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  1. CAL celebrates our book cover designers and illustrators! Up today is Tristan Bowersox, a 3-time CAL Award finalist and 1-time Winner in Book Cover Design. Find out how you can get your own award-winning book cover at [email protected].
    #bookcoverdesign #graphicdesign #books

  2. Well this is exciting! My book cover for The Shadows of Pangea has been selected for best cover on All Author. I would be very appreciative if you could vote for my cover to win this months contest.
    allauthor.com/cover-of-the-mon

    #books #bookcovers #bookcoverdesign#competition

  3. Audio Interview: Elevating Indie Book Design

    ALLi Campaigns Manager Matty Dalrymple talks with book cover designer Rachel Valliere about improving indie book design through a crucial but often overlooked tool: the creative brief. Rachel explains how a well-crafted brief helps authors communicate their vision clearly,…
    selfpublishingadvice.org/podca

    #Podcast #authordesignercollaboration #bookcoverdesign #creativebrief #genreconventions
    @indieauthors

  4. The closest I'll get to self-promotion here is to tell you that, while I'm really proud of the covers I've designed for Matteson Wynn's Housekeeper series, the books themselves are wonderful, and everyone should be reading them. There's magic, a sentient house, fun characters, mystery, adventure, intrigue, snark, coffee, ghosts—has this list gotten away from me again?

    amazon.com/dp/B07K1T6MM4

    #Bookstodon
    #books
    #fantasybooks
    #fiction
    #blender3d
    #bookcoverdesign
    #indiebooks
    #noAI

  5. It didn't make it into the piece, but I briefly chatted with Zachary Petit about the influence of Rodrigo Corral on book cover design for this profile in Fast Company:

    archive.today/2025.04.09-10561

    #books #bookcoverdesign #bookcovers #design

  6. Graphic designer and CAL member Tristan Bowersox creates promotional screens and award-winning book covers through his design company, TB McQueen Creative. tbmcqueen.com
    #GraphicDesign #bookcoverdesign #bookcoverart #books

  7. Yet another way that the publishing industry stereotypes and marginalizes minority writers.

    #bookstodon #publishing #BookCoverDesign #writers

    The Hidden Racism of Book Cover Design | The Walrus
    thewalrus.ca/the-hidden-racism

  8. *SIGH* I don't know why the social card isn't showing properly on here, but covers in this post include Luke Bird's black and white horror for Supplication by Canadian author Nour Abi-Nakhoul published this month by Influx Press, and Jack Smyth's witty retro cover for MILF by Paloma Faith published by Ebury, if you want a flavour of what is included...

    casualoptimist.com/blog/2024/0

    #books #bookcoverdesign #design

  9. Join us at the Archive on Thursday for a presentation by Francisco Roca, A Certain Cotta: Book-Cover Design from Buenos Aires.

    In 1962, young graphic artist Juan Ángel Cotta died in a car crash after designing 103 covers for Los Libros del Mirasol — one of South America’s most unique and appealingly-illustrated book collections. Designers Roca and Leandro Castelao assembled his work into a single volume.

    letterformarchive.org/shop/a-c
    #ArgentinianDesign #GraphicDesign #BookCoverDesign #BookDesign

  10. Here's a bit more about Eli Mock's cover design for Perfume & Pain by Anna Dorn (one of several pink covers this month) along with the rest of PRINT's best book covers of May

    printmag.com/book-covers/23-of

    #books #bookcovers #bookcoverdesign #design

  11. So many covers, so many colours ... bringing together all cover editions of "Crooked Seeds" by Karen Jennings, available in the UK from Holland House Books, & launching in South Africa this week from Karavan Press.
    Can you remember which cover is from which country/continent?

    Grab a copy from Holland House meanwhile: hhousebooks.com/books/crooked-

    #outnow #newtitles #literature #bookcover #southafrica #africanliterature #whattoreadnext #literaryfiction #bookstodon #books #reading #bookcoverdesign

  12. Cover reveal for my next book, The Artificer's Knot! The art is the work of the very talented JCalebDesign.com and I'm thrilled with it. The book is planned to release May 1, but pre-orders and eARCs for reviewers are available NOW! Get this gaslamp gangster action fantasy today!

    #fantasy #WritingCommunity #amwriting #bookcover #coverreveal #teaser #gaslamp #amwritingfantasy #gaslampfantasy #indieauthor #writerslife #wip #BookBoost #readers #bookstodon #bookreview #bookcoverdesign #bookcovers

  13. #BookCoverDesign ideas welcome for

    Beyond the Cold War: Presidential Rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe brings scholars from Central and Eastern Europe and the United States together to study presidential rhetoric to make a compelling case for treating the leaders of the region with their own agency, rather than as agents of others.

    #BeyondTheColdWar
    #CEE #President #TeamRhetoric

  14. Interested in book cover design?
    Check out the 2023 shortlist from The Australian Book Design Awards for inspiration, and also Thuy On's article for ArtsHub where authors speak about the cover design process. Two links below.

    ArtsHub article: artshub.com.au/news/features/w

    2023 Australian Book Design Awards Shortlist:
    abda.com.au/2023-australian-bo

    #writingcommunity #bookcover #bookcoverdesign #Australia #AustralianWriters #AustralianAuthors #AustralianDesigners #design #bookstodon #Author