Jim Tierney illustrated the cover to My True Love Gave To Me: Twelve Holiday Stories, a wonderful winter anthology edited by Stephanie Perkins. Yesterday, he revealed his cover art for Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories, also by Stephanie Perkins. I love how he illustrated Summer Days and Summer Nights similarly to My True Love Gave To Me. They look fabulous next to each other and the colors contrast nicely. In terms of design, Olga Grlic did a wonderful job with the typography. Both anthologies complement each other nicely. The deciduous trees, valley and lake is perfect next to the coniferous trees, mountains and frozen lake.
Check out some of Tierney's art work on his website. I cannot wait to match up the couples on the cover of Summer Days and Summer Nights with the characters in the anthology. I hope someone makes an animated version of the cover just like My True Love Gave To Me and I hope there is a lovely UK version because I love my UK version of My True Love Gave To Me.
The author line up for Summer Days and Summer Nights is fantastic. I am looking forward to reading stories by Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Stephanie Perkins, Veronica Roth and Jennifer E. Smith. Ms. Perkins revealed Marigold and North will be back which I am ecstatic about because "It's a Yuletide Miracle, Charlie Brown" is my favorite story in My True Love Gave To Me. Check out more information about Summer Days and Summer Nights here!
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| North and Marigold from Stephanie Perkins's website |
The anthology will be released June 14, 2016. It's perfect timing to start next summer! What do you think about the cover art? Will you be picking up Summer Days and Summer Nights next June?
I love it! I just wish the release date was sooner. Stephanie Perkins seems to put together the best anthologies. Can't Wait!
ReplyDeleteStephanie Perkins is fantastic as an author and an editor. We need to definitely buddy read this anthology!
DeleteI am slightly less excited about this one compared to MTLGtM simply because winter and Christmas are my FAVORITES but I am still quite eager to check this one out. And really happy they have the same cover designer because the artwork is just the cutest and best.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree Christmas and winter stories sound more exciting than the summer love ones and I was more excited to get my hands on MTLGTM.
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