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A beautiful "painting" of upcoming book cover, held by illustrator.

I received an amazing surprise via FedEx yesterday. A package from Unicorn Castle Books. I’ve been working on a cover for a supernatural novel (a novel based on actual events, interestingly enough) HIM by Kerry D. King. And the surprise in the packing container was a giant “blow up” of the book cover.

Well, it wasn’t a total surprise.

The publisher had alerted me last week that it would be arriving. The surprise was that the detailed digital version of the cover I had created for the author’s spouse (who was going to surprise the author with a birthday present in the form of a large “painting” sized version of the cover) had translated so well into the poster-sized print. The detail was amazing and about floored me when I extracted it from it’s carefully padded shipping container.

Maggie our studio’s in-house muse immediately remarked, “The color is perfect for this room!” She was right, and she’s a stickler for having everything look as close to perfect as is humanly possible in the house (and also often gives excellent artistic suggestions during the creation of book covers). So this beautiful gift will soon be hanging on the wall alongside other of my treasured possessions.

As for the book, I’ll be reporting about the process of creating this book cover, as well as where you can buy the book when it goes into print.

In the meantime, a major “Thank You!” to the kind folks at Unicorn Castle Books who so generously sent this to me.

Now… Time to hang a new digital painting.

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Duncan Long was the cover artist for HIM, an upcoming novel from Unicorn Castle Books. You can find more examples of Long’s digital paintings at Duncan Long’s Artwork Portfolio.