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Covering Alternate History

June 12, 2019 by James Young 3 Comments

Where Sarah Hoyt discusses the difficulty of putting a cover on alternate history works.  Go on and take a gander…

Filed Under: Writing Business Tagged With: Alternate History, Anthologies, Writing

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  1. OldNFO says

    June 13, 2019 at 6:17 pm

    Confusing at best, I wouldn’t want to try to ‘match’ the cover art to the story…

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    • James Young says

      June 13, 2019 at 8:28 pm

      I do try to take scenes from the story. However, they’re definitely scenes that are _wrong_, like the covers for Acts of War, On Seas So Crimson, and the forthcoming Against the Tide Imperial.

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    May 12, 2020 at 10:10 pm

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