30 Covers, 30 Days 2016: Day Two

Every November, during National Novel Writing Month, thirty professional designers volunteer to create book cover art inspired by novels being written by aspiring authors from around the globe. Why? To encourage new, diverse voices, and help build a more creative world.  

30 Covers, 30 Days is presented in partnership with designer and author Debbie Millman.

Read more about these NaNoWriMo 2016 novels-in-progress, and the cover designers, below.

Sideshow Baby

A historical novel being written this November by Colleen Faye in the United States.

From 1903 until 1940, a bright sign marked a new Coney Island sideshow. It read, “All the World Loves a Baby.” Beyond was a white hospital tent filled with rows of transparent boxes, each one holding an infant born prematurely. Patrons paid to see the impossibly small babies who, without the medical incubators the carnival provided, would not have survived. The technology to save these “preemies” didn’t exist in America and was scorned by doctors as non-maternal or blasphemic until one man, Martin Couney, revolutionized medical care with his sideshow act.

Through the stories of a nurse, a wet nurse, and a woman who owes her life to the carnival, morality conflicts with groundbreaking science in Sideshow Baby.

Cover Designed by Holly Aguilar

Holly Aguilar is an award-winning designer and illustrator, so if anyone does judge your book by its cover, she’s got you…covered. By day, Holly is a senior art director at Balcom Agency, the largest marketing firm in Fort Worth, Texas.