30 Covers, 30 Days 2017: Day Three

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 2017 novels-in-progress, and the cover designers, below.

The Book Keeper

A mystery novel being written this November by NaNo participant K. McCann in the United States.

Books have souls, as do the characters within them.
Unknown to the vast world population, however, there is another dimension where the book worlds and characters can interact outside of their stories.  

Now imagine: if you were a character in, say, a Jane Austen story, playing along to the same tune for the past 200 years, repeating the same lines for millions of readers, you would get pretty bored after a while.  After all, the part you play in a performance isn’t always who you really are.  Wouldn’t you want to take a break? Stretch your legs? Maybe explore a different field of character? 

Enter the character exchange program! It’s a program where characters from different stories across the millennia of fables new and old can switch roles with each other and play the part of another life, another world, another story.
But beware…if you are lost, or if you fall to your doom in a horrific tragedy outside of your own written realm, you have doomed not only your life, but the very life and soul of your story, as well. 

We wouldn’t want that, now…would we? 

Cover Designed by Michael Braley

Michael Braley’s book, brand, package, poster and print design has been recognized internationally. His work is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, Denver Art Museum and Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, Germany. His work has appeared in: British Design & Art Direction, Clio Awards, Global Biennale of Graphic Design: Moscow, Graphis, Type Directors Club, Communication Arts, London International Awards, Art Directors Club, The One Show, Society of Typographic Arts and Print. Braley also lectures and leads design workshops at universities and professional organizations around the nation.