It’s the last day of November, and somehow, this novel is quite fitting for the end to the month! Today’s cover is Other/Experimental novel Better Late Than Ever by Bochard Wardein. This was designed by returning designer, Josh Silverman!

Better Late Than Ever

Theophile Douglass is newly deceased and for the most part enjoying his peaceful (if mundane) afterlife strolling the plains of purgatory devoid of any memories of his mortal life. Aside from the occasional inexplicable screams of agony from some nameless woman that target his every waking moment, he finds this existence of mediocrity and ignorance quite suitable.

Theo never wanted companionship, though it comes to him in the form of a completely ragged and lost soul of a young woman who has decided to attach herself to him indefinitely. Worse still, with her continued presence the memories come to flow like a slow bitter molasses to his heart.

The screams begin to form the memory of a name, and remind Theo of what was cruelly left behind. Of a debt he can no longer run from, even in death. Together with his new partner in eternity, Theo must attempt to reconcile with his mortal past to reach beyond the beyond to stop the deadly ripple of his actions on Earth.

About the Author

I am a 13 year victim/participant of NaNoWriMo who has had a passion for writing, reading, and all things book related since I could scribble. And while I have yet to win my goal of 50,000 words for any of my projects, I have found something amazing and worthwhile with each year I join. There is so much I have learned through my explorations in writing, and to someday know that my words have helped someone else along their own path is my fondest hope.

About the Designer

For 25 years, Josh Silverman has created successful relationships through design. He speaks and hosts workshops globally, teaches and critiques nationally, and is always connecting people and communities. He is currently Chair of the Master of Interaction Design Program at California College of the Arts, consults with Bunsen Studio in DesignOps and recruiting, and coaches design leaders. You can find him at mynameisjoshsilverman.com.

30 Covers, 30 Days is back! What is 30C30D? We match up 30 professional designers with 30 NaNoWriMo participants, and challenge the designers to create a book cover in 48 hours or less, based solely on that participants’ 2014 NaNo-novel synopsis.

The NaNo-novel: The Dove’s Return

In the realm of Ionad Domhain, two hundred years have passed without a hint of color anywhere… until two children are born with bright blue eyes.

Carolan and Felix Beckett, the Princess and Prince of the kingdom of Capercaillie, always knew that they were special, but they do not realize just how special they are until they hear of Linaria, the girl responsible for bringing beauty to the realm.

Carolan and Felix learn that an evil sorcerer named Sylen trapped the immortal Linaria for all eternity, thus dooming the world to a colorless existence. Together with Linaria’s younger brother, Morghan, they must battle Sylen and fulfill their destinies to bring beauty back to Ionad Domhain.

The Genre: Fantasy

The Author: Chessielover, Young Writers Program participant in the United States.

The Designer: Josh Silverman is a designer, serial entrepreneur, and relentless optimist. He’s the Founder & CEO of Startnership, a business delivering design and marketing tools to entrepreneurs for a fixed fee and on a fixed timeline. Josh is also bridging the professional communities of AIGA and StartOut (for LGBT entrepreneurs) in a series of conversations called Designtrepreneurs. He lives mostly in San Francisco, and occasionally in New York.

High-Resolution Book Art:

Today’s cover was designed by Josh Silverman, based on a novel synopsis by J. X. Evans.

120 Days of Gomorrah by J. X. Evans

Humanity is rocked by an unknown phenomenon which transforms people’s faces and bodies based on their personalities and actions. The world’s best scientists are slowly unraveling the mystery, and correlating mutation and cause, while more and more of their number wind up dead under strange circumstances.

Stefan Stefanson is an average man trying his best to live a normal life, and make sense of a world where it’s increasingly possible to know everything about a person just by looking at them.

About the Designer

Josh Silverman is a designer, educator, writer, and start-up investor.