Aspiring cover artist wanted!
by Marie Marshall
Are you an aspiring artist? Would you like to take a punt at designing a cover illustration for my latest YA/teen vampire novel, KWIREBOY vs VAMPIRE, sequel to From My Cold, Undead Hand? I have little to offer you at this point except recognition, but in that respect I would be helping you and you would be helping me.
Your illustration does not have to be fancy. In fact if you could take a cue from Millie Ho’s excellent black-and-white cover for the first book in the series (look right) you’ll see the kind of aesthetic we’re looking for.
If you would like to offer your services, please get in touch with the publisher direct.
Thank you,
MM.
Marie Marshall 
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Thank you, everyone.
MM.
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Over at my general web site I have an opening for an aspiring cover artist. Could that be you? Or do you perhaps know of someone?
I tried to email the addresses provided and it didn’t work. My name is Grace Parmer. I would love to design logos, coverart, merchandise etc for you. I currently have a couple of music artist I am working for. I’m not public but I would love to take your ideas and show you what artwork I can do for you, I can guarantee your artwork will get done fast for low rates. Let me know what you’re thinking for your designs and I’ll start working on them today.
Hello Gracelyn. I had forgotten about this post – it is a wee while ago that I put it up here. Following the tragic death of my publisher’s husband and business partner, she relocated from South Africa to Ireland, where she is still settling in. Consequently the publishing business is temporarily in abeyance. But it will be re-started in due course, and I am hoping that the publication of ‘KWIREBOY vs VAMPIRE’ will then go ahead. The actual artwork I envisage for the cover is along the same lines that Millie Ho did for ‘From My Cold Undead Hand’ above – a black base with features and highlights picked out in white – but in this case the character would be a boy in his young teens, with features that were clearly part African-American, and he would be holding the hilt of a Japanese katana, rather than a gun. He would be looking defiantly out at the reader, just like the girl on the cover of ‘FMCUH’.
[I am not, at this stage, agreeing to engage you, but please feel free to make a pitch. Instead of contacting my publisher, try my agent. His email (and mine) is on my ‘Contact’ page on this web site.]