And so, I give you, a glorious pair of covers.
Gods & Monsters: Unclean Spirits is out 5/2.
The Blue Blazes drops 5/28.
Not that I want to play favorites but, c’mon, The Blue Blazes cover is by the inimitable Joey Hi-fi, who did the covers to Blackbirds and Mockingbird! Once again I won the cover lottery here. The Founding Fields also has a brief Q&A with me about the book and the cover.
The (also awesome) cover of Gods & Monsters is by Clint Langley!
Both are available for pre-order now.
Gods & Monsters is about how the gods of all the pantheons have been exiled to earth, and how one man seeks his vengeance for the ills they’ve laid upon him and his family. (Features: Aphrodite! The Throne of Heaven! Coyote’s Penis! Cernunnos! And so much more!)
The Blue Blazes is about the one man standing at the intersection between the criminal Underworld and the mythic, monster-filled Underworld and what happens when his own daughter rises up to oppose him. (Features: Goblins! Golems! Snakefaces! Worm-Gods! Goat-Men! Sandhogs! Roller Derby Girl Gangs! Charcuterie! All underneath the island of Manhattan!)
Hope you like the covers.
(click them to see full-size)
urdith says:
That’s some hard-core eye-bleeding detail on the Blue Blazes cover. You can almost count the bricks in the sewer tunnel!
March 7, 2013 — 2:24 PM
lesa7515 says:
Superb!
March 7, 2013 — 2:57 PM
TWilcox says:
Absolutely beautiful! My fave is Blue Blazes. I don’t know what it’s about, but that cover has convinced me I must buy it.
March 7, 2013 — 3:17 PM
Alex Kane says:
Joey Hi-fi is the man, no question.
March 7, 2013 — 3:22 PM
marlarosebrady says:
Wowzers! These look awesome….hey, chuck, by chance, do you need anyone to do a book review????? 🙂 <3 🙂
March 7, 2013 — 3:29 PM
terribleminds says:
Check with the publishers, Marla! They do offer books through various channels for reviews.
— c.
March 7, 2013 — 3:40 PM
marlarosebrady says:
Nice!! Thank you Chuck for the tip off!!!
March 7, 2013 — 3:45 PM
Wendy says:
I take it you modeled for the cover of Gods and Monsters?
Nice 🙂
March 7, 2013 — 3:33 PM
terribleminds says:
Hahahaha. Yeah, I wish I looked like that.
— c.
March 7, 2013 — 3:40 PM
Dave Versace says:
It’s hard to go past a Joey Hi-Fi, and that one is amazing, but that Gods and Monsters one is a pretty fine specimen too.
March 7, 2013 — 3:40 PM
Emily Wenstrom says:
I love your cover artist! I thought Balckbirds was really striking. Ten awesome points for Joey.
March 7, 2013 — 4:12 PM
Alan Baxter says:
Awesome covers.
Also, don’t mean to be a dick, but shouldn’t that be a comma in the Guardian quote, note a full stop? (Between slant and Wendig.)
March 7, 2013 — 7:10 PM
terribleminds says:
Alan — I assume so! I don’t think that’s the final quote, I think it’s just a placeholder.
March 7, 2013 — 8:15 PM
Alan Baxter says:
And a fine placeholder it is too!
March 7, 2013 — 8:27 PM
Gregory Lynn says:
Now I feel like I need to bathe…in bleach.
March 7, 2013 — 10:30 PM
Jules says:
Both are very good, intriguing, all that…but Blue Blazes is amazing. If I saw that cover glaring at me from a bookstore shelf, I’d buy the shit out of the book.
As it is, I will buy said shit outta the book regardless, but yeah, great covers!
March 7, 2013 — 10:42 PM
Pallav says:
I like the cover of Unclean Spirits more, it gives such a dark vibe…definitely gonna pick these up whenever they are available in India 🙂
March 8, 2013 — 12:11 AM
Sparky says:
Okay I was already sold on these things, based on the author, but the covers help immensely. It is a shame, I think that the kindle cannot convey covers near as well as the dead tree and ink books. Still a small price to pay though.
March 8, 2013 — 2:10 AM
Veronica Sicoe says:
Pure awesome.
March 8, 2013 — 2:33 AM
zerolost says:
Looks brilliant!
March 8, 2013 — 2:44 AM
Cam says:
Covergasm!!! These are stunning. Blue Blazes definitely scarred my retina and is now imprinted in my memory! This is a good thing! Are the release dates for the uk too?
March 8, 2013 — 3:30 AM
Phil Norris says:
Looking at the cover for Blue Blazes I call Michael Chalkis for the role of Mookie Pearl.
March 8, 2013 — 6:27 AM
terribleminds says:
Dang. Hell yeah.
March 8, 2013 — 10:10 AM