Cover design is really important, can make or break a manuscript. Here are some covers, along with statements from the authors on what inspired them, that make me really want to read:
1. Megaphone Heart, Manuel Arturo Abreu (2013)
“It’s an X files toy I cut up and photographed :P”
Read it here.
2. Baby Babe, Ana Carrete (2012, Civil Coping Mechanisms)
“it’s my hand and i’m wearing ring pops and we put slime on top and it made a chemical reaction/started melting so we had to take the pictures really fast”
Get it here.
3. Fantasy, Ben Fama (2015, Ugly Duckling Presse)
“It was created by an illustrator named John Lisle… What i told him is this ‘You should do something people aren’t expecting. Which is why I thought of the odd flower I saw on your website … the flower from the future, a flower that will exist … maybe when we don’t.'”
Pre-order it here.
4. Swan Feast, Natalie Eilbert (2015, Coconut Poetry)
“The book is in large part a question about the significance of the Venus of Willendorf, my fascination and later pop-sensationalizing of her, and some of the sensationalizing involves us obviously having tons of sex and getting married. So. I wanted a cover that somehow conveyed that… I thought [Jasmine Golestaneh] would be really good for this, as she generates a lot of collagework twisting women, animals, and rainbow glitz. I told her what I wanted, which is what I always want: Gritty, grotesque, sexual landscape.”
Order it here in March.
5. Asuras, Jayinee Basu (2015, Civil Coping Mechanisms)
“The drawing is by my friend Rachel Wolfson. Asuras refer to knowledge-seeking entities. I liked the field-biologist aspect of the drawing since observational illustrations are one of the most basic methods of recording reality.”
Pre-order it here.