Cover art & design for 'Black Dog Short Stories' by AidanaWillowRaven

DAZ|Studio • Creatures • posted on Feb 20, 2015

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I am really enjoying working with author, Rachel Neumeier. This is our second project together, and we're already planning one other, Pure Magic. Rachel is a hybrid-author, publishing books through both traditional houses and indie formats; and she's not the only author I work with following this trend. For the cover of Black Dog Short Stories, which is a soon-to-be available companion publication to her Black Dog novel, published through Strange Chemistry, we chose a hypothetical scene from one of the four short stories contained within. Blurb: Natividad is delighted when the Master of Dimilioc gives her permission to go Christmas shopping in a real town, since she definitely needs to find gifts for her brothers. But did Grayson have to assign Keziah to go with her? Etienne Lumondiere has annoyed Miguel once too often, throwing his weight around and belittling ordinary humans. But Miguel's going to fix that. He just needs to work out a few more details of his clever plan. It's tough for a black dog raised outside Dimilioc to adjust to being a team player. But Thaddeus is determined to impress Grayson . . . until he is unexpectedly confronted by a black dog kid who reminds him a little too much of himself. The Dimilioc executioner is the mainstay of the Master's authority, as Ezekiel knows better than anyone. He has never questioned his role in Dimilioc . . . until now. "Christmas Shopping," "Library Work," and "A Learning Experience" all take place between Black Dog and Pure Magic. "The Master of Dimilioc" is a prequel story that takes place several years before the events of Black Dog. Be sure to visit Rachel's website (http://www.rachelneumeier.com/) and follow her on Twitter (https://twitter.com/RachelNeumeier). Previous:

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Comments (29)

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Cyve

3:26PM | Fri, 20 February 2015

Fantastic scene and composition... Outstanding corver also !!!

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rbowen

3:42PM | Fri, 20 February 2015

Excellent work!!!

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kenmo

3:45PM | Fri, 20 February 2015

Awesome work...Is this a graphic novel or a pocket book? Cheers

AidanaWillowRaven

3:55PM | Fri, 20 February 2015

It will be a paperback book containing four short stories, all relating to an existing novel series by the same author.

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LivingPixels

4:34PM | Fri, 20 February 2015

A cool piece of design illustration as always love seeing what your working on!!

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flavia49

6:20PM | Fri, 20 February 2015

marvelous

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dreaming_banshee

7:07PM | Fri, 20 February 2015

Great cover!

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aqua1955

7:39PM | Fri, 20 February 2015

Very lovely cover

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Windigo

8:24PM | Fri, 20 February 2015

A lot of magic, in the story and your art ! very nice work!

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Mulltipass

8:34PM | Fri, 20 February 2015

Awesome Cover!!!

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UVDan

10:02PM | Fri, 20 February 2015

Beautiful job!

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jocko500

11:59PM | Fri, 20 February 2015

this is good

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mtdana

1:41AM | Sat, 21 February 2015

Wonderful composition - excellent cover Art - very well done!!!

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starship64

1:42AM | Sat, 21 February 2015

Fantastic scene. Very nicely done.

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drittervon5

6:48AM | Sat, 21 February 2015

Interesting work! Very well done!

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soffy

10:04AM | Sat, 21 February 2015

Wonderful cover art,excellently done*****

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irisinthespring

10:22AM | Sat, 21 February 2015

Magnificent cover work!

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cjn

10:37AM | Sat, 21 February 2015

great job

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pregiato

11:43AM | Sat, 21 February 2015

Excellent composition. This is a beautiful cover!!!

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farmerC

1:34PM | Sat, 21 February 2015

Exellent work.

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Egzariuf

2:42PM | Sat, 21 February 2015

something about your lady tells me she's trouble..... Fantastic :-)

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DennisReed

4:08PM | Sat, 21 February 2015

cool

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Faemike55

7:28PM | Sat, 21 February 2015

Fabulous and very cool sounds like one I have to get

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rajib

11:55PM | Sat, 21 February 2015

Nicely done !

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Jean_C

3:40AM | Sun, 22 February 2015

Wonderful scene and excellent cover!

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netsuke

4:02PM | Sun, 22 February 2015

Don't get the synopsis - but like the illustration.

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AureliusdeMercoeur

7:30AM | Mon, 23 February 2015

A very realistic scene : the realism comes with the poses and expressions, their clothes, and all these different books ! In fact, there are a lot of same books, but that doesn't appear at the first glance !! Excellent cover and nice work !!

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