COVER ART FOR THE TRAVELER'S TALES BY BRIAN SAGE POPLIN

The Traveler's Tales is about our characters striking out onto the traveling worlds, so I wanted to feature a traveling world merging with a planet on the cover. Being that TTT is also a philosophical novel, I very much wanted to parody the common western/romantic philosophy trope of using Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog as a cover image for generic philosophy books. The other inspirations for the style, fitting for my Great American Science-Fantasy Novel, are the American landscape painters of the early 19th century, especially Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, and Albert Bierstadt.

The full painting, Gevere below the Traveling World by Brian Sage Poplin, is below.