{"id":7203,"date":"2022-04-12T20:22:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/?p=7203"},"modified":"2022-10-26T20:13:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T00:13:52","slug":"sister-maiden-monster-cover-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/sister-maiden-monster-cover-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister, Maiden, Monster Cover Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the cover for my cosmic horror novel <a href=\"https:\/\/tornightfire.com\/catalog\/sister-maiden-monster-lucy-a-snyder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sister, Maiden, Monster<\/em><\/a>, which Tor Nightfire will release next February. The story is set in the aftermath of our planet\u2019s disastrous transformation and told through the eyes of three women trying to survive the nightmare. For those who have been following my short fiction, the novel is a significant expansion of my Stoker-winning story &#8220;Magdala Amygdala.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SISTER-MAIDEN-MONSTER-final-cover.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7206\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/sister-maiden-monster-cover-reveal\/sister-maiden-monster-final-cover\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SISTER-MAIDEN-MONSTER-final-cover.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1613,2475\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SISTER MAIDEN MONSTER final cover\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;SISTER MAIDEN MONSTER final cover&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SISTER-MAIDEN-MONSTER-final-cover-667x1024.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7206\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SISTER-MAIDEN-MONSTER-final-cover-667x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"SISTER MAIDEN MONSTER final cover\" width=\"667\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SISTER-MAIDEN-MONSTER-final-cover-667x1024.jpeg 667w, https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SISTER-MAIDEN-MONSTER-final-cover-196x300.jpeg 196w, https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SISTER-MAIDEN-MONSTER-final-cover-768x1178.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SISTER-MAIDEN-MONSTER-final-cover-1001x1536.jpeg 1001w, https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SISTER-MAIDEN-MONSTER-final-cover-1335x2048.jpeg 1335w, https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SISTER-MAIDEN-MONSTER-final-cover.jpeg 1613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cover was designed by <a href=\"https:\/\/reedsy.com\/lesley-worrell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lesley Worrell<\/a>. The artists who created the amazing image are Francisco Abril and Nuria Velasco, who go by the name <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/welderwings\/?hl=es\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Welder Wings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Welder Wings started creating their stunning, dark digital collages about six years ago. Most of their work, like the image for my cover, falls in the general category of gothic surrealism. In an interview for Artist Connect, they said, &#8220;We are passionate about art in any of its facets and what we really like is to mix everything that pleases us into a new artwork.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Here&#8217;s the cover for my cosmic horror novel Sister, Maiden, Monster, which Tor Nightfire will release next February. The story is set in the aftermath <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/sister-maiden-monster-cover-reveal\/\" title=\"Sister, Maiden, Monster Cover Reveal\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[156],"tags":[139,9,97],"class_list":["post-7203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-books","tag-cosmic-horror","tag-horror","tag-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Sister-Maiden-Monster-Cover-Reveal_Twitter_Nightfire.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qT6f-1Sb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7763,"url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/sister-maiden-monster-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":7203,"position":0},"title":"Sister, Maiden, Monster News","author":"Lucy A. 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