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Here's the book I designed in 90 minutes for my @adobe Masterclass last week - FAN ART! It's an imaginary novelisation of the MAGNIFICENT @netflix series DARK. You can watch my Masterclass here.

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Nine years after the publication of legendary LGBTQ YA novel 'Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe' and all its ensuing awards, I'm chuffed that my artwork for its long-awaited sequel got its worldwide cover reveal today. Fans of Benjamin Alire Saenz have waited a LONG time for this! And yes, I had to read it to the cover...😃...my lips are sealed.

Art direction by Chloe Foglia at Simon and Schuster, photography by Mark Brabant.

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It was a privilege to create the cover for this book by Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, published today by Simon & Schuster UK. Written by the mother-and-daughter team, it’s about women throughout history who fought for the rights of women. And yes, Hillary herself approved the artwork!

Civil rights activists, LGBTQ trailblazers, writers, sportswomen, historians and the wonderful Malala are among the women featured in the book, women who had faith their actions could make a difference: fiercely optimistic, gutsy WOMEN! 👩‍🦰👩‍🦳👱‍♀️🧕👷‍♀️👩‍⚕️

I did lots and lots of lettering for this cover and at first presented ideas with bold, bright colours and a slight graffiti-esque vibe. This settled into a white cover - a bold move! - keeping the raw, hand-drawn lettering virtually unchanged from the original ink on paper.

Art direction was by Pip Watkins.

(Available everywhere, but my preferred place to buy books is Blackwell’s of Oxford.)

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There’s a LOT behind the scenes of a book title!  Sometimes alongside whole covers I do ‘just’ the lettering instead, and there are usually a great many versions of the title explored before reaching a final. Here’s the latest - ‘The Haunting of Aveline Jones’ had around 20 versions created for it. The beautiful artwork is by Keith Robinson - what a pleasure to compliment his painting with some hand-inked lettering.

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COVER REVEAL! Kevin Hearne just whipped the curtain off his new novel, hand-inked cover by me. Fancy dark Scottish streets/magic symbols/a cursed master with trail of a dead apprentices? This is FOR YOU! All-ink on paper with a little PS magic.

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Published 8th September by @usbornepublishing is this PHANTASTIC anthology of horror stories for kids, written by some of the masters of the field - in plenty of time to get a copy in for your Hallowe’en reading! Matt Haig, Susan Cooper, Philip Reeve, Mal Peet and more lend their creepy voices to this collection which I gobbled down in a few days. Deliciously horrific, tense, unsettling and without a single ‘happy ending’ in sight, it may be intended for children but it’s Right Up My Street.

The art was created in pencil on paper then inked in, with names added to the illustration in @procreateapp to allow for the myriad fine-tunes and changes as we fitted all the authors in. The lettering too is all-ink-action.

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Just received this dramatic version of my cover for ‘The Accidental Highwayman’ by Ben Tripp. Had the red one but had not yet seen the black and gold. It’s juicy. The embossing is 👌🏽 - I also managed to draw a dog that actually looks like a dog. And a horse - wonders never cease.

Illustrated in pen and ink for Tor Books in the USA (enclosed was a hand-drawn note from the author too! 🖤

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In a 'career first' I've created both the US and the UK the covers of an upcoming novel - both editions of Kevin Hearne's 'Ink & Sigil' have been illustrated with completely separate, but related, artwork. Created with pen and ink, the books are both published in the August, so look out for a blog and juicy details of the process next month.