{"id":18763,"date":"2018-06-29T00:57:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18763"},"modified":"2018-06-29T00:57:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T23:57:10","slug":"the-mercenaries-of-the-stolen-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2018\/06\/29\/the-mercenaries-of-the-stolen-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mercenaries of the Stolen Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/bibliopoesy\/mercenaries.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mercenaries.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/mercenaries.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As promised last week, here&#8217;s my latest cover for Megan Derr\u2019s gay fantasy series, <em>Tales of the High Court<\/em>. The first book wasn&#8217;t intended to have this many sequels so my initial cover design also wasn&#8217;t planned as something that might be a template for later volumes. The previous books (below) borrowed bits and pieces from a set of early Viollet-le-Duc illustrations, a decision that posed problems as the series evolved when I began to run out of usable material. The new book required a different setting so I was able to dispense with the medieval architecture in favour of a hybrid of Indian and Cambodian stonework. I&#8217;ve always enjoyed the ruined-jungle-temple aesthetic so this was fun to work on, and made a break from all the black-and-white illustration I&#8217;ve been producing for the past year or so. <em>The Mercenaries of the Stolen Moon<\/em> will be published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lessthanthreepress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Less Than Three Press<\/a> later this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/bibliopoesy\/loststar.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"loststar.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/loststar.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/bibliopoesy\/fathomsdeep.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"derr2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/derr2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/bibliopoesy\/highking.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"derr1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/derr1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/08\/11\/the-heart-of-the-lost-star\/\">The Heart of the Lost Star<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/07\/14\/tales-of-the-high-court\/\">Tales of the High Court<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised last week, here&#8217;s my latest cover for Megan Derr\u2019s gay fantasy series, Tales of the High Court. The first book wasn&#8217;t intended to have this many sequels so my initial cover design also wasn&#8217;t planned as something that might be a template for later volumes. The previous books (below) borrowed bits and pieces &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2018\/06\/29\/the-mercenaries-of-the-stolen-moon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Mercenaries of the Stolen Moon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,42,4,21,5,23],"tags":[8338,8337,397],"class_list":["post-18763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-fantasy","category-gay","category-work","tag-less-than-three-press","tag-megan-derr","tag-viollet-le-duc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4SD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}