[LMB] (news-chat) Horizon cover is up!

[Lois McMaster Bujold]

Hi all --

    The just-completed cover by artist Julie Bell for _The Sharing 
Knife, Vol. 4: Horizon_, due out February 2009 from Eos, has now been 
added to the TSK covers page on dendarii.com (thank you, Mike 
Bernardi!)  It's at the bottom of the collection: scroll down.

http://www.dendarii.co.uk/Covers/American/knife.html

    I'm very pleased with it.  People, horses, and landscape all look 
like themselves, and it's a tolerably-accurately represented scene from 
the actual book.  I'm also happy with how the progression of the covers 
reflects the progression of the themes of the book -- from the formation 
of a couple, through the formation of a family (for a certain value of 
"family") through the formation of a community.  All right, so the 
community is represented on the _Horizon_ cover by the trailing mob on 
the road in the background -- Julie was calling them "the Little People" 
-- but at least they are *there*.

    I had actually suggested some sort of a pastiche of this famous 
frontier painting as a jumping-off point for the _Horizon_ cover:

http://kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collections/artwork.asp?accnum=WU%202171

    but it was apparently felt that the frontal-facing pose had been 
"used up" by the _Passage_ cover.  We retained a sense of the 
Appalachian-like landscape, though, which makes me happy.

    Ta, L.