I was gutted to read that cover artist Chris Moore died earlier this month.
He was best known for his science fiction cover work (especially for Philip K Dick), but I became a fan via the covers he did for the Craig Thomas thrillers in the 1980s. The Bear’s Tears is possibly my favourite book cover of all time.
I was fortunate to exchange emails with Chris about his work some years ago. A real loss.
See downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-artist-chris-moore/ for information on Chris Moore’s career.
New cover images for the ebook editions of Moscow 5000 and Emerald Decision have appeared online. These two books were of course originally published in 1979 and 1980 under the pseudonym David Grant. Based on the blurb it looks like Emerald Decision will be using the original text and not the text from the 1987 revised edition.
Both books will be available from 24 July 2023 and I believe they are the final two Craig Thomas novels to be published as ebooks by Canelo. Congratulations to all involved in getting to the finish line!
(Yes, that is indeed a Moscow 5000 inspired pun…)
Covers for the ebook editions of three more Craig Thomas books have appeared online.
Rat Trap, Wolfsbane and A Wild Justice will be released on 26 June 2023.
A cover image for Slipping Into shadow has appeared online with a publication date of 22 May 2022.
Cover images have appeared online for Canelo ebooks of A Hooded Crow and Playing With Cobras.
The publication date of the ebooks is 22 May 2022.
Just remembered to post that as of today (27 March) three more Craig Thomas novels are now available as ebooks, namely Snow Falcon, All the Grey Cats and The Last Raven.
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I’ve scanned in new images of the 2001 Warner paperbacks that featured art by David Scutt. You can find them on the Cover Gallery page.
I have added a Cover Gallery page with new scans of various paperbacks, grouped by edition. So far there are some Sphere and Fontana editions on there. More covers will be added in due course.
OK, that’s most of the pages moved across to WordPress. Certainly the 18 novel pages are there, plus the timeline, character list and other works pages.
Still to do will be a new page for cover images. The intention is that these will be new scans.
On the Other Works page I’ve added a little more information about the 1990 BBC Radio 4 story that Craig contributed to. And on my to do list is to add scans of a 1993 story he wrote for a car magazine.
Hopefully there are no broken links but if there are I will get to them in time.
I’ve been meaning to move the site over to WordPress for some time. That work will start now and things will gradually move across. In the meantime the old content will not be available.
