Henry Vogelさんのイラストまとめ

#WriteForMe Never forget that story comes first. Messages, if you have them, must serve the story. Story serves the message in sermons, and sermons rarely appeal to those who don't already agree with you. If you want to spread "the Word," entertain before you preach.

#WriteForMe If your story doesn't excite you, what are the chances it will excite a reader? If your story's first reader (that's you) doesn't love it, there probably won't be a second reader. Put simply, love 'em or leave 'em.

#SciFiDaily returns after a busy few days with "Back to Atlantis" by Boris & Julie Bell. I don't know if this ties to Aquaman or sprang from the artists' imaginations, but the bright, vibrant colors and sci-fi elements appeal to me. I hope you also enjoy them.

#SciFiDaily researched this beautiful Gerald Parel painting and discovered it's... He-Man. Best guess is the woman is Teela. Masters of the Universe appeared a year into my marriage, so I never got into it. That will change if this version ever hits the screen (big or small).

#SciFiDaily and #SwordAndPlanet have merged. Finding just the right images and composing comments for them takes about an hour out of each morning. I don't have time to handle both anymore. I'll kick off the combined series with this image filled with things I love about sci-fi.

#SwordAndPlanet loves airships. That's why I use them in my Scout series. This image by DeviantArt's SnowSkadi is the first one I've seen that matches my vision of those airships. It's a tenuous connection to S&P, but I couldn't resist posting the image.

#SciFiDaily gets a Star Trek vibe from this image. I think it's mostly due to the saucer-shaped forward section, though the aft section bears a mild resemblance to the Enterprise D (wider and flatter than in TOS). It would make a good, albeit generic, space opera cover.

#SwordAndPlanet This is Ken Kelly week, since I just found several of his S&P painting. We'll start with Descent, which was a cover for Lyn Carter's Jandar of Callisto. Kelly is a brilliant illustrator, but the names given his paintings are unimaginative. More on this tomorrow.

#SwordAndPlanet Two teenagers running from agents of the star-spanning Federation come to Earth to rescue their parents. Kevin Johnson's cover presents the situation effectively and piqued my curiosity. Is it S&P if the author reverses the tropes? I say yes, and will read it.

#SwordAndPlanet offers this Storn Cook bit of prototypical S&P art. It's got the proper mixture of future and archaic weaponry, a scantily clad alien babe, and a man who's obviously out of place. I believe this was an RPG commission rather than a book cover. Too bad. I'd read it!