Possible final shipping cover art for Faerie Blood!

[annathepiper]

Check it out, Internets! Kiri Moth just sent me what may well be the final shipping version of the Faerie Blood second edition cover art!

Light and Music and Magic

Barring any final tweaks Dara will need her to make to get the layout to work, I’m thinking this is it. I really like the colors of Kendis’ outfit, and the overall feel of the scene being drenched in light, which is absolutely appropriate given that the idea here is that Kendis is not only playing her violin, she’s throwing off a huge swirl of magical power. And magic does make a light show in her universe, so!

Accordingly I’m also pretty okay with the background seeming a bit washed out by comparison–because it’s getting drenched in that light. And also, title and blurb text and such need to go cover most of the background anyway, so it’s all right if they’re much less distinct by comparison than Kendis herself!

Tell me what you think, people, and remember–if you want an ebook or a print book with this gorgeous thing on it, the Kickstarter is waiting right over here!

Mirrored from angelahighland.com.

Comments

[thunderpigeon.livejournal.com]

Is it a wraparound cover, or will there be bands above and below with title information? If it's a wraparound, with Kendis' elbow right by the spine of the book, and the willow tree on the back cover, that could be really cool (though it's hard to tell if the sky will have space for your name and the book's title).

I also think the cover picture looks a lot more like the image I had of Kendis while reading the book than the original did. Don't get me wrong, I love Deena's cover art, but on this book it seemed almost like she was responding to all the book covers out there that whitewash the heroes by taking it too far in the other direction. Which, you know, is preferable to the book covers that tone down ethnic features or turn characters white (the most egregious being the classic cover to A Wizard of Earthsea, where Ged is shown as a white guy on the back), but it's nice to see Kendis looking the way she's described.

I also like the thicket of roses in the lower right.

[annathepiper]

This will be a wraparound cover, yes! Kendis will be on the front, with the title and my name over her head, and the willow will be on the back with the blurb and the ISBN number. The spine will be straight down the middle. Dara's already done a test mockup with text placement on a previous version of the art, so she's got a good idea of where all the text will wind up.

Kiri's done an amazing job, yeah. :D I cannot WAIT to see what she'll be doing with Elessir and Christopher for the other two books!