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It's time for #BeyondTheCover, where we show you the amazing art behind our gorgeous book covers!
Today we are showcasing the art created by Tom Kidd for 1637: Pilgrim’s Passage by Eric Flint & Griffin Barber.
Although a scatterbrain as a child, Tom Kidd was a magic copying machine. Once he looked at something he could draw it accurately, but he was quick to notice that machines could do just as good a job as he could. Even though he had offers to do portraits, he set about making things up to draw instead - no camera could do that, and making things up was more fun anyway. He eventually moved to New York City. His simple plan: sink or swim. After some gasping and flailing in the muck of the big city he got the hang of it and begin treading water. He has worked for a number of publishers: Baen Books, Random House, DAW Books, and others.
1637: Pilgrim’s Passage by Eric Flint & Griffin Barber
Jahanara Begum is on pilgrimage, a journey and rite every Muslim must essay if able. The up-timers of the USE Mission are escorting the princess in her travels to Jeddah before returning home, their mission accomplished and allies made of the court of Dara Shikoh, having helped to place him on the Peacock Throne.
But the pilgrimage is only the public-facing reason for her departure from Agra.
In reality, the begum sahib is also carrying her love child off to Jeddah in hopes of giving birth in secrecy. Everyone outside the Mission and her most loyal followers must be kept ignorant of the impending birth, a feat which would be hard enough if her brother hadn’t saddled her with the presence of her great aunt and frequent adversary, the sometime empress Nur Jahan.
Can Jahanara Begum and her USE allies safely navigate the power politics of the Pilgrim’s Passage?
To see more of the artist’s work, go to: spellcaster.com/tomkidd
To get the ebook, go to: baen.com/1637-the-pilgrim-s-passage.html
To learn more, go to: simonandschuster.com/books/1637-Pilgrims-Passage/Griffin-Barber/Ring-of-Fire/9781668073346
#BaenBooks #NewRelease #BeyondTheCover
It's time for #BeyondTheCover, where we show you the amazing art behind our gorgeous book covers!
Today we are showcasing the art created by Tom Kidd for 1637: Pilgrim’s Passage by Eric Flint & Griffin Barber.
Although a scatterbrain as a child, Tom Kidd was a magic copying machine. Once he looked at something he could draw it accurately, but he was quick to notice that machines could do just as good a job as he could. Even though he had offers to do portraits, he set about making things up to draw instead - no camera could do that, and making things up was more fun anyway. He eventually moved to New York City. His simple plan: sink or swim. After some gasping and flailing in the muck of the big city he got the hang of it and begin treading water. He has worked for a number of publishers: Baen Books, Random House, DAW Books, and others.
1637: Pilgrim’s Passage by Eric Flint & Griffin Barber
Jahanara Begum is on pilgrimage, a journey and rite every Muslim must essay if able. The up-timers of the USE Mission are escorting the princess in her travels to Jeddah before returning home, their mission accomplished and allies made of the court of Dara Shikoh, having helped to place him on the Peacock Throne.
But the pilgrimage is only the public-facing reason for her departure from Agra.
In reality, the begum sahib is also carrying her love child off to Jeddah in hopes of giving birth in secrecy. Everyone outside the Mission and her most loyal followers must be kept ignorant of the impending birth, a feat which would be hard enough if her brother hadn’t saddled her with the presence of her great aunt and frequent adversary, the sometime empress Nur Jahan.
Can Jahanara Begum and her USE allies safely navigate the power politics of the Pilgrim’s Passage?
To see more of the artist’s work, go to: spellcaster.com/tomkidd
To get the ebook, go to: baen.com/1637-the-pilgrim-s-passage.html
To learn more, go to: simonandschuster.com/books/1637-Pilgrims-Passage/Griffin-Barber/Ring-of-Fire/9781668073346
#BaenBooks #NewRelease #BeyondTheCover
