Knight Fall

Here’s my cover design for the third, and latest, book in Joe Ducie’s The Reminiscent Exile series.  Knight Fall should be out around July/August and the first two books, Distant Star and Broken Quill can be purchased now in both ebook and paperback editions.

As with the previous two covers, Joe came up with a great concept for the cover image which I then translated into a rough sketch to make sure I was on the right lines before proceeding to the final art.

It was also recently announced that Joe was a winner of The Guardian Hot Key Books Young Writers Prize.  So I have to say a big congrats to Joe!

Two winners were chosen from over three hundred entries by a panel of judges comprising of various professionals as well as students from Evelyn Grace Academy and Thongsley Fields Primary School.  Joe’s winning YA novel is a thrilling escape story entitled The Rig, about a teenager who has made a career of breaking out of high-security prisons, which has landed him at a specialist juvenile holding facility in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, called The Rig.  The book won’t be out till September, but you can read the first chapter online here.