The cover art for the three books in the Club and Fang trilogy show different aspects of the werewolves that feature prominently in the books. As the third book in the trilogy came together, I’d need a cover. This was an opportunity to create new covers for the first two books.

K. Nightingale, a fabulous visual artist, created three new covers. As inspiration, I found covers from other fantasy novels that I found appealing, and I assembled key scenes from each book that might suggest a cover. Then I let the artist’s imagination take over. The new covers share a similar style (and text font), but each one is different in color palette and subject matter.

In the first book, Only the Moon Howls, teenage werewolf Caleb O’Connor flees the death of his best friend, a death he might have prevented, for the mountains of Romania. The cover contains a distant castle on a pine-clad promontory in the Transylvanian Alps. In the foreground, a trio of wolves howl at the full moon. Lights blaze from the castle’s many windows. Do the castle’s occupants fear the dark or the creatures that inhabit the darkness?

In the second book, The Wolf’s Den, Caleb O’Connor returns to Bar Harbor, Maine after six years of self-exile in Romania. He uncovers a vampire plot and clashes with the Hellhounds, a pack of Harley-riding werewolves. On the cover, a distinctly hairy rider wears a leather vest with the Hellhounds logo and sits astride a shiny red motorcycle. Man or beast? The answer is left to the imagination as the rider’s head is out of the picture.

In the third book, Blue Moon, a teenage girl is attacked by werewolves on the night of the full moon. Caleb O’Connor must find the pack that bit her while fending off a shadowy cabal intent on wiping out werewolves. On the cover, the full moon hovers near the red-purple, pre-dawn horizon. A young girl, her back to a large tree, stares wide-eyed at four wolves, arrayed in a tense semi-circle.

The next art project for the Club and Fang trilogy is to create character portraits. Stay tuned for more!