Happy Thanksgiving! Today I am thankful for…

…my art team. Because they’re making me look good. Or at least better. I don’t know if I could ever look good.

Serpents of Legend now has a cover.

This is simply top-notch work by Douglas Deri, who’s new to my team but hopefully he’s enjoyed the experience enough to return.

Much of his work for this commission was for the serpents book, as I try and assign artists the same interior pieces that feature on teh cover, for consistency. But he also did what were originally called Clinging Vines and are now called Strangleweed, mostly because I needed to move a monster from A to B because of facing-page issues on layout, but also strangleweed just sounds cooler.

So the Serpents cover joins Garden of Evil in the “all I need is the back cover text” category.

I hope that those of you who are traveling (or have traveled) for the US Thanksgiving Day holiday do so safely and avoid tryptophan coma. I should have the third cover ready to go sometime next week.