Alyssa Winans Illustration

Hugo-award winning illustrator and book cover artist working out of the SF bay area. Obsessed with ice cream and desserts in general. Portfolio: www.alyssawinans.com

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This comes out later this year! I love working with red. If you've been yearning for a library of curses, this one's for you.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

AD/Design: Danielle Mazella di Bosco

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I think the colors are coming out a little punchier on here for some reason, but I'm not unhappy with it. This is from when I was trying to learn Procreate, seemingly long after everyone else!

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I didn't intend this one to be horror-ish, but I've been frequently informed that it is.

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I semi-jokingly did this drawing challenge last year, and ended up really enjoying it. #loggust

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Mermay, last year! Mostly an excuse to draw a lungfish. It's a tragedy that lungfishtember doesn't roll off the tongue.

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A bit of a time jump, because the second book in Stacey McEwan's Artisan Trilogy actually came out in the US today! I haven't gotten to do too many item covers, so it's been refreshing working on these.

I also got to do a map for the endpapers!

Publisher: Saga Press

AD/Design: Ella Laytham

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I got to do the cover and interiors for each story in the Book of Witches anthology, edited by Jonathan Strahan. I absolutely love doing interior spots, so it was an amazing project to work on. The range of stories is impressive as well, and challenges what we might first think of as "witch"!

Publisher: HarperCollins

AD/Design: Mumtaz Mustafa, Jennifer Chung

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Another old personal piece.

And I finally figured out how to do alt text on here. I'm still catching up!

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Covers for the Forever Desert series by Moses Ose Utomi

Publisher: Tor.com Publishing

AD/Design: Christine Foltzer, Jess Kiley

This is a truly wild series. Very unique in how the whole series fits together. Honored I got to cover it!

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More Aliette books! I got to do covers for a pair of standalone novels in her Xuya universe.

Publisher: Gollancz

AD/Design: Rachael Lancaster

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The Oculist (2022)

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Cover for Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard (2021)

Publisher: Tor.com Publishing

AD/Design: Christine Foltzer

I'm a fan of Aliette's writing, so it was an honor to get to work on a few books with her!

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Trade and limited edition covers for The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One

Publisher: Subterranean Press

AD/Design: Bill Schafer and Gail Cross

I was so sad to hear Subterranean Press will be closing at the end of next year! I loved working on these covers, and it has always been so smooth working with them.

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Publisher: Tor.com Publishing

AD/Design: Christine Foltzer

Getting to cover Nghi Vo's Singing Hills Cycle has really been the project of a lifetime. It has been an amazing series to be a part of, and I'm always genuinely excited to see what Nghi has come up with each new manuscript.

I worked on the first cover back in 2019, and I thought it was a standalone, so I really had no idea what was coming. And here we are 7 years later!

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Old piece from 2020! Thinking about style & voice.

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Isle of the Mind (2020)

An old personal piece loosely based on the idea of introspection.

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Cover for Desdemona and the Deep by C.S.E. Cooney

Publisher: Tor.com Publishing

AD/Design: Christine Foltzer

I got my first book cover commission at the end of 2018. This meant a lot to me, since I grew up on SFF books, but I never really thought I had the "right kind" of artwork for the covers. After all, I'd grown up on all those stunning classic oil painting covers. I'd more or less mentally given up on the idea, so I was grateful to be proven wrong.