“Where Sleaze Meets Artistry”: 12 Great Crime Novel Covers
“Women with desire and devilry in their eyes. Detectives with pistols in their paws and not enough luck to fill a matchbox. Damp, deserted roadways. Hot-sheet motels. Women in peril, ...
Six Themed Lit Blogs You Should Follow
From an attempt to illustrate every page of Finnegans Wake to the books we’re given as presents, six bookish blogs we love.
The Transatlantic Book War #1
A London-based publisher recently asked me, “How would you compare US and UK book cover designs?” I had no intelligent answer for him—I’d never taken the time to study the ...
Lewis Csizmazia: Book Cover Designer at Simon and Schuster
The editors can go two ways—they might give me a brief synopsis of the book’s plot and say, “It will sit alongside these certain titles, this is the market,” and ...
Never Judge A Book By Its Cover
Never judge a book by its cover, as the old saying goes. Well, I’ve been thinking a bit about book covers recently. It’s partly down to my last blog with ...