It’s another week, and another opportunity for me to gush over cover art 🙂 This time I figured I’d just pull some misc ones out of the hat instead of focusing in on one artist. In no particular order…
I’ve been in love with Patricia Briggs for what seems like forever. Hands down, everything she writes I’ll read. And re-read. And then re-read again. I had the hardest time picking which cover I wanted to feature for her, because I think Dan dos Santos is a genius when it comes to art, period, but particularly when it comes to taking something out of a book and bringing it to life on the cover. And I particularly love how, on the Mercy Thompson covers, her tattoos change depending on what is inside the book. It’s awesome. You can look at the cover and figure out what’s going on without even having to read the back! Anyway, because I couldn’t choose what cover to feature, I just picked one at random, so here’s Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs. And here’s his website, so you can see what amazing artwork he’s done: http://www.dandossantos.com/
Next up is Love Like Ghosts… part of the Bay City Paranormal Investigations series by Ally Blue and featuring the delectable Adrian and Greg in their continuing relationship. It’s a romance, but it’s more than that and this cover perfectly portrays that. Ally writes good ghosts… I don’t even know how else to describe it. It’s original and enthralling. I love this series, and cover artist Kanaxa has taken everything that is good about this book and managed to portray it perfectly on the cover. Plus, that script!! Awesomesauce.
And finally I want to drool over Demon Whisperer by Tawny Stokes. Tawny is one of my closest friends and in Demon Whisperer she’s written a book that I literally could not put down. Seriously, it’s got demons, necromancers and an International Order of Exorcists… And this rocking cover by April Martinez. The colours, the guy, his eyes! If you haven’t read this book, you have to check it out.
Actually, that goes for all three… Pardon me while I go re-read something…
I just got my cover for Pandamonium and I’m pretty excited! The cover artist was having a hard time finding just the right panda photo to go with the guy so I offered some of my own pictures from when I was in China at the Panda Breeding Center in Chengdu. So, my own photo is on my cover! How cool is that?!?
