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Czerneda Comfort
I’ve read six, no, seven books by Julie Czerneda, so by now I take great comfort in her voice: familiar with her style and word choice. I can trust her to lead me down an interesting story with...
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The Power of Cover Art
This is the story of how someone else’s cover art can sell your book. Cover art is powerful. *That* image, which you recognize as a thumbnail, or even as a corner of a tattered paperback sticking out...
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Tales of the Talisman Art
So I recently started reading short fiction again, having subscribed to Tales of the Talisman. In a previous article, I went on about a short story by Jim Lee. Lucky for me I was able to get my hands...
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Cover Art: What Am I Missing Out On?
It’s getting to be just a touch nipply at night and I truly do enjoy snuggling down under two quilts and a few cats with a good book at the end of the day. Wrapped in that fuzzy warmth, I have enjoyed...
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Strong Oh-So Femine Poses
Here at Darkcargo we have talked abit about cover art and how it can influence your pick of reading material. This is the best little article I have seen on scifi/fantasy cover art that is suppose to...
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Book Shopping
I treated myself to a haircut and a trip to the Last Bookstore In America* today. Here’s what I found. First, it took me a while to even find the bloody books. Here’s a photo. You walk in and are...
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Classy Classics Calendar
You can get yours at worldbuilders.org Recently, Lady Darkcargo got back from some con or twother and sent me a little happy box. It included this calendar that has a different lady from each month...
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Banging on about Cover Art
Our purpose here at Darkcargo is to bring a forum space to the “rank-and-file” of science fiction and fantasy readers. We are not literary analysts, publishers, ::waves hands vaguely:: whatevers. We’re...
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Dumb Cover Art
We’ve talked about this before, but they’re still publishing them so we gotta keep talking about it. This is the same book, a later reprint. Same book. Which one are you going to buy? Yah, me too....
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Best cover art ever Judgy Campbell award
I have no idea what this book is about, but already own a copy plus the ebook and borrowed it from the library. And I’m buying one for you, too. This is the art that sells books. Matthew Stawicki, art....
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