Soul Enchilada Jacket Art

They say that every book has a story. If that is so, then the story behind the mak­ing of Soul Enchi­lada will start and end with the design–and the evo­lu­tion of the design–of the cover. The folks at Green­wil­low have worked on this puppy for months. In July, my edi­tor said that they had gone through a hun­dred of ideas, and I bet in the mean­time, they went through that many ver­sions once again. Lucky me, all I had to do was smile, because every ver­sion they showed me was ter­rific, and I knew if they were putting that much effort into one cover, I was one very lucky debut author.

I love the typog­ra­phy (dig the horns), the flames, and the tagline, the dev­ils is in the details. The way the pur­ple bug is framed by the tri­dents makes me laugh, and it brings a touch of humor to what could be a scary cover.

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