Book cover illustration for Steven Barnes' Assassin - artwork by Duncan Long

Here’s a sneak peek a the new book cover illustration I did a few days ago for Steven Barnes’ novel Assassin. The book comes out in November (2010) from ISFiC Press.

I won’t give the plot away, but the story basically deals with the class of cultures during the Middle Ages. With that in mind, I “built” a Crusader’s castle in the background while having the central character, an assassin preparing for a surprise attack, lurking in the shadows in the foreground.

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Duncan Long is a freelance book cover illustrator for HarperCollins, PS Publishing, Pocket Books, Solomon Press, Fort Ross, and many other publishers and self-publishing authors. See his cover illustrations at: http://DuncanLong.com/art.html
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