The 13 Curses - new cover

Here is a sneak preview of the cover for 'The 13 Curses', the sequel to Michelle Harrison's 'The 13 Treasures' which won the Waterstone's Children's book prize earlier this year.

Having illustrated the cover for the first book, I really wanted to push this one and try to make it better - it's certainly more intricate with lots of detail, but I'll leave it up to you to see if you think it measures up.

I think the background may end being a foil, to make it more eye catching on the shelves/racks..... and I'm sure the designer, Nick Stearn at Simon & Schuster, will do a fab job of that (thanks for the low-res Nick).

Here's hoping that upon it's release it is as successful as the first book, I'm sure it will be equally fantastic to read -so keep your eyes peeled at your local bookstore.

Tom Scatterhorn 2 : The Hidden World paperback

Hey Everyone

Here is the paperback artwork for 'The Hidden World', simpler than the hardback version and in the same vein as the paperback for 'The Museum's Secret'.

'The Hidden World' is out in it's hardback via from Oxford University Press in September.

Go get your pre-order on at Amazon/Waterstone's etc!

A Madness of Angels

Here is a another cover I created recently.......the sequel is due out in the coming months, so I'll post that cover soon too. This one was made working closely with the designers ideas - A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin is out in all good book stores now!

New cover - Ghost of a chance

Here is a new cover for 'Ghost of a chance', by Rhiannon Lassiter, to be released by Oxford University Press at some point in the near future.

I also did the 'Bad Blood' cover, and the rights of passage trilogy for the same author, so go check those out too. Huge thanks as always to the brilliant and lovely Molly Dallas at O.U.P.

Apologies for the lack of 'blogging' of late, it's been such a busy time.......but I'll be posting a few bits this week in between more work and a bit of Wimbledon. Go Andy Murray!

New Radio Times - Tough Love

Well, amongst the current book cover madness I managed to fit this illo in for Ped at Radio Times (thank you sir). 'Tough Love' is a radio play that focuses on a mother and her decision to kick her heroin drug addict son out.....so, if you have a look at my illustration, 'you get the idea of that' as Harry Hill would say.

Commissioned last Friday at 5:30 pm, artwork finished 7:00 pm the next day.....delivered Tuesday morning as was busy on the Monday and had the Sunday off, yay!

Tom Scatterhorn 2 : The Hidden World

Just finished the cover for the sequel to 'The Museum's Secret'.

'The Remarkable Adventures Of Tom Scatterhorn : The Hidden World' by Henry Chancellor should be in bookstores around September 2009, published by Oxford University Press. A paperback of the first book (for which I did a slightly different cover to the hardback, see below) should be out in May as a build up to the sequel I guess.

So much digital painting and collage in this one..........the 'beetle cogs' were a real challenge, but together with the design by Molly Dallas, and the calligraphy by Carol Kemp, I'm pretty chuffed at how this turned out.

New Cover : Tennyson

Just got this proof in from the U.S.A.......

'Tennyson' by Lesley MM BLume, is coming your way via Random House.

I think the book is out with this cover soon, though it is currently published with a different image on the cover.