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Are the girls ok? 😳 They’re collapsing onto sofas, hiding under the covers, disappearing behind curtains, banging their heads against walls, and generally having a spectacularly bad afternoon. 😭 We rounded up some of our favorite covers featuring leading ladies who are overwhelmed, unraveling, trapped, exhausted, or simply IN IT. 🫠 These are Women on the Verge…and they’re all over today’s book covers. Their circumstances may be unfortunate, but the book cover design is very, very good. Take a peek! 👀 See the full collection of Women on the Verge on the blog. Link in bio! Please comment or DM to help us tag any missing design credits. 🏷️ #discontentbook #sorrowandbliss #whatsgoingon #bookcoverdesign #megmason
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Another day, another gorgeous cover. It would be remiss of me to not call to attention the women who have designed some of my favorite covers as of late. Any covers that you can't stop thinking about recently? Mines has been the UK version of kitten by Stacey Yu😭
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Thrilled to announce our new arrival, born on 6am July 28 2026 (release date) but also right now (that’s on magic) baby weighs 1.05 pounds, proud parent: me (and my village). Mother and baby are doing well. Thank you for all of your support! You can pre-order my literary spawn in the link in bio. #glossygal #maincharacter #bookhardlaunch #books #memoir
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Dove by @georgiaharper_author Cover design by @_amydaoud Published by @penguinbooksaus ---upcomong event: see slide 4- many dates available we just have this date saved ... See comments for details
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I wrote the book I wish someone had slipped into my hands at 32. Juicy began in the grip of grief. Cracked open by heartbreak. Then danced with desire. And through it all, it became a philosophy of living. A path toward true aliveness. At 33, I stood in the ruins of the life I thought I should have: no partner, no children and no neat timeline. Instead, a pandemic, profound grief and the unsettling realisation that everything I’d been told to want – marriage, motherhood, security – might not arrive. Or, if it did, that it wouldn’t look anything like I’d imagined. Juicy is my memoir about choosing yourself when the life you were raised for doesn’t arrive. It’s about pleasure, solitude, appetite, healing, thriving, freedom and learning to live in the full kaleidoscope of colour. I wrote it across oceans, in kitchens and hotel rooms and borrowed apartments – but mostly at my sita Zahia’s house – tracing the question that has shaped my life: How do you build a beautiful life on your own terms? It is the work I am most proud of. Today, I am beyond thrilled to share the gorgeous (and frankly sassy) cover with you. Pre-orders are now open: https://PanteraPress.lnk.to/Juicy Thank you for walking beside me, for your voice notes, your DMs, your “when is it coming?” texts, your own stories of choosing differently. I feel the chorus of you in these pages. P.S. Yes, that’s my hand. Consider this my official pivot into hand-modelling. Hollywood, I’m ready. ROLL THE CREDITS: Publisher: @panterapress Cover design: @_amydaoud Cover photo direction: @marcusjoseph10 @marcelbreed Food styling: @chardaipage Photo editor: @jack_fisher Nails: the fabulous @mannequin.hands of course Heart-shaped tomato located through divine intervention by: my mother Hand model and creative director (Don Draper coded): Me. Obviously. Everything made possible by: @sweatshop.ws fam
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THE PALACE OF ANGELS By Mohammed Massoud Morsi Birds born in a cage think that flying is a crime. الطُيور اَلتى تُولَد فى القَفَصْ تَعتقِد أنَّ اَلطيران جَريمَة Interwoven in the anguish and trauma of Palestine, is a cross-border romance of ineffable charm—served equally with the remorseless realism of war and the bare-skinned surrender of two young warriors who break the rules. He, a Palestinian and she, an Israeli soldier—confront the tyrannies of power—political, religious, and personal. In a surge of almost giddying prose that pulls us page-by-page, that questions our values in a fever of anticipation, the reader is confronted by the dichotomy between love and the lifetime punishment of war. What do we ultimately become when we are bereft of hope? Are we really prepared to pay the price for what we believe? This trilogy of novels begins with the reckless urge of idealism. It traverses the personal narrative rarely heard and closes with a finale that any lover would applaud. It is irresistible reading. Originally published by Wild Dingo Press in 2019. UWA Publishing is releasing a 2nd edition to accompany the publication of Mohammed Massoud Morsi's new novel The Hair of the Pigeon. OUT MAY 2026 Available for pre-order from UWA Publishing and all good bookstores: https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/the-palace-of-angels Cover design by Amy Daoud   #ThePalaceofAngels #MohammedMassoudMorsi #UWAPublishing #AmyDaoud #literaryfiction The book cover for The Palace of Angels by Mohammed Massoud Morsi. The cover is bright blue with an artwork of an olive branch.
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THE HAIR OF THE PIGEON By Mohammed Massoud Morsi WINNER OF THE 2025 DOROTHY HEWETT AWARD If you fall in love, love a moon; and if you steal, steal a pigeon. إن عشقت اعشق قمر، وإن سرقت اسرق حمامه Ghassan grows up a free spirit among the constrained lives of the displaced in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, Syria. His best friends are Badawi, who is all football, fists and fast-money schemes, and Sama, the girl whose eyes mirror the sky. The ghosts of time, life and death remain hidden, but when the Arab Spring ignites a wave of protest and hope across the region, the drums of war begin to thunder, and devastating secrets rise to the surface. Sama is the first to disappear. The government’s brutal crackdown against dissent shatters their fragile world. Ghassan vanishes into one of Assad’s notorious prisons, where he is tortured mercilessly and barely survives. When he emerges from the underground, he finds Yarmouk camp under siege, his home in ruins, his mother changed, and his father dying. As fighters and civilians starve in a camp sealed off from the world, the truth of the past unravels. Told with aching intimacy and poetic force, The Hair of the Pigeon is an epic tale of exile, survival, and indestructible love, tracing a path from the atrocities of the Syrian civil war, across the Mediterranean, to present-day Copenhagen. Available for pre-order from UWA Publishing and all good bookstores. OUT APRIL 2026 Cover design by Amy Daoud #TheHairofThePigeon #MohammedMassoudMorsi #UWAPublishing #AmyDaoud #literaryfiction @mohammedmassoudmorsi @_amydaoud @theanjalisinghagency The book cover for The Hair of the Pigeon by Mohammed Massoud Morsi. The cover is bright red with an artwork of a pigeon in flight.
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I tried to resist, but this #2016 nostalgia thingy is catchy! So in #2016 ... * I quit my job at @walkerbooksaus after 10+ years. * Started a freelance editing and writing mentoring business. * Went on a wild SE Asian adventure with Pete - travelling through Myanmar, Northern Thailand, down the Mekong to Laos and Cambodia. * Met some wonderful women from ACT and started working with them as their writing mentor. * Had some fun times with writing best buddies - @sallymurphyauthor and @clairesaxbyauthor. * Finished writing the manuscript for MISSING, which would become my first middle grade bestseller. A memorable year! #2016❤️
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Day 95: Covers are a bloody personal thing for writers. My eyes were truly opened to this at the @sydwritersfest in 2016, when several authors told me that they hated their book covers (which, of course, we have little to no say in). First time around, Allen & Unwin told me what my cover was, which was fine, as I grew to like it. Second time around, the choice came down to two covers from a tranche of a dozen. One, I felt, was cheap and nasty, and would age deplorably. I politely expressed this to my publisher, and even though it may not have counted for much, we ran with the cover I liked, which was shortlisted for the 2025 Australian Book Design Awards (rightfully losing out to ‘Juice’). Third time around, I gave @macmillanaus a list of 10 scenes/still images from @u_want_it_darker that I felt were pertinent to the collection, and asked the team to get funky, as we needed to do something out of the box for short stories to get any traction in the current literary fiction market. Pan Mac DID get funky! I’d never speak so effusively about my own writing, but this cover truly ‘pops’ from shelves. It borrows a key image from the collection - Ivana’s lips - and gives the book an intriguing, enticing feel that the stories alone never could. My mother thinks it resembles soft porn, but I couldn’t be happier. Honestly feel it’s the best cover of the year. And by quite a long way. @_amydaoud, truly a privilege 💋 #100daysofdarkness @oblomovish
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Introducing ‘The Set-Up Girl’ by debut @loveozya author @sashaveywrites! 🎉 Working on this fantastic queer #LoveOzYA rom com has been a balm to my soul. Fun tropes, cracking romantic tension and a bisexual main character championing her identity? Perfection! Sasha, thank you for writing this story and having me along. I’m so impressed by your growth with every edit and can’t wait to see what you do next 💚 @dgraybarnett, thanks for saying yes immediately! It’s been a dream working with you. Your cover art perfectly reflects the queer joy in this book 🌈 @_amydaoud, I’m so happy we got to work together again! Your designs make everything 100% cooler. Thanks for always knowing what I need before I do. Feeling very grateful for the early supporters of this book. Beloved @eringoughwriter describes it as ‘Funny, romantic and relatable - a queer delight’, which is 100% accurate. And Dr @jodimcalister calls it ‘Utterly charming’. Approval from the Queen of Romance herself? I couldn’t ask for more! With queerphobia on the rise around the world, we need to champion young queer voices like Sasha’s now more than ever. You can pre-order ‘The Set-Up Girl’ at the link in my bio. And if you’re in Sydney, please join Sasha, Erin Gough and me for the launch at @betterreadbookshop on 7 August (link in bio). It’s going to be a magnificent night! ‘The Set-Up Girl’ (29 July 2025) Written by @sashaveywrites @highspotlit Edited by me! Cover art by @dgraybarnett @gildlings Designed by @_amydaoud Published by Anna McFarlane @allenandunwin Image description: a purple square tile with the cover of ‘The Set-Up Girl’ by Sasha Vey in the middle. The cover is bright yellow with hand-written type and colourful illustrations of a bisexual flag button, Polaroids of the characters, cute stickers, post-it notes, a music festival ticket and a badge that says ‘Hello, I’m … Reading. Leave me alone.’ A purple square tile with the cover of ‘The Set-Up Girl’ by Sasha Vey in the middle. The cover is bright yellow with hand-written type and colourful illustrations of a bisexual flag button, Polaroids of the characters, cute stickers, post-it notes, a music festival ticket and a badge that says ‘Hello, I’m … Reading. Leave me alone.’
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Congratulations @_amydaoud 🥂and thank you for Shadows' beautiful cover ❤️ Thank you @ultimopress for your perfect pairing, and thanks to @theabda for making us all very happy!
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honoured to be one of the judges for @theabda, the australian book design awards for 2025!! 📚❤️
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