How a book cover is designed (Blameless, by Gail Carriger)

One of my holiday reading books was Soulless, by Gail Carriger.  In a most useful comment, Tehani Wessely gave a link to this YouTube video, which shows the design process for the third book in the Parasol Protectorate series, Blameless (Soulless, Changeless, Blameless comprise the series so far).  So, in case you don't read the comments on my blog as assiduously as I do...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoDCiTsS7dU .  One to share with Visual Art teachers, English teachers...

Here are the three Parasol Protectorate covers so far.  I do rather like the combination of vintage and modern.

source of images is the author's website, www.gailcarriger.com

Cheers (and many thanks, Tehani!)

Ruth

PS. I do rather like the moment in the video when they go ooops, the Eiffel Tower has to go - and also watching cars being erased.  Fascinating to see the process of graphic design.

PPS.  Blameless isn't out till September. Having really enjoyed the first two, I'll be definitely reading it.  How could one not wish to know more about Alexia Tarabotti?  And parasols, vampires, dirigibles, werewolves and so forth?

PPPS Gail Carriger has one of the best author bio pieces I've read:

Ms. Carriger began writing in order to cope with being raised in obscurity by an expatriate Brit and an incurable curmudgeon. She escaped small town life and inadvertently acquired several degrees in Higher Learning. Ms. Carriger then traveled the historic cities of Europe, subsisting entirely on biscuits secreted in her handbag. She now resides in the Colonies, surrounded by fantastic shoes, where she insists on tea imported directly from London. She is fond of teeny tiny hats and tropical fruit.

Scott Westerfeld

If I wanted to prepare the pretty-much-ultimate-and-authoritative blog entry on Scott Westerfeld.  You know, Uglies,

Peeps

Leviathan.

You know, don't you?  Yup.

Well, I wouldn't bother writing it, because the fabulous folk at CMIS have done it.  Their Tuesday Spotlight on Scott Westerfeld is all you need. 

I'm off to scull a Diet Coke and read the newspaper.  My work here is done.

Cheers

Ruth

image source: www.bookdepository.com    

Is this the next Twilight?

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Some of my students seem to think so - they're desperate to read about Grace and Sam (he's a werewolf in winter, a human being in summer, and coming close is the year when he won't change back when winter ends...).  My lovely local bookshop's teen/fantasy specialist told me Shiver is her new favourite book.

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First of a trilogy (Linger, the second book, cover below, is out next year), film rights already sold (unsurprisingly) and author Maggie Stiefvater has a website here.  She has a book trailer for Shiver here, along with some other resources and reviews..

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Cheers

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Ruth

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PS. Above is the hardcover of Shiver; a paperback is also available.  Covers sourced from the author's website..