazine to be.

[Saladin]

I meant "does the art resonate plot-wise with any upcoming stories" It looks great, in any case!

[Scott H. Andrews]

I meant "does the art resonate plot-wise with any upcoming stories" It looks great, in any case!
Thanks! I've thought about doing more frequent and more specifically story-related artwork, but the fiction is far and away the magazine's top priority. Especially with as many stories as we're publishing, two every two weeks, the artwork will have to remain more generally fantastical.

[Brian Dolton]

Actually, the facade of the building (and, oddly, the orange colour) is very similar to what I'd envisaged for the city in "The Sacrifice Pit"...

[Scott H. Andrews]

Actually, the facade of the building (and, oddly, the orange colour) is very similar to what I'd envisaged for the city in "The Sacrifice Pit"...
Neat! I had pictured it totally differently, rounded tower-like buildings, but that of course is the beauty of fiction--for each writer & reader combination it becomes something different and unique.