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The Dark Chocolatorium of the Thirteen Santas

Cover by Mark Melnick for Annie McAndrews's National Novel Writing Month contribution The Dark Chocolatorium of the Thirteen Santas:

As a ward of the monks of Antrum, Coll knew he was expected to learn charity, humility, and the making of the fine chocolates that are the monks' livelihood. He never expected to discover a highly illegal automaton on the doorstep.

The monks, usually quick to investigate things Unknown, show no curiosity at all about the mechanical monstrosity. But Coll is certain they know more than they’re saying. His search for answers the monks won’t give leads him to the Duchy’s most notorious sky pirates, the Shrike and the Dove, who aren’t in the business of “something for nothing”. But their price seems so reasonable – carry just one little message – that he goes along. Too late, he learns that the message concerned the ransom of the Duke’s son; that the Duke responds to such things in force; and that there were in fact more smuggled automatons - a whole army’s worth, now marching against the Duke’s Own.

With pirates fighting soldiers fighting automatons fighting monks through the streets, Coll’s easiest course would be to creep away before the Duke's Own arrest him or the automatons march right over him. But he still doesn’t know who’s loyal and who’s lying. And he’s not about to leave while a riddle like that remains Unknown.

You can see more NaNOWriMo covers here.

*Buy Breathless Homicidal Slime Mutants: The Art of the Paperback at Amazon.

The Last Sin Eater

Cover by Evan Gaffney for Pam Griffin's The Last Sin Eater:

When three of Richard Munslow's children are struck down by whooping cough the farmer is distraught. Fearing he is responsible and that God is punishing him for something, he despairs of ever being able to atone for the sin he must have committed to bring down such a terrible punishment.

While he is at his lowest his sister-in-law begs him to fetch a priest for her son, who is also dying of the cough. Although the priest doesn't reach the house in time to grant an absolution, Richard finds some solace in taking on the role of sin eater - taking on the sins of the deceased - and forfeiting his own soul in the process.

Based on what little is known of the true story of Richard Munslow, England's last sin eater, who died in 1903 and is buried in Shropshire.

Where can you buy this book? You can't, yet. Pam's writing it for National Novel Writing Month.

*Buy Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986-2006 at Amazon.

David Karp's One

Cover for David Karp's "One":

In a dateless future, a seemingly benevolent totalitarian State has eliminated poverty and crime and brought the happiness of conformity to its citizens. Professor Burden believes he too is a loyal citizen, but the Department of Internal Examination discovers that he harbors unconscious doubts about its methods and secretly values his individuality. Horrified at the subtlety of this heresy against the State, an examiner named Lark takes Burden on as a special project. He is convinced he can break Burden of his feelings of individuality and return him to being a normal, productive member of society—by persuasion if possible, but by complete obliteration of his identity, if necessary. First published in 1953, One embodies the paranoia of totalitarianism, where personal freedoms are a threat to the State and individualism has to be brutally controlled. A taught, psychological thriller, this book ranks with the works of Orwell and Huxley as among the great dystopian novels of the era.

Can you identify the source for the cover image? $10 at Amazon.

Antigone poster by Sam Weber (and more)

Some of Sam Weber's posters for Soulpepper theater, on sale for $25 each here.

He also created the front and back covers for the latest edition of American Illustration (#29):

The jacket unfolds into a poster:

*Buy American Illustration collections at Amazon.

Book cover roundup

Links are to Amazon:

Half Empty. Via.

Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later

Version 43. (Available as a desktop wallpaper.)

Red Claw

The Collector

Eye-torturing cover for Charlie Huston's Sleepless

The book cover for the Commonwealth version of Charlie Huston's Sleepless. When I checked, there were a few on sale at eBay.

It's quite similar to Trevor Jackson's cover for Soulwax's Any Minute Now:

Available at Amazon. Via.

Book covers by Lauren Panepinto for Simon Morden's Equations of Life, The Theories of Flight, and Degrees of Freedom, available for preorder at Amazon.

The books are by Orbit, and visiting the Orbit site led me to these covers for Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series, available at Amazon:

Orbit recently invited fans to dress up at NYCC and promises to create mock covers featuring the fans:

Via.

Anthology 451

Anthology 451 is a comics anthology featuring stories by Craig Berry, Rodolphe Guenoden, John Hoffman, Robin Joseph, Viktor Kalvachev, Kris Pearn, and Mike Thomas. You can see a few sample pages here.

Classic novels with new 3D covers

New 3D covers for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Planet of the Apes, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Lost World, and the Call of Cthulhu. The Jules Verne book covers are by Jim Tierney. You can see some 3D covers for books on pornography here.

*Buy 3-D books at Amazon.

How Bill O’ Reilly Saved Christmas

One of several discarded book cover concepts for the book that eventually became Blowing Smoke: Why the Right Keeps Serving Up Whack-Job Fantasies about the Plot to Euthanize Grandma, Outlaw Christmas, and Turn Junior into a Raging Homosexual, which is available at Amazon.