Dropship Down Cover Art!

The Cover Art for Dropship Down

I’m happy to reveal the cover of my next book, Dropship Down (Book one of the Total War: Clausewitz series). The artwork is once again by the wonderful Daria and you should definitely stop by her website and take a look. The picture depicts the opening scene of the book.

I’m not completely certain when it’s going to be available, so I’m going to call it Soon ™. I’m still editing the text and fixing things. It’ll be ready when it’s ready, but I’m still not finding anything that I’m unhappy with. Beta readers are happy with it too, so it doesn’t look like there are any huge hurdles ahead.

Release of the book will start off on itch.io. That’s still the cheapest place to get the e-book and there it’ll include a pdf of the as-printed version, a high rez version of this cover art and possibly other goodies like the OpenSCAD file that generates the (rough) Droopy model that was used for composition on the cover.

I’m also hoping to have a model of the Droopy in a game engine soon, which should make it possible to make more scenes easily. Eventually, I’d love to have an asset library for this setting that can be used to make screenshots to illustrate things and perhaps more.

Where are the Pressure Tanks?

As could happen to anyone, I was talking to Daria about the cover art for Dropship Down (which is going to be very cool, should have a WIP soon). Obviously, this all involves a crashing Dropship, which naturally leads to fire and smoke. My mind then gets to wondering where the pressure tanks are in the Dropship, so I sat down and drew them into my OpenSCAD model.

About 7000 litres of LH2 and 2000 litres of O2 would fit. Which isn’t as much energy as you’d think. Luckily, Emdrives don’t actually work in the real world, so it should be plenty.