{"id":9855,"date":"2012-08-13T15:47:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T23:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=9855"},"modified":"2012-08-13T15:47:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T23:47:31","slug":"cover-art-and-synopsis-for-control-point-fortress-frontier-by-myke-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/art\/cover-art\/cover-art-and-synopsis-for-control-point-fortress-frontier-by-myke-cole\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Art and Synopsis for Control Point: Fortress Frontier<\/em> by Myke Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Control\n

\nThe Great Reawakening did not come quietly. Across the country and in every nation, people began to develop terrifying powers\u2014summoning storms, raising the dead, and setting everything they touch ablaze. Overnight the rules changed… but not for everyone.<\/p>\n

Colonel Alan Bookbinder is an army bureaucrat whose worst war wound is a paper-cut. But after he develops magical powers, he is torn from everything he knows and thrown onto the front-lines.<\/p>\n

Drafted into the Supernatural Operations Corps in a new and dangerous world, Bookbinder finds himself in command of Forward Operating Base Frontier\u2014cut off, surrounded by monsters, and on the brink of being overrun.<\/p>\n

Now, he must find the will to lead the people of FOB Frontier out of hell, even if the one hope of salvation lies in teaming up with the man whose own magical powers put the base in such grave danger in the first place\u2014Oscar Britton, public enemy number one…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I still haven’t read Cole’s work, despite hearing great things about it from many readers, but I like this cover, so I wanted to post it anyway. Sure, it’s cheezy and overloaded with testosterone, but it’s great to see Ace Books not shy away from the ethnic diversity in Cole’s novels. Are genre marketing departments finally starting to wake up? Let’s hope so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Great Reawakening did not come quietly. Across the country and in every nation, people began to develop terrifying powers\u2014summoning storms, raising the dead, and setting everything they touch ablaze. Overnight the rules changed… but not for everyone. Colonel Alan Bookbinder is an army bureaucrat whose worst war wound is a paper-cut. But after he… Control Point: Fortress Frontier<\/em> by Myke Cole”>Read more »<\/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":[31,26],"tags":[82,1285,315,316,1283,138,59],"class_list":["post-9855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-cover-art","tag-ace","tag-art","tag-control-point","tag-control-point-fortress-frontier","tag-cover-art","tag-myke-cole","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n