Reprinted with permission of Stacy Ericson
Arthur Rackham is one of my all-time favorite illustrators, so I was excited to see Stacy Ericson’s iphone images manipulated to look like Rackham paintings. They made me wonder about illustration. Illustration in adult fantasy has been sparse and (to my mind) uninteresting as long as I’ve been paying attention, but with new digital graphics possibilities, why shouldn’t authors who are publishing online — especially authors who are self-publishing — have illustrations, decorations, illuminations, etc.? Why shouldn’t an e-book be a thing of beauty far beyond what any print publisher could afford to create?
How about it, authors? What would you put into the dream e-edition of your book? And readers, what would you see as added value in a deluxe e-book?
