Tinsel Rain Cover
Shaenon: I got to create the cover for Moe Lane’s newest novel, Tinsel Rain, currently funding on Kickstarter. Check it out! If you back at any level, you get desktop/phone wallpaper with my illustration.
Channing: Deliciously deco! I realize there is a famous adage about not judging a book by its cover, but in this case I can’t help but judge it, and judge it favorably.
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Looks really neat!
That’s art deco, isn’t it? I told myself i wasn’t going to like art deco but here i am liking it.
Beautiful homage to the original movie poster for the silent classic Metropolis.
Exactly.
So, speaking as a cinemopolist, it does look like it is from “Metropolis.” A fine execution or reconstitution—so support this fine Kickstarter novelist.
It is! Also, I can heartily professionally recommend Shaenon for commissions: she does excellent work, to spec, and on time. I have every intention of trying to get her for the *next* Tom Vargas novel, too.
I can’t wait!
Cool!
With a title like that, the book is asking for someone to write a filksong about it to the tune of Prince’s Purple Rain…
You are assuming that it isn’t a novel length lead-up to a “purple rain” filk. I remember an Asimov story that was five pages of lead-up to a “give my regards to Broadway” filk.
My alpha reader made me take out the Elizabeth Barrett Browning filk. She said it wasn’t bad, but it didn’t even remotely fit the tone of the book:
How do we hate thee? Let us count the ways.
We hate you for the slaves you find and catch
The lives you blight, the mages that you snatch
For your ends so wicked, full of disgrace.
We hate you for how you seek to take and raze
All other realms, to build your land of fright.
We hate you freely, for your noxious might.
We hate you purely, with most righteous rage.
We hate you with the taste of your abuse
Fresh in our mouths; it tests our kingdom’s faith.
We hate you with a strength we shall not lose
As years go on. We hate with all our breaths,
Words, deeds, for all our lives; and, if we might choose,
We shall but hate you still past your realm’s death.
So, meso-american with quetzlcoatl on the left pillar, pictograms on the right and a sacrificial mask on the central character, art-deco background and a staging that imitates “Metropolis”.
Is the story about a Broadway troupe that hides an Aztec cult that cuts the hearts out of critics and involved in a revolution to reinvigorate theatre with plays about securing good harvests without building large step pyramids?
…No, but that’s pretty good. You should totally write that up. It’d make for a fun tabletop RPG scenario, if you’re more interested in that than fiction. 🙂
Holy carp, sensei noticed me!
Thank you for saying my idea could be interesting, I was trying to channel my inner Pratchett and extract as much as possible from a single image to build a tangent.
You’re welcome. Now go write it. 🙂
Aye, there’s the rub.