Cover Lover

Friday Face-Off: Grabby Hands

Posted on April 16, 2021 18 Comments

Welcome to The Friday Face-Off, a weekly meme created by Books by Proxy! Each Friday, we will pit cover against cover while also taking the opportunity to showcase gorgeous artwork and feature some of our favorite book covers. If you want to join the fun, simply choose a book each Friday that fits that week’s predetermined […]

Friday Face-Off: Widdershins Adventures

Posted on September 27, 2019 35 Comments

Welcome to The Friday Face-Off, a weekly meme created by Books by Proxy! Each Friday, we will pit cover against cover while also taking the opportunity to showcase gorgeous artwork and feature some of our favorite book covers. If you want to join the fun, simply choose a book each Friday that fits that week’s predetermined […]

#SPFBO: Cover Lover

Posted on May 27, 2016 9 Comments

The great 2016 Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off is underway! We here at the BiblioSanctum are currently as busy as bees reading through the first five chapters of each book and comparing notes, and every day that goes by we’re getting closer to narrowing down the field to the handful we’ll be selecting for fuller reads. In […]

Mogsy’s Favorite Covers of 2015

Posted on December 25, 2015 19 Comments

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Like a precious gift carefully wrapped in decorative paper, a book with a good cover fills you with excitement and anticipation and makes you want to open it right away! As you all know I am a big fan of lists, so I thought, What better way to spread the […]

Cover Lover: Traitor’s Blade by Sebastian de Castell + Blurb For Greatcoat’s Lament

Posted on September 3, 2014 10 Comments

Cover Lover was a meme originally created by our friend and fellow book blogger Jaedia at Once Upon A Time, and since then we’ve adopted it as a feature here to talk about the covers of books we love or that strike our fancy. Today, in celebration of the paperback release of Sebastien de Castell’s Traitor’s […]

Cover Lover: Apex Magazine Operation Fourth Story!

Posted on April 10, 2014 Leave a Comment

Cover Lover was originally created by our friend and fellow book blogger Jaedia at Once Upon A Time, and since then we’ve adopted it as a feature here to talk about the covers that strike our fancy. Today I’m going to be sharing some of my favorite covers from Apex Magazine. I’m really excited to be […]

Step-by-Step with Cover Illustrator Gene Mollica

Posted on January 27, 2014 Leave a Comment

There’s a good chance that, if you’re a Science Fiction, Fantasy, Steampunk and Urban Fantasy reader, you’ve read a book featuring one of Photo-Illustrator Gene Mollica‘s incredible covers. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Gene began his artistic career as a traditional painter, but soon moved into the challenging world of […]

COVER LOVER: Behind the Scenes with The Barrow

Posted on January 16, 2014 Leave a Comment

Cover Lover is a feature originally created by our friend and fellow book blogger, Jaedia at Once Upon A Time. Usually, we chat about covers that strike our fancy, of which The Barrow‘s cover most definitely is one, but Eisner award nominated Author and Artist Mark Smylie, Pyr®‘s award-winning Editorial and Art Director Lou Anders and the incredible […]

Posted on November 19, 2013 Leave a Comment

After successfully getting my profile up to a comfortable 87% with NetGalley, I said I would not get any more ARCs for the year, but further to my book haul of denial, I’m clearly not good with my personal promises and resolutions. These two books from Angry Robot popped right out at me because, well, […]

Cover Lover: #DiversityinSFF

Posted on September 4, 2013 Leave a Comment

Today’s cover lover is inspired by the hashtag #DiversityinSFF. In Conversations with Octavia Butler, my favourite author explains to her various interviewers that, when she began writing science fiction, the genre was dominated by 30 year old white male protagonists. Initially, she attempted to follow suit, but decided her work was crap. When she embraced […]