{"id":5261,"date":"2010-12-20T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T18:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2010-12-20T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T18:22:36","slug":"cover-art-spellwright-by-blake-charlton-hilarious-french-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/art\/cover-art\/cover-art-spellwright-by-blake-charlton-hilarious-french-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Art | Spellwright by Blake Charlton (Hilarious French Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mortilege-by-blake-charlton.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mortilege-by-blake-charlton-466x750.jpg\" alt=\"Spellwright by Blake Charlton (Hilarious French Edition)\" title=\"Spellwright by Blake Charlton (Hilarious French Edition)\" width=\"466\" height=\"750\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Oh my.<\/p>\n<p>Now, France has been producing some sublime cover art over the past few years (<a href=\"http:\/\/darkwolfsfantasyreviews.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/blog-spotlight-marc-simonettis.html\">see what I mean?<\/a>)&#8230; but this is not one of them.<\/p>\n<p>I guess they got the book right\u2014there&#8217;s a grimoire or two in the novel that are rather important to the plot; but casting a smoke shrouded, over-aged children&#8217;s entertainer in hooker eye shadow as (assumedly) Nicodemus, Dyslexic Wizard Extraordinaire? Not so much. Charlton actually points out that in France <strong>Spellwright<\/strong> is being marketed as a YA novel, which explains some of the cover&#8217;s kitsch (and is actually a decent idea from a marketing perspective, given the strengths of the novel), but, still, it&#8217;s good for a chuckle.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, Charlton talks about the French cover, plus shows off the UK paperback cover, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blakecharlton.com\/2010\/12\/spellwrights-french-cover-a-new-uk-cover\/\">over on his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my. Now, France has been producing some sublime cover art over the past few years (see what I mean?)&#8230; but this is not one of them. I guess they got the book right\u2014there&#8217;s a grimoire or two in the novel that are rather important to the plot; but casting a smoke shrouded, over-aged children&#8217;s&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/art\/cover-art\/cover-art-spellwright-by-blake-charlton-hilarious-french-edition\/\" title=\"ReadCover Art | Spellwright by Blake Charlton (Hilarious French Edition)\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/art\/cover-art\/cover-art-spellwright-by-blake-charlton-hilarious-french-edition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cover Art | Spellwright by Blake Charlton (Hilarious French Edition) - A Dribble of Ink\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Oh my. 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