I had a long thoughtful post in my head, all about how I thought this post was especially interesting in light of the Liar cover controversy (now rectified), but my brain for thinking seems to still be on the plane from last night (or gone completely. This image seems particularly apt right now). [...]
Turning the blog over to Intern Jenny for her announcement of the winner of the cover design contest! Take it away, Jenny!
All of your cover designs were so great that it was hard to choose just one. Ultimately I had to envision myself perusing the YA section of the book store, not tough [...]
There’s been lots of serious talk about book covers recently, so let’s have a little fun today, shall we? I’m totally stealing my idea for this post from the Alien Onions, who blogged:
CREATE YOUR DEBUT YA COVER
1 – Go to Fake Name Generator. The name that appears is your author name.
2 – Go [...]
There’s been a lot of talk on the blogosphere lately about the US cover for Justine Larbalestier’s Liar, which comes out from Bloomsbury this fall. Justine herself wrote a fantastic post about the issues of race in cover design, which has been picked up by Publishers Weekly and Jezebel, among others. While I [...]
