Award Winning Stonewiser book - cover illustration by Duncan Long

I’ve had the pleasure of creating the cover illustrations for the first two Stonewiser books (and am currently working on the third cover illustration). Written by Dora Machado, these books are technically fantasy novels, but have a bit more depth to them than is often seen with this genre.

Machado’s extra work in crafting her characters and plot have paid off.

Yesterday Bryan T. Marshall, head honcho at Mermaid Publishing, LLC wrote, “Stonewiser: The Call of the Stone was awarded the gold medal for the 2010 IPPY Award! That means every book in the series is an award winning book!! Let’s see what the concluding book will do! Thanks again for all you help in making it a success!”

Now obviously the book cover illustration wasn’t the deciding factor in this novel winning an IPPY. But it likely helped, because no one talks a book with a poor cover too seriously. That said, it’s nice to have played a small part in Machado’s success.

You can read more about Machado’s books at the Mermaid Publishing’s site.

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Duncan Long is a freelance book cover illustrator. In addition to Mermaid Publishing, Long’s illustrations have appeared on book covers from HarperCollins, PS Publishing, Pocket Books, Solomon Press, Fort Ross, and many other publishers and self-publishing authors. See more of his book cover illustrations at: http://DuncanLong.com/art.html
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