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Grafting a new book cover…

04 September 2012

So back to earth with a bump after a rather wonderful summer off and onwards and upwards with the continued creation of a series of anthology book covers.
The first two books, as I showed in my previous post: Judging Books By Their Covers are now out and available in the big wide world, and two more are close to complete and ready to go to print. Exciting times.
Book 3 in the series is called ‘The Graft’. Its another superb collection of narratives by a collection of both new and established, gifted authors.
This cover illustration makes use of another of my (long suffering for their mother’s artistic whims) apprentice’s silhouettes. This time posed as a hard grafting woodcutter, working through a forest that ever increases in depth and darkness… A sneakily placed ‘grafted’ apple pays homage to the alternative interpretation of the title.


Judging books by their covers…

04 August 2012

I’ve been busy lately working on a series of book covers for Anthologies of Stories published by Chapter One Promotions. The Anthologies are all the results of writing competitions and are therefore cram packed with fresh new writing talent alongside some more established authors. The design briefs for the covers have been as diverse and intriguing as the stories within and have been a delight to work on. Two books are now complete with more files winging their way to the printers as I type. I’m looking forward to adding the full series to my own book collection as well as my portfolio.

Cover design for 'Infinite' An Anthology of Stories published by Chapter One Promotions

Cover design for 'The Beginning' An Anthology of Stories published by Chapter One Promotions