Feb 16, 2021
This episode we’re discussing what makes a good book cover: The Design and Art of Books! We talk about physically icky feeling books, hidden messages on (and under) book covers, the history of the book, women's pants, and more! Plus: We discuss whether we prefer hardcovers, trade paperbacks, or mass market paperbacks!
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In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards
Books We Mentioned
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- Tampa by Alissa Nutting
- Made for Love by Alissa Nutting
- Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott
- Cheap Toys #23 by Giz Medium (zine with sandpaper cover)
- Get Fuzzy by Darby Donley
- Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
- X-Statix Omnibus by Peter Milligan, Mike Allred, and others
- Wise Child by Monica Furlong
- Juniper by Monica Furlong
- The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
- Support Your Local Wizard by Diane Duane
- Weetzie Bat series (This is the Witch Baby edition RJ likes)
- Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
- The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
- Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned by Judd Winick
- Monstress series by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda
- Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- Hidden messages on the book cover
- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine
- The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White
- Old Man's War by John Scalzi
- Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
- The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
- The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
- Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
- Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
- The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden
Links, Articles, and Things
- Dust jacket (Wikipedia)
- C.S. Richardson on Book Design, Clip 1
- Nicole Caputo talks about her design process x Belletrist
- Rotating book lectern
- Marvel Comics reveals 20 amazing cosplay-based covers
- Why Do So Many Book Covers Look the Same? Blame Getty Images
- How readers can react to ‘Handbook’ ruckus (stolen cover art)
- Meet the Online Vigilante Battling Heavy Metal Art Theft
- 2021 Book Cover Design Trends to Follow
- 8 Top Book Cover Design Trends for 2021
- Book Covers of Note, January 2021
- Variant cover (Wikipedia)
- Valiant to Use Different Foils for Variant Cover for QUANTUM AND WOODY! #1
- Radio-frequency identification (RFID) (Wikipedia)
- ISO 6357 — Spine titles on books and other publications
- Fore-Edge Paintings: Beauty on the Edge
- Painting hidden in gilt edges of rare book
- Fore-edge painting (Wikipedia)
- Fore-Edge Paintings
- The French Flap
- Moleskine (Wikipedia)
- Blog Talk: Are Romance Book Covers Starting A New Design Trend?
- At a Romance Cover Shoot, There’s No Such Thing As Too Much Wind Machine
- How I Became A Romance Cover Model
- Why so many book cover male models are headless….
- With Romance Novels Booming, Beefcake Sells, but It Doesn’t Pay
- New York Public Library collection of Russian bookjackets
- Alcuin Society – Promoting interest in the book arts
- Ain’t That a Shame (2009 blog post by Justine Larbalestier about the whitewashed cover of the US edition of her book “Liar”)
- Cover story: The curious case of a shared database
- Link to our Pinterest page with all the covers
22 Winter Holiday Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) Authors
Fiction
- Twelve Dates of Christmas by Rilzy Adams
- A Christmas Parranda by Andrea Beatriz Arango
- A Wedding One Christmas by Therese Beharrie
- Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
- Seven Swans a' Shooting by Kyra Davis
- Sweet on You: A Filipino Christmas Romance by Carla de Guzman
- Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe by Melissa de la Cruz
- Noelle The First by Nicole Falls
- Kwanzaa Angel by by Shirley Hailstock
- The Magic of Mistletoe by Carolyn Hector
- Mangoes & Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera
- Wrapped Up in You by Talia Hibbert
- I'll Be Home for Christmas by Beverly Jenkins
- Her Pretend Christmas Date by Jackie Lau
- True Love for Christmas by D. Rose
- A Mistletoe Murder: A Christmas Novella by Necole Ryse
Non-Fiction
- An Aboriginal Carol by David Bouchard, Moses Beaver, & Susan Aglukark
- A Treasury of African-American Christmas Stories by Bettye Collier-Thomas
- A Christmas Story: Behind the Scenes of a Holiday Classic by Caseen Gaines
- Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture by Maulana Karenga
- Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition by Keith A. Mayes
- Christmas Gif': An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs and Stories Written By and About African-Americans by Charlemae Rollins, Joseph Rollins, and Ashley Bryan
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Join us again on Tuesday, March 2nd we’ll be talking about the genre of Biology Non-Fiction!
Then on Tuesday, March 16th we’ll be discussing Bad Book Reading Habits!