#- Book cover

[dr-graf]

[thereadersdesire]

[mustelidsinlove]

The Isle of Ogygia by citrusses on AO3

There is an island, far out in the sea.

It’s useless to fight Potter. Isn’t that the lesson he’s refused to learn his entire life? // “Harry,” he says, as instructed, the word another link in the chain he’s binding himself with. // Potter comes back the next month, as reliable as the tides. Draco starves for him when he’s not there. // But Harry is also clearly a walking disaster and would apparently rather be kidnapped than face the mess he’s made of his life, so if Draco wants to spend the next four years eating Harry’s pancakes and fucking Harry until he can’t walk, he needs Harry to get his head right. // “There’s still a chance we could starve to death,” says Draco. “A bad enough storm could come in and–” “Then we’ll starve,” Harry says, smiling at him, and Draco gives up, because he’s finally learned his lesson about fighting Harry Potter.

A perfect little miracle of a story, almost fairytale-like in its rhythms, setting, and concision — though I don't know any fairytales featuring a protagonist quite as petulant, arseholey, or delightfully unfiltered (in the narration) as this Draco. Its real triumph might be the world-building, though, which is accomplished swiftly, elegantly, and uniquely — creating an expansion to the magic of the HP universe and portkeys that I will be thinking about for a long while. The dynamic is lovely as well: an easy relationship, that still honors the fact that these are two broken boys in need of saving. The smut is very good, too, as is the ust. 

Art:

(1) A Fisherman's Bedroom, Christen Dalsgaard, 1853

(2) Eddystone Lighthouse, Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, print made by W.B. Cooke, 1836

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[thebeautifulbook]

HORAE — LIVRE D’HEURES d’Etienne Alleaume, seigneur de Verneuil-sur-Siene, en latin et en français. [aka BOOK OF HOURS] (1651)

Held by Bibliothéque de l’Arsenal

[garadinervi]

I Spent the Last Year Learning to Love Green, Photographs and text by James Talbot, Slow Worm Press, (2022-)2023, Second Edition [Actual Source, Provo UT. Art: © James Talbot]

[noosphe-re]

[misforgotten2]

A book you very likely don’t have on your shelf #736

Cover by Hoot von Zitzewitz -- 1967

[smbhax]

The Hobbit 1985 Lithuanian edition - cover illustration by Mikhail Belomlinsky

[artist-ellen]

Mock Book Cover 18: 'Lessons in Chemistry' by Bonnie Garmus

I really don't know much about this book, other than the continued conversation around it's cover design. Specifically how the UK (original cover?) and US editions have very different market strategies. I had fun throwing my hat into the ring. A little bit of chemistry, a little bit of retro/vintage baking.

The Challenge: Create a book cover in as little time as possible (don't look at me like that I have work and, shockingly, a full roster of commissions. Name of the game is fast or not at all). I am not allowed to make new art or illustrations for the covers, it must all be either old art I've made repurposed, or stock images. I have to make them on Photoshop, using only my trackpad (because I don't want to dig up my mouse from wherever it's hiding). And yes, the weird digital layer is on purpose in hopes of dissuading scrapping. Part 2 is to try to actually edit them into videos for TikTok, wish me luck!

I am the artist! Do not post without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: instagram, tiktok or check out my coloring book available now \ („• ֊ •„) /

https://linktr.ee/ellen.artistic

[nemfrog]

Dancing bugs. The population of an old pear-tree. 1870. Book cover.

Internet Archive

[horrorme]

Tom Adams

[celialowenthal]

My cover for "Monsters of Fife: Sea Dragons" by Jane Yolen, out from Charlesbridge Publishing in June 2025. I also illustrated the interior. Thanks so much ADs Jon and Ellie!

[dr-graf]

art for dust jacket

[belovedapollo]

bought this gem secondhand and can’t get over how stunning it is 🪐 reblog is okay, don’t repost/use

[thebeautifulbook]

CODEX ROTUNDUS (Flanders, c.1480)

Held by Dombibliothek Hildesheim, Germany.

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