"Mind blowingly beautiful" is how Annalee Newitz at io9.com described the art work of Prophets of the Ghost Ants - Part One, The Roach Boy illustrated by Mozchops aka Paul Phippen.
My cross-genre novel depicts a future when humans adapt to a destroyed planet Earth by growing smaller with each generation until they are in parity with the planet's only other survivors, insects and other arthropods.
I had always wanted to do an illustrated version of Ghost Ants -- the content was just so visual and several reviewers and one well known author recommended I get some picture so readers could wrap their heads around the scale of the world. When I saw Mozchops' graphic novel Salsa Invertebraxa, I knew that he was the artist to do it. His book was the Sistine Chapel of insect art and I knew he would respond to my novel. He's an illustrator in the ranks of Gustav Dore, Maxfield Parrish and James Gurney. I am really excited to see what he does for Part 2, A People of the Blood.
The book is available as a Kindle ebook at Amazon.
More info: prophetsoftheghostants.com
Anand and his family approach the camp of the Roach Clans
Riding a Soldier Ant Into War
Pioneers Hauling the Ant Queens to a New Colony
The High Priests Enter the Stadium to Conduct the Fission Lottery
Anand Defends Himself Against a Moon Roach
Map of the United Queendoms
