{"id":861,"date":"2024-02-21T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atomic-hair.net\/?p=861"},"modified":"2024-05-09T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T15:25:51","slug":"15-of-the-best-book-covers-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/atomic-hair.net\/index.php\/2024\/02\/21\/15-of-the-best-book-covers-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"15 of the Best Book Covers of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fair amount gets written about book cover trends. And there are absolutely trends, stylistic themes and sales\/marketing mandates at play in publishing\u2014but whenever an editor asks me to write about them, I generally flee into the digital night. Not because I\u2019m bad at spotting them (I am), but rather because when you lump work together, you miss out on all the outliers, exceptions and anomalous covers that will inevitably start the next wave of trends\u2014not to mention the jackets that manage to play and innovate within any given one.<\/p>\n

As someone blissfully lost in the magic of minutiae at the cost of the big picture, here are a few highlights from the cache of covers that have been published or announced this month:<\/p>\n