I had the pleasure of speaking on The Art of Book Cover Design panel at the Historical Novel Society conference last month with Emily Victorson from Allium Press , Sarah Johnson from Reading the Past , Anna Michels from Sourcebooks , and Kris Waldherr from Art and Words . We each presented on different aspects of designing historical fiction covers, and my task was to discuss my approach and trends in the genre. In case you missed it, or if you attended and would like to have a copy of your own, here is my portion of the presentation! Anna Michels, Kris Waldherr, myself, and Sarah Johnson The first thing I do when working on a cover is determine the genre or subgenre and the target audience, and then I spend some time browsing through the bestsellers to see which covers are selling books and what they look like. It’s important that you pay attention to cover trends when creating yours. You may think your cover is going to stand out because it’s so different from others in
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Please join me in congratulating Priscilla Royal on the publication of Elegy to Murder , the sixteenth installment in her Medieval Mystery series! I had the pleasure of offering Priscilla some copyediting assistance. Here's the book description: May 1283. The roads near Tyndal Priory are filled with happy pilgrims returning from St. Walstan’s feast day. But all is not joyful. Prioress Eleanor’s loved ones are suffering. Signy, the local innkeeper, is quarelling with her suddenly rebellious foster son. Gytha, Crowner Ralf’s wife, suffers failing health while her husband hunts smugglers on the remote North Sea coast. Brother Thomas remains moody and aloof. She longs to help them all, but disaster strikes. An itinerant carpenter is badly beaten. A pilgrim is murdered near the priory walls. Are the two crimes connected? Prioress Eleanor has no right to intervene in crimes outside the Church’s authority, but any delay will allow the killer to escape into the crowds of pilgrims. Until t
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