Posts Tagged ‘Covers’
- Jenni Hill - January 11th, 2012
We’re really pleased to reveal the cover for the second volume of Helen Lowe ’s epic fantasy series, THE GATHERING OF THE LOST, (UK|ANZ) which will be out this April! Click on the images below for the super high-resolution versions…
The covers have been designed by Duncan Spilling, one of our in-house designers here at Orbit, and we feel that they really get across the spirit of this fantastic series. The first book in the Wall of Night series, HEIR OF NIGHT (UK|ANZ), is coming out in paperback next week, on January 19th! HEIR OF NIGHT has also got a beautiful cover, we’re sure you’ll agree…
by Jenni Hill • 5 Comments • Posted in: Art, Covers, Fantasy, Orbit Australia, Orbit UK
- Lauren Panepinto - November 21st, 2011
Wallpaper time again, guys and gals, and more epic fantasy for all your fancy devices. This fine art is for THEFT OF SWORDS by Michael J. Sullivan, which is the first book in the Riyria Revelations. The art is by Larry Rostant, and depicts the duo at the heart of the books. I don’t want to give too much away, but these books were so good, we just had to give them the special Orbit 3-in-3-months treatment so you could get the whole epic in your hands right away.
There’s a bit of a difference in the US/UK versions of the cover – we like to do that sometimes just to keep you all on your toes – but the illustration is the same, so both sides of the pond can enjoy. Check out both covers and read an excerpt here.
Here’s all the wallpaper download links…if anyone needs a specific dimension made, let us know!
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- Anne Clarke - November 17th, 2011
M.L.N. Hanover’s fantastic Black Sun’s Daughter series will be published in the UK for the first time in the New Year, with the first four books in the series coming out monthly from January. If you like Patricia Briggs or Kelley Armstrong or Sherrilyn Kenyon you’re in for a treat with these – I read all four of them in one weekend when I first discovered them.
A great series deserves great covers, so I hope you’ll agree we’ve done them justice. Little, Brown inhouse designer Hannah Clark’s creative interpretation of my loose brief (which boiled down to “it needs to look like urban fantasy but I want it to be new and different”) has led to this wonderfully fresh and original cover style – thanks Hannah!
by Anne Clarke • 1 Comment • Posted in: Covers, Orbit UK, Uncategorized
- Lauren Panepinto - October 31st, 2011
Mira Grant, author of Feed, Deadline, and the upcoming Blackout has once again left a lovely present in my inbox—a poetic present! Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s Annabel Lee, I give to you: Annabel Lee, After the Rising! And if you missed ‘Twas the Night Before the Uprising last december, check it out.
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by Lauren Panepinto • 4 Comments • Posted in: Art, Covers, Orbit UK, Orbit US
- Lauren Panepinto - October 25th, 2011
I loved working on these epic covers of badassery (technical term) with Gene Mollica & Michael Frost…so now that The Heroes is out, it’s totally time for wallpapers! I think these covers are set to volume 11, just like Joe Abercrombie’s writing, so if you like gritty, brutal, real-life epic fantasy with fabulous characters and a helping of political backstabbing, then you really should pick up The Heroes, out now in Trade Paperback.
Here’s all the wallpaper download links…if anyone needs a specific dimension made, let us know!
1024 x 768 | 1280 x 800 | 1440 x 900 | 1680 x 1050 |1920 x 1200 | iPhone | iPad
by Lauren Panepinto • 6 Comments • Posted in: Art, Covers, Orbit US, Uncategorized, Wallpaper
- Lauren Panepinto - October 5th, 2011
This gorgeous art by Nekro was just screaming to be made into wallpapers, so here you are, for all your screens and devices: wallpapers for Blood Rights by Kristen Painter, out now!
Here’s all the wallpaper download links…if anyone needs a specific dimension made, let us know!
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by Lauren Panepinto • Post a Comment • Posted in: Art, Covers, Orbit UK, Orbit US, Wallpaper
- Lauren Panepinto - September 30th, 2011
Wow, now that’s a lot of covers! A whole season in fact. With our US Spring-Summer 2012 catalog sneaking out into the world we wanted to go ahead and post all the early covers in one place so you don’t have to go sneaking about the interwebs looking for them. As this is catalog time, and pretty much a whole year before these books will go to print, a lot is still in development, and a lot will still change, so I’ve marked the not-final covers so there is no confusion. After the jump you can link and download each cover individually.
So go ahead! Get excited! Make your christmas lists, birthday lists, and beach-reading lists, and in the coming months we will be launching each of these covers with all the pomp and circumstance (and fun background videos, insider info, and semi-lucid ravings of yours truly) you have come to expect right here on orbitbooks.net
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by Lauren Panepinto • 9 Comments • Posted in: Art, Covers, Orbit US
- Lauren Panepinto - September 26th, 2011
Today I am very excited to launch a hotly-anticipated book (and cover!) for The Seven Princes by John R. Fultz. I am absolutely in love with the art by Richard Anderson. I love his loose, impressionistic fantasy style. This project is a perfect example of everything we try to do at Orbit – make an amazing cover that absolutely oozes fantasy, yet do it with an infusion of a fresh new style or new angle. The book is a very classic fantasy tale but told in a really fast-paced cinematic, almost modern pulp kind of feel, and I am just thrilled with this marriage of artist and story. Definitely go check out the artist’s site and blog, he’s been working on concept art for Guild Wars for a long time, and if you are familiar with the game you’ll definitely recognize things, but all of his portfolio pieces are super drool-worthy. I am very excited to get working on the next cover in the series soon!
After the jump, get a teaser and see the art big and sexy…(yes sexy is a technical art-direction term!) Read the rest of this entry »
by Lauren Panepinto • 3 Comments • Posted in: Art, Covers, Orbit UK, Orbit US, Uncategorized
- Lauren Panepinto - September 12th, 2011
Like I was saying when I posted the Chasing the Moon wallpapers, I love that Will Staehle’s covers really work together to give the author a cohesive look and feel, but they work as the stand-alone stories they are. I thought Monster was my favorite…until this one came in. A squid riding a body with a suit and tie! I mean come on, that’s hilarious. And the squid has a crown. And the back cover art is pretty fab too, just wait and see. So here’s another great one, to look and and to read, for a tale of intergalactic politics and a galaxy-wide scourge…who just might be sick of keeping up his reputation.
And really, the best reading line i’ve put on a title in a long time. “He came, he squirmed, he conquered!” ha!
Here’s a teaser, and all A. Lee Martinez’s covers together after the jump…
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by Lauren Panepinto • 1 Comment • Posted in: Art, Covers, Orbit US
- Lauren Panepinto - September 9th, 2011
Here’s a bittersweet cover launch for you – sweet, because it’s another great cover by Calvin Chu, showing one of my favorite Lilith Saintcrow heroines, Jill Kismet. Bitter because it’s the finale of the Jill Kismet series! I love the graphic feel of these covers, it’s been a really fresh take on the urban fantasy style, and both Jill Kismet & Dante Valentine were well-characterized by the illustrations. In this book we really wanted to refer back to the first cover (Night Shift) and bring the series full-circle with a close-up shot. After the jump, see the whole series together, and a teaser…
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by Lauren Panepinto • 1 Comment • Posted in: Art, Covers, Orbit US
