Alice Claire Coleman

This is the cover of Household Lore by Liza Frank. It is a dark midnight sky full of stars. There is a three story purple house with trees growing either side and an owl on a turret. The garden is full of flowers and there is a crooked path to confuse fairies.

Right then! 🚨 To celebrate publication of my new book Household Lore on 11 November, I'm doing a special Folklore Agony household edition! Are you experiencing a problem in your house that conventional wisdom (and cleaning solutions) have failed to solve? Why not ask the Folklore Agony Aunt? 1/2

cover of Gogmagog by Jeff Noon & Steve Beard. A harbor/boat in green with a gold city behind it

Cover of Ludluda by Jeff Noon & Steve Beard. A harbor/boat in green with a gold city behind it

💙📚 #bookchallenge #30daybookchallenge
day 29: book cover i love: Gogmagog/Ludluda

You're very sweet! ❤️ It's been such a pleasure - I'm very grateful for the opportunity to design such a magical book! ✨

I've had a lot of fun designing @lilithepunk.bsky.social 's upcoming book, Household Lore! It's filled with beautiful, spooky illustrations by Yuri Pilishkin, alongside lots of fascinating insights and folktales! 🖤 I can't wait for people to see it!

Key art for Kingdom Two Crowns: Norselands (2021)

✨✨Pub Day ✨✨

Thankful for @simonguy.bsky.social, Watkins Publishing, all MA supporters, @penprince.bsky.social (for this beautiful review), my family who encourage my efforts and Life for this glorious experience. The Watkins Book of African Folklore is yours as much as it is mine ✨

This is extraordinary.

Took me by surprise too!! Time certainly flies!

Happy birthday Gogmagog! This was such a fun cover to design; I still love that beautiful artwork by @ianmcque.bsky.social spanning both covers in the series ✨

Huge congratulations to @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social !! Such a wonderful illustrator and collaborator; everything she touches is magic ✨

Huge congratulations Eleonor!! I'm delighted for you - it's so well deserved!🥳🥳🥳

Dear Mr Stride, can you please help me and other UK children’s book illustrators? The governing is considering AI policy measures that would make us, as copyright holders, ‘opt out’ if we don’t want tech companies breaching our copyright to train their systems. The big companies then use our own art in competition against us. The UK ought to be proud of its children’s book tradition. Our artwork is exported all over the world, and by giving it away free, we’re ruining the industry. Children will be poorer: there’ll get dumbed-down, mechanical books that have no real person thinking hard about each aspect of them. My colleague Steve Antony described it: “It’s like allowing someone to break into my house and steal my belongings so that they can research, recycle and resell them, unless I stick a label on each and every one of my belongings that says ‘DO NOT STEAL’, even though the objects are clearly not theirs and clearly within someone else’s house. That house bring my copyright. It’s absolutely ridiculous, makes no sense, completely destroys existing copyright laws and insults every single one of us.” Please, could you stand up for us and out copyright? If you could mention our concerns to Feryal Clark, Minister for AI & Digital Governent, and to Chris Bryant, Minister for Creative Industry, Arts & Tourism, I’d greatly appreciate it. Warmest wishes, Sarah McIntyre, Illustrator & Author, Bovey Tracey

A handwritten letter on my illustration work desk to my local MP, Mel Stride, asking him to help UK children's book illustrators keep our copyright during the current AI policy consultation ✍️

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It's so irritating! Years of prioritising squares for a nicely curated grid, and suddenly everything looks a bit wrong! 😭 Shame there's no option to choose which you prefer!

I'm so happy to hear that!! It was such a lovely book to work on! ❤️

Wonderful news! Congratulations!! 🥳

Some of my favourite design briefs have come from @simonguy.bsky.social and this was one of them! @hm-nde.bsky.social 's lovely book about African Folklore has been such a joy to work on! ✨

I'm so happy with how this book turned out! @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social 's endpapers and interior illustrations are such a beautiful feature! Love them so much! ❤️

One of my very favourite book design projects this year! I'm delighted to see the first copies of The Watkins Book of African Folklore in print! ✨🐍 Big thanks to Watkins and @hm-nde.bsky.social ❤️

For @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social , with stunning design by the wonderful @onecuriouschip.bsky.social !🔮

Evocation + Ascension 😊

Happy cover reveal day Ascension! ✨ I loved working on this ruby red cover design with the team @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social and featuring absolutely stunning artwork by @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social ! Can't wait to share more from The Summoner's Circle series by @stgibson.bsky.social ! ❤️

Book post! Shoestring Theory is such a charming story, and it was such a fun cover to design! We went all in with a vibrant pink illo and lots of super shiny gold foil! ✨ Published by @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

Set of book covers for Gogmagog and Ludluda by Jeff Noon and Steve Beard. Design by Alice Colman, illustration by Ian McQue.

So nice to see these two beauties side by side finally. Cracking design by @onecuriouschip.bsky.social

A copy of Gogmagog and a copy of Ludluda. Published by Angry Robot. The cover art depicts ramshackle buildings on a river front and a city beyond.

Look, I am going to post these again. Because I adore these strange and gnarly and beautiful possibly fantasy, possibly something else books. And @ianmcque.bsky.social and @onecuriouschip.bsky.social did an amazing job on the covers and Ludluda comes out in December and Jeff and Steve deserve joy.