Cover Art for Realms of Fantasy magazine, December 2007

Here is the latest (and almost certainly the most purple) Realms of Fantasy cover. Once again they put the authors’ names on there, which is always fun, and look, they even put my name first. I initially thought that this must be because they think I’m terrific and special, but a more thorough analysis reveals that they put the names in alphabetical order and made the common mistake of thinking that my last name is “Barr Kirtley” when it is in fact just “Kirtley.” No big deal (especially if it means I get to be first), though this sort of thing does worry me that any potential novels I might happen to publish in the future are going to be routinely misshelved.