Astrid Scholte on the art of a book trailer
Four Dead Queens author Astrid Scholte knows movies inside out, and here she discusses the art of producing an effective book trailer.
I consider myself a bit of a trailer expert.… Read the rest
Tales from the bookstore floor
Elias Greig, author of the wonderfully titled (but sure to invoke involuntary shudders from booksellers) I Can’t Remember the Title But the Cover is Blue discusses his new book, and how it exposes the realities of working in retail, and in particular many people’s idea of a dream job – working in a bookshop. … Read the rest
Behind the cover of Lenny’s Book of Everything
Karen Foxlee‘s outstanding new novel Lenny’s Book of Everything is a story of heartbreak and healing that young and old are guaranteed to fall in love with. Creating a gorgeous cover for it was to be quite a challenge, so here’s editor Radhiah to explain how it came about:
The cover for Lenny’s Book of Everything had to be something special to capture the beauty, wonder and complexity, joy and grief of the book itself—a very tall order for any cover!… Read the rest
Designing the cover for Clementine Ford’s Fight Like a Girl
Following our blog posts on a series redesign, we look behind the scenes of another cover design – this time Fight Like A Girl – Clementine Ford’s forthcoming book, a personal and fearless call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised.… Read the rest
Diary of a series redesign: One Direction to Rule Them All
In the second of our series on book cover design & redesigning a series, we take the four options discussed in the last blog post and take them to The Covers Meeting…
And so the time had come to choose a design direction for our Hidden Series re-jackets. … Read the rest
Diary of a series redesign… The Hidden by Lian Tanner
In news just to hand: everybody in the entirety of the world judges books by their covers. That is what covers are for, to help the reader judge: What is this book and is it for me? … Read the rest