Jon Foster recently sent in this painting for Dragon and Liberator, the final book in Timothy Zahn's Dragonback series.Usually I am somewhat grateful when a series is ending. Series eat up so much of our list and the requirements of them can sometimes be confining. By the time you get through six, eight, twelve books it's nice to move on and have an opportunity to begin something fresh with that artist or have the space to bring in another artist.
But I'm sad to see the Dragonback series come to a close. I love working with Jon and I was always particularly excited to see what he would come up with for these books. A boy and his pet tattoo dragon - you really can't beat that.
I like all of them but I think Dragon and Herdsman is my favorite. We had an alternate sketch for Dragon and Liberator that was very strong but ultimately we liked how this image made a nice bookend with the first cover.
(Here is a more indepth post about series)