A special person I’ve gotten to know over the years through Book ‘Em is
Bonnie Watson. She’s the author of the
Blue Moon Trilogy (Books 1 and 2 are now available) and she’s an amazing artist. She designed the cover art for her books and also works as a freelance graphics designer. And she’s a musician! You can see her work at her website,
WISDOM NOVELS
Bonnie invited me to do a guest post on her blog about the creation of my characters in
The Circle of Friends and do I have a favorite? Her blog SCRIBBLES is located
HERE
Bonnie’s covers are beautiful. I’ve always preferred rich artwork on fiction books. Before you go visit Bonnie, take a look at these gorgeous covers:
I have the full, framed artwork of this one on my wall - just love this cover.
This is the cover of the book in my boxed set. Such a shame they changed them.
Book for the role playing game Call of Cthulhu.
Yes, I do like my own covers! This one is the most gorgeous...
I loved the covers of Richard Scarry's books when I was little. Simple but detailed and with so much going on.
I love Michael Whelan's covers...
And McCaffrey's books! This one featured a simple but lovely painting.
This one shows a real sense of characters in the little Fuzzies.
If you’d like to know from where my characters originated and meet the talented and bubbly Bonnie, please visit
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I hate covers with men or women's heads chopped. The illustrated covers you've here are lovely. I like the Caslight one best, mystery and dark.
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Enid, I do too! Seems it's the current style of YA covers but I just hate it. I've dubbed it 'body parts.'
ReplyDeleteAWWWEEESOME covers! We have lots of technical stuff thanks to computer technology, but I still LOVE handmade illustrations. Congrats!
ReplyDeleteWhelan is an amazing artist!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE all of McCaffrey's covers. She had some cool ones for Crystal Singer too.
ReplyDeleteWhelan is amazing.
Sia McKye OVER COFFEE
Nice artwork! And I agree with you about Richard Scarry.
ReplyDeleteNice artwork! And I agree with you about Richard Scarry.
ReplyDeleteWhoa! I had no idea Anne McCaffrey wrote books without Dragons.
ReplyDeleteSia, Whelan did almost all of her original covers. The newer ones aren't as good.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Karen. I know I'm biased.
Matthew, she did a lot of science fiction outside of her Pern series and quite a few women's contemporaries. And yes, I've read them all.
The covers are eye-catching indeed.
ReplyDeleteAwesome covers but I don't like gruesome ones.
ReplyDeleteYvonne,.
Some of those covers are really cool. I love it when the characters match the ones pictured on the cover.
ReplyDeleteThese are incredible covers, Diane. I love every one of them! My daughter's favorite is Fuzzy Sapiens, because...of all the GREEN. And the orange across the top - perfect contrast. Very impressive.
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Clarissa, because sometimes that doesn't happen.
ReplyDeleteAnn, I liked all the green, too.
I love all these covers - so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteGreat covers. I really envy artist people.
ReplyDeleteThanks for being a my featured guest and mentioning my book cover. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteGreat covers! Ahhh, brings back memories of all the Anne McCaffrey books.
ReplyDeleteBonnie, thank you!
ReplyDeleteDebbie, I know. Really sad she's gone.
Thanks for introducing us to Bonnie! She's amazing with her artwork. Covers are so important and people do indeed judge a book by its cover.
ReplyDeleteFabulous! I'm going to go check out your guest post now.
ReplyDeleteAnd that cover for the Horse and his Boy is great. I loved that book even though most people don't pay much attention to that one in the series.
Jai