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Cover Design: Mysterious Fields

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For the last of our current series of posts about cover design, it’s time to share the covers for the Mysterious Fields trilogy. I love the elements Augusta pulled together to evoke just the right feeling for these covers.

A silhouetted man and woman in Victorian dress stand with their backs to the viewer. She is holding a glass of wine as they look toward each other. The background is a purple damask, crossed by pipes and gears and a streak of lightning, with a book inset in the top left corner. An amethyst sits beside the tablet with the cover.

Overall design : Mysterious Fields

Because these three books form a tight continuous trilogy (unlike any of my other books!) we really wanted the covers to fit well together. All three have the same basic elements:

  • Damask background (for the late Victorian feel)
  • Appropriate clothing! Augusta worked off a number of reference images for this.
  • Electricity (a key theme in the books)
  • An inset item
  • Silhouetted figures who – over the course of the trilogy – move from distance to togetherness.

And then we have the pipes, to lean a bit more into the gaslamp feel of these books. People are exploring the intersection of science and magic, not always with the best results.

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