Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
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 Todd Lockwood for One-Fifth Dragon by Shami Stovall.
Science Fiction and Fantasy consumed Todd Lockwood’s childhood. He started drawing before he can remember, then in his teens he discovered Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, and Dungeons and Dragons not long after. He’s been Role-Playing ever since. As an adult he became fascinated with Mythology, particularly transformative mythology and the hidden meanings of Myth.
Fantasy and sci-fi are his two favorite things to visualize, besides myth, babes, skies… “I have a lot of fun, because I am inventing things no one has ever seen before, things that can’t be photographed and then manipulated in Photoshop.” Stick around—the best is yet to come.
About the book: They call themselves my found family, but they slaughtered my kin. Now, I will pay back the murderers in blood tenfold.
Their ruin is a mirror they polished themselves. They took me as a child and hammered me into a weapon.
They taught me the art of disappearing: how to slip through a room like a shadow at noon, how to dress a face in lies until no one recognizes the man beneath. They taught the small, hands-on cruelties: how to hide poison, how to slit a throat before the man can make a noise.
Most dangerous of all . . . they taught me patience. They taught me to never quit until the job was completed.
So let them sleep in their castles and whisper of safety. Let them keep their cleverness and secrets.When darkness comes—and it will—I will be the thing beneath the floorboards, the breath on their necks, the quiet that becomes the scream. I will return what they took, multiplied by the cruelty they practiced.
Their hands built the blade.
Their choices sharpened it.
Their blood will be the prize.
To see more of the artist’s work, go to: toddlockwood.com
To get the ebook, go to: baen.com/one-fifth-dragon.html
To learn more, go to: simonandschuster.com/books/One-Fifth-Dragon/Shami-Stovall/9781668073353
#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 Todd Lockwood for One-Fifth Dragon by Shami Stovall.
Science Fiction and Fantasy consumed Todd Lockwood’s childhood. He started drawing before he can remember, then in his teens he discovered Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, and Dungeons and Dragons not long after. He’s been Role-Playing ever since. As an adult he became fascinated with Mythology, particularly transformative mythology and the hidden meanings of Myth.
Fantasy and sci-fi are his two favorite things to visualize, besides myth, babes, skies… “I have a lot of fun, because I am inventing things no one has ever seen before, things that can’t be photographed and then manipulated in Photoshop.” Stick around—the best is yet to come.
About the book: They call themselves my found family, but they slaughtered my kin. Now, I will pay back the murderers in blood tenfold.
Their ruin is a mirror they polished themselves. They took me as a child and hammered me into a weapon.
They taught me the art of disappearing: how to slip through a room like a shadow at noon, how to dress a face in lies until no one recognizes the man beneath. They taught the small, hands-on cruelties: how to hide poison, how to slit a throat before the man can make a noise.
Most dangerous of all . . . they taught me patience. They taught me to never quit until the job was completed.
So let them sleep in their castles and whisper of safety. Let them keep their cleverness and secrets.When darkness comes—and it will—I will be the thing beneath the floorboards, the breath on their necks, the quiet that becomes the scream. I will return what they took, multiplied by the cruelty they practiced.
Their hands built the blade.
Their choices sharpened it.
Their blood will be the prize.
To see more of the artist’s work, go to: toddlockwood.com
To get the ebook, go to: baen.com/one-fifth-dragon.html
To learn more, go to: simonandschuster.com/books/One-Fifth-Dragon/Shami-Stovall/9781668073353
#BaenBooks #NewRelease #BeyondTheCover
