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Title Design (and cover reveal):
@atthisarts revealed the cover for Cheryl S. Ntumy's @sauutiverse novella, "Songs for the Shadows", with Akintoba Kalejaye's illustration and my title and cover design (using my Andinkra-based font).📖
https://stephen.embleton.co.za/2024/06/adinkra-font-book-title-design.html
I’m grateful to have both “Bones & Runes” (novel) and “Undulation” (novella) as finalists in the African Speculative Fiction Society’s 2024 Nommo Awards.
“Bones & Runes” — Abibiman Publishing 2022
“Undulation” — Mothersound: the Sauútiverse anthology, Android Press 2023
🙏🏼📖👀💫
#nommoawards
Two stories from our MOTHERSOUND Anthology edited by Wole Talabi are finalists in their respective categories in the 2024 Nommo Awards:
• Novella: “Undulation” by @spembleton
• Short Story: “The Way of Baa'gh” by Cheryl S. Ntumy
💫🚀🪐
#nommoawards
Thanks to Mame Bougouma Diene for moderating an excellent panel at Nice Fictions on “The Building Blocks of Worldbuilding” where I got to speak about @sauutiverse and the world we’ve created, and hearing from co-panelists Michèle Laframboise, Stéphane Arnier and Benjamin Lupu. 🪐🚀💫
Watch the panel session here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/jodTu7Lvvt4
For those interested, you can now read the first chapter of Waypoint Seven for free over on Mirari Press: https://www.miraripress.com/
It was an absolute honour to be asked to read our dear departed friend, African SFF writer Nick Wood’s short story “A Pall of Moondust” for the BSFA podcast a few months back. I hope I did it justice, bru. 🙏🏼 ❤️
Now available to listen:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bsfa-pod/id1748575428?i=1000657378682
So, 2 weeks ago…🎨
It was a pleasure to create the cover for Sauúti colleague @xan_writer aetherpunk novella “Waypoint Seven” published by Mirari Press in South Africa.
It gave me the opportunity to explore my digital illustrating to the extreme.
RELEASING JULY 2024 📖 🔥 👀
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5DL8JGN
Find out about the process in my blog post:
https://stephen.embleton.co.za/2024/05/cover-illustration-design-waypoint-seven.html
!!!AND DRUMROLL PLEASE!!!
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Here it is, the cover for Waypoint Seven coming July 1st from Mirari Press. The cover was designed by Stephen Embleton.
One happy accident for the project was incorporating the “working” components of each letter in the design itself. i.e. when I work on fonts, I find the common weights (stroke thicknesses) and common shapes, and move these around to exact positions. And by making them separate BRIGHT colours (I use magenta and orange) enables me to see each section clearly.
I recently had the pleasure of creating something unique for a friend’s project (more on that to come soon!). And for reasons, I created a custom typeface, a latinised version of the Adrinkra alphabet from Ghana.
Adinkra has some fantastic characteristics and has a very modular form which made it a fun, yet simple, design to work on.
The Sauúti Collective
Xan_Writer