{"id":1874,"date":"2015-06-03T09:30:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T17:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2015-06-22T04:22:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T12:22:09","slug":"dinosaur-wars-book-4-cover-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/03\/dinosaur-wars-book-4-cover-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaur Wars book 4 cover art"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"King<\/a>What’s that? A T rex with a lion’s mane? And have those dinosaur wranglers lost their minds? They’re about to get munched by an angry parentalsaurus while roping junior!<\/p>\n

But of course, such things are common in THE NEW WILD WEST, where dinosaurs live again and cowboys and cowgirls are nervous.<\/p>\n

This is the new cover art for the fourth book in my Dinosaur Wars series, soon to be formally released in ebook and paperback formats. I like the lion mane idea. Both T rex and Leo are considered King Of The Beasts in their times. Rexxy looks even scarier with that dark, bushy, feather-fur headwear. Click the image for a closer look.<\/p>\n

And these days, with more fur and feathers being discovered on dino fossils almost daily, we need to keep up-to-date in our book illustrations. Some folks feel my depictions of dinos go too far toward a mammal-like appearance, but I don’t know–the big beasties in my book might just turn out to be wearing what all fashion-conscious dinosaurs will wear in the future.<\/p>\n

So, let the movie Jurassic World feature naked, scaly dinos. The evidence is starting to stack against that portrayal.<\/p>\n

Time–and fossils–will tell.<\/p>\n

Hot news item June 12, 2015: Dinosaur Tales has been published as an ebook and a paperback! Here’s a link to the new Amazon page for it:<\/p>\n

Dinosaur Wars 4: Dinosaur Tales<\/a><\/p>\n

Versions in other ebook formats will be coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With more fur and feathers being discovered on dino fossils almost daily, we need to keep up-to-date in our book illustrations. Tyranno-lion, anybody? Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,9],"tags":[35,350,240,51,18,254],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author","category-dinosaur-country","tag-dinosaur-wars","tag-jurassic-world","tag-new","tag-novel","tag-tyrannosaur","tag-young-adult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}