How to break in to book illustration

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Books of Virga: Dave Seeley works a great deal with models whom he photographs when composing his covers (c) SFBC

Sure, fantasy and sci-fi illustration had its heyday in the 1970s, when the market for pulp paperbacks was still booming. But publishing industry figures tell us that, unlike in the music industry, the digital market has plateaued somewhere around 30 or 40 per cent.

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