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(Penguin, 2011) The cover process for The Postmortal was actually fairly easy, because when I sent the manuscript out, I had already asked Jim Cooke to do a little mockup of the Dead Reaper (a drawing that appears in the novel at one point) because it seemed like a cool, iconic thing I could use as both a calling card for the book and a Twitter avatar. So I said to Penguin, “Hey, I have this nice, clean icon here […]
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(Riverhead, 2008) When I first saw it, I was dubious. I liked the mattress and the color scheme very much but it wasn’t love at first sight. The good stuff: I knew it was the right kind of feminine…so what I had assumed would be the hardest part was already taken care of. The last book of essays I had read by a woman (or the last full collection released in recent memory) was Megan Daum’s My Misspent Youth, and […]
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(Crown, 2006) Too Much, Too Late was probably like the second or third cover I ever worked on. I designed it roughly in the spring of 2005 for Crown. At the time, I had been sending out lots of promotional stuff and my stuff at the time was very influenced by the punk aesthetic. Especially Art Chantry, who is still a hero of mine. The book itself is the story of an early ’90s indie rock band who never […]
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(Harper Perennial, 2010) Often, I’ve been very involved in my covers, and more so when they’re paintings or photographs that I already know of, in another context, and am bringing into the book. For Superbad, I met with Mark Tansey and he allowed me to use a painting for the cover. For Superworse, I found an image online by Kim Weston, Edward Weston’s grandson, and got his permission. When it came time for What He’s Poised To Do, I knew […]
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