BLACKWOOD cover art!
This, for us, is one of the most exciting parts of getting a book ready for publication – commissioning and then revealing awesome cover art for the books we’re publishing.
So…drum roll, please! Our first cover is for BLACKWOOD by Gwenda Bond. As you can see it is currently unadorned, so it isn’t quite final but we just couldn’t wait to give you a tease of what it will look like on the shelves.
Here is the book blurb for you again:
On Roanoke Island, the legend of the 114 people who mysteriously vanished from the Lost Colony hundreds of years ago is just an outdoor drama for the tourists, a story people tell. But when the island faces the sudden disappearance of 114 people now, an unlikely pair of 17-year-olds may be the only hope of bringing them back.
Miranda, a misfit girl from the island’s most infamous family, and Phillips, an exiled teen criminal who hears the voices of the dead, must dodge everyone from federal agents to long-dead alchemists as they work to uncover the secrets of the new Lost Colony. The one thing they can’t dodge is each other.
The artwork is by Steven Wood.
Well, what do you think?
Comments
Oh! That is gorgeous!! And such an interesting premise, too.
It sounds and looks really good!
That is so beautiful. Evocative and mysterious and… well, just perfect!
That is a really good looking cover!
What a gorgeous cover. Very striking!
Looks awesome, and the story’s exciting too!
Oh, that’s absolutely stunning!
Gorgeous work!
This is lovely — really eye-catching, and sounds like it perfectly suits the story.
WHOA. Nothing else I’m seeing on shelves even comes close. That’s an arresting image, there.
Gorgeous and compelling! Go Gwenda and Strange Chemistry:)
That is one gorgeous cover!
My 12yr old niece would buy that based on the cover alone.
That sounds awesome. I love the Roanoke story, have visited the island a couple times, and I would totally read this book–oh, and the cover is cool too!
that is so awesome. i almost wish that was the final cover, i.e. without writing on it, because then you would HAVE to pick it up and find out what it’s about!
Beautiful! That’s a cover I’d grab without even looking at the blurb.
It really is gorgeous, and evocative of not just curiosity, but a deep, primal unsettled feeling. You KNOW the story will have intrigue and mystery and a haunting kind of beauty, just by looking at the cover.
Oh, this looks AMAZING!!!
Wow, that looks amazing! Yay for Gwenda, and yay for SC for snagging such a fab person/writer!
YAWN! It does nothing for me. Makes me think of Cleopatra .
Blurb is well written, but I would never get past the artwork to actually pick up the book and read the blurb. Sorry.