Friday, March 28, 2025

Cover Reveal: First Contact, Second Chances by Fay Abernethy



 
Creating a great cover may involve almost the same energy required for writing a book. The choice of colours, design and lettering requires a lot of attention and dedication that together with the story will ultimately lead to the overall success of the publication.

Hence, my interest in taking part to events aimed to display beautiful covers. I am usually accepting invitations for participating to cover reveal virtual events. I like the excitment of being part of a surprise book cover revelation and I am rarely disappointed.


The topic of the book announced by my current cover reveal is out of my reading comfort zone, but the visual presentation is more than satisfying. 

First Contact, Second Chances by Fay Abernethy is the third in the fantasy solar punk series The Shantivira Book. An ex-British officer, captain of the Shantivira is trying to protect the Earth from an alien invasion. But it seems that the Earth needs to take some radical measures, including an uplift and restructuring of the global economy in order to survive. His mission is difficult and put him in unexpected circumstances, such as fighting against cannibalistic space pirates. Sounds like a lot of fun, isn´t it?

The cover offers this mixture between serious and playful, with a predominant yellow and blue match. The graphic is very elaborated, especially the Zeppelin-like space ship. The lettering is taking control of the space at a certain extent, but in a very smooth way. 

For sure, one of those covers that would catch my eye instantly, before ever trying to find out what is the book about.

Many thanks to Rachel for having me for this event.

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