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Title: Just Got the Cover Art in for My New Book!!! Post by: indianasmith on May 06, 2015, 05:08:13 PM I love this! I think the cover alone is going to sell some books!!!
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Indianasmith/Version%2007_zps6y3u68n8.jpg) (http://s67.photobucket.com/user/Indianasmith/media/Version%2007_zps6y3u68n8.jpg.html) Title: Re: Just Got the Cover Art in for My New Book!!! Post by: lester1/2jr on May 06, 2015, 08:12:43 PM nice
Title: Re: Just Got the Cover Art in for My New Book!!! Post by: Allhallowsday on May 06, 2015, 10:24:34 PM Looks great. An incidental Christ with Pilate's face obscured, perhaps, pleading for Him. And of course, the Blood spilt.
Congratulations. Title: Re: Just Got the Cover Art in for My New Book!!! Post by: indianasmith on May 06, 2015, 11:16:58 PM The painting is a famous work from the Renaissance entitled "Ecce Homo" ("Behold the Man!").
Title: Re: Just Got the Cover Art in for My New Book!!! Post by: lester1/2jr on May 06, 2015, 11:45:49 PM Pilate was evidently a very brutal guy. You wonder how much of the humanization in the gospels was just to make the Jews look that much worse.
Title: Re: Just Got the Cover Art in for My New Book!!! Post by: indianasmith on May 07, 2015, 06:24:40 AM In researching my book, I found that there are only six sources that mention Pilate as anything more than a footnote:
the four Gospels, and the Jewish accounts composed by Philo and Josephus. While both of them portray him as a monster, it's worth noting that Josephus was writing some 50 years later, in the court of the Flavian emperors, where bashing the Julio-Claudians and their subordinates was highly fashionable. Philo was closer to the time frame in question, but he was living in Alexandria and was also pretty biased. Judea was a tough province to govern, and Pilate was tough as nails, no doubt. But was he a monster? Or just the agent of a monstrous system? I would LOVE to get some feedback from the forum members on this one when it comes out! Title: Re: Just Got the Cover Art in for My New Book!!! Post by: ER on May 07, 2015, 10:51:55 AM If everyone requested the local library buy a copy, I bet we could put quite a few sales in indy's corner.
Title: Re: Just Got the Cover Art in for My New Book!!! Post by: Allhallowsday on May 07, 2015, 05:22:20 PM In researching my book, I found that there are only six sources that mention Pilate as anything more than a footnote: the four Gospels, and the Jewish accounts composed by Philo and Josephus. While both of them portray him as a monster, it's worth noting that Josephus was writing some 50 years later, in the court of the Flavian emperors, where bashing the Julio-Claudians and their subordinates was highly fashionable. Philo was closer to the time frame in question, but he was living in Alexandria and was also pretty biased. Judea was a tough province to govern, and Pilate was tough as nails, no doubt. But was he a monster? Or just the agent of a monstrous system? I would LOVE to get some feedback from the forum members on this one when it comes out! Have you read INFERNO by LARRY NIVEN and JERRY POURNELLE? It's a wonderful "speculative" novel, or, "fantasy" about redemption. Title: Re: Just Got the Cover Art in for My New Book!!! Post by: indianasmith on May 07, 2015, 09:04:55 PM It sure sounds familiar.
I remember reading Robert Heinlein's JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE back in the 80's and being fascinated and a bit offended at the same time. I also read one called BEHOLD THE MAN and was completely offended by it! LOL Title: Re: Just Got the Cover Art in for My New Book!!! Post by: Allhallowsday on May 07, 2015, 09:36:48 PM It sure sounds familiar. There is a deep Christianity at the core of INFERNO. I won't reveal "the secret" of INFERNO but say it is about redemption. How are the irredeemable redeemable? Only in Christianity that I have found. I remember reading Robert Heinlein's JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE back in the 80's and being fascinated and a bit offended at the same time. I also read one called BEHOLD THE MAN and was completely offended by it! LOL Title: Re: Just Got the Cover Art in for My New Book!!! Post by: indianasmith on May 07, 2015, 09:44:47 PM I'll have to check it out then. When was it published?
Title: Re: Just Got the Cover Art in for My New Book!!! Post by: Allhallowsday on May 08, 2015, 10:31:12 AM I'll have to check it out then. When was it published? 1976 I think; probably still in print. Don't read the capsule synopsis if you want to appreciate the wonderful revelation of redemption during your own read: http://www.amazon.com/Inferno-Larry-Niven/dp/0765316765/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1431098920&sr=1-1&keywords=inferno+larry+niven+and+jerry+pournelle (http://www.amazon.com/Inferno-Larry-Niven/dp/0765316765/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1431098920&sr=1-1&keywords=inferno+larry+niven+and+jerry+pournelle) Title: Re: Just Got the Cover Art in for My New Book!!! Post by: Rev. Powell on May 08, 2015, 04:59:50 PM I'm hoping to have cool cover art for my new book to share soon... but I will keep you in suspense. :teddyr:
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