Cover Reveal!

I’m so thriller to share the book jacket for Trish Doller’s long-awaited (and worth it!) debut novel Something Like Normal, which Bloomsbury will publish in June 2012. Are you ready for this awesome?

I do highly recommend you check out Trish’s tumblr, especially if you like teases of her fabulous wips, or hot boys. And who [...]

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Judging a Book By Its Cover

Fellow Colorado agent Kristin Nelson shared a link today from PW’s ShelfTalker blog. I won’t repeat Kristin’s fab overview of the problems with a lot of covers, but I do want to re-emphasize the comment from Elizabeth Bluemle about making decisions for an entire industry based on a single person’s opinion:
I also understand that publishers [...]

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Another fabulous cover!

It’s a big week for covers at kt literary! Monster-lovin’ author Carrie Harris‘ debut YA novel BAD TASTE IN BOYS has a July 2011 pub date and an eye-droppingly gorgeous cover. Think I’m being excessive in my praise? Check it:
The delicious blurb:
Someone’s been a very bad zombie.
Super-smartie Kate Grable gets to play doctor, [...]

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Open Thread

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). [...]

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A Cover Winner

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 [...]

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