Each card would feature a dominant presence: offhand these would be one of the geteit chemosit for The Pastel City, a locust for A Storm of Wings, the Barley Brothers for In Viriconium and a Mari Lwyd horse skull for Viriconium Nights. The characters wouldn’t be too well defined, they’d be stylised, maybe even silhouettes. A peculiar pack of Tarot cards is a recurrent feature of the books so I’d create four emblematic cards that featured significant elements and characters from each. If I was designing covers for all four Viriconium books, however, and the brief was to orient them towards a fantasy readership, the first thing I’d try would be a series of four imaginary Tarot designs. In the end I’ve resisted the temptation to draft a range of original cover proposals-writing these posts has taken long enough-so almost everything here uses pre-existing art. Since these are mostly covers that I’d like to see they’re not necessarily ideal for the audience a publisher might be aiming at, cover design is usually a three-way process involving designer, author and publisher. This post makes a few suggestions for how they might be presented in the future. Yesterday’s post looked at some of the past cover designs for M. Detail from Assassination in the Night (c.
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