Yes, you're seeing the Nancy Drew cover font again

Posted on 01/18/2019 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Those of you raised on the 1940s and 1950s versions of Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys might have noticed that the cover f...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Classic literature, Cover design

We're jealous of this Chicago-area high school

Posted on 01/10/2019 at 10:30 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It’s rare for most adults to say “I wish I could go back to high school.” Bookworms at Mundelein High...

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Tagged As: Cover design, Literary tourism

Design debate: Which cover is more compelling?

Posted on 12/07/2018 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Literary Hub’s “who wore it better?” feature is way better than anything you see in celebrity magazine...

Tagged As: Cover design, Just for fun, Literary Hub

Cover your eyes when looking at these books

Posted on 10/23/2018 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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It’s hard enough to persuade readers to undertake classic novels. So it makes you wonder why Wordsworth Classics c...

Tagged As: Classic literature, Cover design, Electric Literature, Just for fun

Haruki Murakami’s cover designer shares his inspirations

Posted on 09/24/2018 at 01:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Chip Kidd has left his mark on more than one well-known book, but Vulture in particular appreciates his work on Haruki M...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Cover design

How social media has influenced book cover design

Posted on 08/29/2018 at 05:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Hey, bookstagrammers, pat yourselves on the back — you might’ve saved the art of cover design! Ebooks,...

Tagged As: Cover design, Technology, The Guardian

What it's like designing a "Harry Potter" cover

Posted on 06/29/2018 at 08:14 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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When illustrator Brian Selznick was asked to design the twentieth-anniversary covers for the Harry Potter series, his fi...

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Tagged As: Amazon, Children's literature, Cover design, Young adult literature

Why are middle-aged women invisible on book covers?

Posted on 05/25/2018 at 11:11 AM by Jeffrey Bruner

Novels by Elizabeth Strout, Elena Ferrante and Allison Pearson all feature middle-aged women but don't depict them on the cover.

That’s a really good question raised today by Alison Flood over at The Guardian: “It seems the book world do...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Cover design, Diversity, The Guardian, Women in literature

Michelle Obama reveals memoir cover

Posted on 05/25/2018 at 09:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

"Becoming," the upcoming memoir of former first lady Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama shared the cover for her upcoming memoir, Becoming, on social media Thursday. The cover reveal comes afte...

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Tagged As: Cover design, Memoir, New release

Author Q&A: Mary E. Twomey

Posted on 04/16/2018 at 12:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

“Don’t judge a book by its cover”? Au contraire, says author Mary E. Twomey. Twomey recently gave an e...

Categories: Author Interview

Tagged As: Author interview, Cover design, Fantasy