The
talented cover designers are another example of the high standards of eXtasy
Books. It is so nice to be working with a publisher who values quality work.
Martine Jardin designed the cover
for my first eXtasy Books release, Mandi.
Carmen Waters designed the covers for Clytie,
Minotaur, and Huntress. All of the covers do a great job of catching the
eye and expressing the atmosphere of the book.
The cover designers are working
from brief descriptions of the setting and key characters that the publisher
requires the author to submit along with the final manuscript. The cover information I submitted for Huntress (scheduled for June 15
publication) was:
Setting :
English forest preserve; old stone cottage with thatched roof and big fireplace.
Description of Hero: Andrew.
Short hair, pale, boyishly handsome, rugged. An English gentleman and scholar,
at his restless leisure in his mid-thirties after making a fortune in
international finance.
Description of Heroine: Camilla. ASIAN-AMERICAN, long BLACK hair, lean body,
muscular shoulders. Over-achieving and self-loathing daughter of a tiger mom.
Likes to paint herself with tiger stripes. Hunts deer and men with bow and
arrow.
I read once that if there is a
physical characteristic you don't want the cover designer to overlook, you'd
better emphasize it. That's why I put
Camilla's ethnicity and hair color in all caps. There she is on the cover, an Asaian-American amazon, complete with bow and tiger stripes. Thanks, Carmen!
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