{"id":4967,"date":"2017-02-15T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/?p=4967"},"modified":"2017-02-24T08:16:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T13:16:38","slug":"cover-art-heart-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/cover-art-heart-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Art – Heart of the Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey there folks! \u00a0We are almost all done showing off the covers of the books that we are preparing for this next volume of Tellest books (thanks once again to our awesome Kickstarter backers for getting us the start we needed).<\/p>\n

Today, we’re going to begin showing off the finalized covers of our new properties. \u00a0In addition to the five books that are serving as sequels, we’ve also got three books that are starting their own storylines. \u00a0One of these is a brand new character, but the others star an established character at various points in his life. \u00a0We’re going to take a look at one of\u00a0those<\/em> two now, so buckle in!<\/p>\n

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Heart of the Forest<\/em> stars a younger Steel Tip than what we’ve seen in the Child of the Stars series. \u00a0This book\u2014a novelization of an unreleased game\u2014demonstrates the secret prince’s first foray onto mainland Draconis.<\/p>\n

Leo started us off with a lot more green than we typically see, except for what we had of Awake<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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After establishing a few things, Leo puts a tighter emphasis on some of our characters.<\/p>\n

Heart of the Forest<\/em> feels like a classic fantasy. \u00a0There’s a narrative that plays very well into a videogame, and it feels a bit simpler and more concise. \u00a0That’s not to say that there won’t be surprises, but it’ll be a book that I think any\u00a0fantasy reader will be able to get into.<\/p>\n

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There’s a little more panache put into place in this third iteration of the cover. \u00a0You can see much more clearly here that Heart of the Forest<\/em> has a lot of focus on characters of different races. \u00a0We are getting into this a little more in this second set of books, but nothing expresses it so much as this novel. \u00a0Leo was up to the task, giving us goblins, werebears, gnolls, lagano and humans.<\/p>\n

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And here you have our finished take on the piece. \u00a0The front cover is more refined, and certain characters have been added. \u00a0We lost the lagano that we had in there, but things just felt a little too cluttered. We think it was for the best, but rest assured, the book is going to be jam packed full of more races than you typically get in a Tellest book. It’s going to be a fun little adventure, and I can’t wait to show you more as we draw closer to the release of Heart of the Forest in early 2018!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey there folks! \u00a0We are almost all done showing off the covers of the books that we are preparing for this next volume of Tellest books (thanks once again to our awesome Kickstarter backers for getting us the start we needed). Today, we’re going to begin showing off the finalized covers of our new properties. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[346],"tags":[364,362,1007,106],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/heart-forest5.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-1i7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4973,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions\/4973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}