Holiday Greetings!

I hope you all have a joyful festive season, and best wishes for a happy and healthy new year!

Skin Game

Here’s my cover design for the latest of the Subterranean Press editions of the Dresden Files novels. Skin Game is the fifteenth book in the series, and this Subterranean Press edition will be published in Jan 2022. Below are my interior illustrations for it.

The Long Game

Here’s my cover design for the next K. J. Parker novella from Subterranean Press. The Long Game will be out in March 2022 and is available for preorder now.

The Only Good Indians

Here’s my cover design for the German edition of The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones. This German language edition will be published by Buchheim Verlag in December this year and will also feature a number of b&w interior illustrations by me.

Samsara

Independent Legions Publishing are releasing a hardcover edition of Samsara by Caleb Battiago. This edition will use one of my older illustrations, The Punished, for the cover.

This hardcover edition will be released this month and is available for preorder.

Gothic Wounds

Here is the cover reveal for the fourth and final Joe R. Lansdale collection from SST Publications. This mammoth volume collects 20 of Lansdale’s stories and features interior art by Ben Baldwin. You can see the full table of contents here. Each copy will be signed by Joe, Ben and I, and is limited to 550 copies only.

Gothic Wounds is scheduled to be released at the end of 2021 and is available to preorder. This collection finishes off the set that includes Cosmic Interruptions, Blood in the Gears and Wet JuJu, which are all now out of print.

Livello 49

One of my older illustrations from 2009, In Hell, which was originally commissioned for the cover of Dead Streets by Tim Waggoner, has been re-licensed for the cover of an Italian language novel – Livello 49 by Alessandro Pedretta.

Livello 49 will be published soon by Independent Legions and is available for preorder.

Shining in the Dark Greek Edition

Yet another foreign edition of Shining in the Dark has just been released! The Greek language edition is now out from Klidarithmos.

Fictions: Health and Care Re-imagined Webinar

With the year-long Fictions project drawing to a close, Future Care Capital are hosting a webinar event on Wednesday 30th June, 16:00-17:00 to explore what inspired the authors, and ethical issues raised by the use of tech in health and social care. Registration is free and can be found here.

The event will briefly refresh some of the key themes of the stories, including the use of algorithms to assess need; alternative and virtual realities in care; and the risks and possibilities of ‘cheating the system’ where artificial intelligence is employed.

Here is the press release:

Storytelling has been used throughout history to engage people’s imagination, to facilitate a sense of culture and community, to pass down tales about the past, and explore the possibilities of the future.

Fiction engages the brain in a different way to reading facts, can facilitate a better understanding of other people, and can help us see the world from different perspectives. It can be a way of opening conversations about difficult issues, taboos and stigma in a non-threatening way.

Over the course of one year starting in the summer of 2020, Future Care Capital has been running a series of highly successful fictional stories exploring the potential futures of health and social care through science fiction. This innovative approach was taken to inspire debate and new thinking among practitioners and policy makers, and as a way of making ideas and realities of near-future technology more accessible to a wider audience. 

This event presents an opportunity to reflect on the power of stories, and on the real world issues and concerns addressed in our Fictions series.

It’s Her Turn

The 12th and final story in Future Care Capital’s year long Fictions project is now online and free to read on their website. It’s Her Turn is by Anne Charnock.

Here is the artwork in full that I did for the final three stories.

It’s been a lot of fun being involved in this project over the last year, collobarating with the authors and seeing it all come together. To mark the end of this project, Future Care Capital will be holding an online event at the end of the month to reflect on the themes and issues addressed in this Fictions series. I will post details of this event shortly.