Chris Neal has a wonderful new post on his website about the way he approached MAY B.’s cover, an interesting step-by-step with lots of sketches included.
Publishing is a team effort, and much of the process can be likened to a relay race. You are responsible for (and familiar with) only your leg of the journey. That means a lot of the process is left shrouded in mystery, especially for first timers like me.
Thank you, Chris, for this glimpse into your end of things!
So interesting to read how the cover came to be. Thanks for sharing this.
How interesting to get a glimpse of the process. Very cool!
Thanks for sharing this link. How interesting to see this side of things.
This was so amazing! Thanks for sharing this process with us!
Amy
I still can’t get over it. I love that cover. Chris did a phenomenal job.
You and Marissa Burt have the coolest debut covers, and you’re both Mayhemers.
Michael, I love Marissa’s cover, too. It’s so interesting to see what work others are doing to make a book come together.
wow, that was cool to see how it progressed. Especially loved the glimpse into what the publisher wished to portrait as well as the artist. So interesting. Thanks for sharing this.
That was really neat! I always wonder how the cover design is decided.