Apparently even if I read reviews, I'm guilty of not reading them carefully. A gentleman named Mark Louis Baumgart was kind enough to write a thoughtful review of my novel Blood Hunter some time back. It was a meticulous piece on Amazon that sought to put the book in perspective on the horror paperback fiction landscape.
I noted it there somewhere along the way, happy to have it, of course, but I only noticed today that he included a bit of trivia several paragraphs deep.
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Apparently the cover painting artist on the original Pinnacle Books edition was done by E. T. Broeck Steadman, and a 17-year-old Ali Larter of Heroes was the model for his work. It was before she became an actress. Checking her bio, she must have been a Ford model at the time and just shy of heading to Italy, Japan and a few other places.
I honestly never knew that. A little googling located the author's website with his note on the work.
The character in the painting is a little younger than the character she more or less represents in the book, but it's still kind of fun to know.
I can't recall my original title for the book. Blood Hunter was the publisher's choice from a later list I submitted.
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My original cover idea was a clawed hand and forearm raking its way across the cover, back of said hand and the forearm covered with mud, leaves and Spanish moss as the human creatures in the tale used to form pelts for themselves.
Something similar had been done recently, so the editor asked for another idea.
I suggested a swamp.
"What's a swamp look like?" she asked from her New York City desk.
I had a Louisiana cypress swamp in mind. By the time notes were conveyed, the swamp took on a more lush look and the character most-closely aligned to the one on the cover lost a few years.
So it goes, it's still a catchy image for one of my favorites of my early works.
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