If they don’t work correctly, this is the point I go back to the drawing board. Initially it’s getting all the elements in place. I’d say I work on each cover about half a week to a week. Many publishers don’t even give their authors the right of veto, citing “house style” over the preferences of the author.Ģ- How long does a cover normally take? Which cover of yours took the longest (and why?) Nowadays it would be quite rare to be allowed to design your own cover. In 2006 m/m was pretty new and I imagine a lot of the standard practices in place now were not established yet. One of the features for the GRNW blog will be to go out and talk with those amazing artists and find out more about the magic behind their process.įor our first Cover Art Expose, we talk with the wonderful Jordan Castillo Price, who not only self-publishes her work through JCP Books, but does all her own cover art!Īt the end of this interview, we’ll also be doing a giveaway for JCP’s sci-fi novel Mnevermind 1: The Persistence of Memory.ġ- What was the first book cover that you worked on?Īt the time, I didn’t realize how rare this was, but I made a request and Torquere Press allowed me to design the cover to Ps圜op: Partners, the print compilation of the first two Ps圜op novels. The truth is that the genre boasts a lot of fantastic cover artists, who have a tough role of capturing the reader’s eye and capturing the story’s essence, all in one small space. (We even discussed the many naked chests at GRNW 2013, which led to one of our favorite lines spoken at the conference–Lou Harper’s “In defense of the headless torso…”)

Cover art is sometimes (very often) maligned in our genre.

Magic Mansion by Jordan Castillo Price