Here’s a book cover I illustrated back in 2002 – how time flies!

Here’s the back page blurb that I was given to generate ideas for this illustration…

Babies born in hospitals can have their identification bracelettes muddled and grow up with the wrong parents, but sometimes babies are even born into another dimension and grow up in the wrong universe. These misbirths have to be rectified, but the entities who control the dimensiverses are not too good at it. And to compound Their problems, They have a Minor Alignment on the way.

Earth’s dimension is rushing head-on for a short-circuit with another containing a world steeped in ancient magic and where science is banned. Several people, and other things, are in line for a spaced-out trip, whether they like it or not. When rock musicians and their badly behaved roadies, the most famous (and most egocentric) racehorse ever, a mystical young widow, and others, from late 1960’s Earth collide with wizards, a medieval king as dangerous as a schitzophrenic cruise missile, and the last of the magic dragons, chaos is bound to ensue.  A senior witch, her ale-drinking, tobacco-smoking, dart-playing delinquent feline assistant and her two compatriots must surely help matters … oh yeah?

Add a power-crazed Elven queen with a mission to conquer the old world, gladiator teams and their management (who seem strangely familiar), a hundred wine-swilling man-mad nuns and their nymphomaniac Gothic high priestess, castle guards and staff with not much of a brain between them … and The Prince Formerly Known As Frog … and the already shakey misbirth correction programme is bound to be falter.

And it’s down to novice wizard Zolin to save the day. So it could all work out fine in the end … or not.

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