Name: Anonymous 2007-12-10 17:19
I just realized something incredibly awesome.
The third volume of this series, To Green Angel Tower, is too damn big, so it's made out of two books, To Green Angel Tower: Siege and To Green Angel Tower: Storm. Siege features Simon and Miriamelle posing for a standard fantasy shot on a snowy, aged tower of some sort. Storm has two Sithi posing on a random beautiful ancient tower from the days when the Sithi ruled all of Osten Ard and so on. It also looks like summer.
I only now noticed that the two images are actually parts of the same image. What they did was have the artist draw a very wide, panoramic shot of BOTH the Sithi AND Simon & Miriamelle, and then they cut the picture down the middle and gave one half to each half-volume of the final book of the series. You can tell because a part of Simon's sword is poking out into the Sithi cover where he can't be seen.
I just think that's insanely awesome, to actually have the cover art mirror the actual books that way. The book is cut in two, so the cover is cut in two. The two books are really just one volume, so the two covers are really one piece of art, cut in half only because of publishing constraints.
The third volume of this series, To Green Angel Tower, is too damn big, so it's made out of two books, To Green Angel Tower: Siege and To Green Angel Tower: Storm. Siege features Simon and Miriamelle posing for a standard fantasy shot on a snowy, aged tower of some sort. Storm has two Sithi posing on a random beautiful ancient tower from the days when the Sithi ruled all of Osten Ard and so on. It also looks like summer.
I only now noticed that the two images are actually parts of the same image. What they did was have the artist draw a very wide, panoramic shot of BOTH the Sithi AND Simon & Miriamelle, and then they cut the picture down the middle and gave one half to each half-volume of the final book of the series. You can tell because a part of Simon's sword is poking out into the Sithi cover where he can't be seen.
I just think that's insanely awesome, to actually have the cover art mirror the actual books that way. The book is cut in two, so the cover is cut in two. The two books are really just one volume, so the two covers are really one piece of art, cut in half only because of publishing constraints.