{"id":22148,"date":"2022-11-11T16:31:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=22148"},"modified":"2022-11-11T16:31:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:31:27","slug":"the-legend-of-charlie-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/11\/11\/the-legend-of-charlie-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of Charlie Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/bibliopoesy\/charliefish.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/charliefish.jpg\" alt=\"charliefish.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had several new book covers waiting in the wings for the past few months. The most recent of these, the cover for <a href=\"https:\/\/tachyonpublications.com\/product\/the-legend-of-charlie-fish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Legend of Charlie Fish<\/em> by Josh Rountree<\/a>, was made public earlier this week so I can reveal it here.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this debut, neo-gothic Western novel, an unlikely found family flees to Galveston, Texas, and a psychic young girl bonds with an enigmatic gill-man. While two bounty hunters are determined to profit by the spectacle Charlie Fish, the Great Storm\u2014the worst natural disaster in US history\u2014is on its way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The brief for this one was to create something similar to the covers I designed for Mike Shevdon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/bibliopoesy\/courts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Courts of the Fayre<\/em> series<\/a>. Having already been asked to imitate the look of that series for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/bibliopoesy\/divinecomp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Marianne Williamson cover<\/a> I was a little reluctant to do so again, but the final version of this one feels sufficiently different from the others to stand apart. One advantage of the graphic treatment was being able to use silhouettes to hint at the nature of the &#8220;enigmatic gill-man&#8221; without being too specific. When the appearance of characters is more alluded to than described you have to take care that your artwork isn&#8217;t too literal.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Legend of Charlie Fish<\/em> will be published by Tachyon in July 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had several new book covers waiting in the wings for the past few months. The most recent of these, the cover for The Legend of Charlie Fish by Josh Rountree, was made public earlier this week so I can reveal it here. In this debut, neo-gothic Western novel, an unlikely found family flees to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/11\/11\/the-legend-of-charlie-fish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Legend of Charlie Fish&#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_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":"New blog post: The Legend of Charlie Fish","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,42,4,21,23],"tags":[12518,383],"class_list":["post-22148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-fantasy","category-work","tag-josh-rountree","tag-tachyon-publications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5Le","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22148","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=22148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}