Atlantia Cover Art Reveal

As of this morning, Atlantia has a cover! The upcoming collection of short stories set in the Color of Water and Sky series was once again designed by series regular, Sarah Anderson!

I’ve written about my thoughts on the cover before, but essentially the gist is that I wanted to feature three characters; one from each of the stories included in the collection. The woman on the left is a soldier from the NAS from the story Downfall, the woman on top is the last survivor of the Descent from the story Descent, and the teenage boy on the right is a settler in Cassidy City from the story Allora.

The cover draws inspiration from the poster for the film, Glass, along with the format of previous cover art from The Color of Water and Sky books. Below is an image of the poster for the film, Glass, and the cover art for Cassidy. You can see how Atlantia‘s cover draws inspiration from elements from both.

One thing that makes me particularly excited about the cover to Atlantia is the abundance of green. Other books in the series, Iris, Kholvaria and Veznek, are largely blue and in the case of Iris and Veznek, there is also a lot of black. Hive and Cassidy are a little more varied with orange. But green has been lacking. The green on Atlantia‘s cover (which was Sarah’s idea, not mine) will stand out among a stack of books that are largely dark blue, black, or orange. It will add a good visual diversity to the series. I am very excited about that!

Here you can see the spine of the book lined up with Cassidy:

As you can see from the image, aside from the obvious color difference, Atlantia is also a tad bit longer than Cassidy. While Cassidy still remains the shortest book related to the Color of Water and Sky series, Atlantia now comes in at a close second.

Due to some personal things going on right now, it may be awhile until I can finalize everything for a finished deliverable product. Therefore I expect Atlantia to be released sometime later in the summer – perhaps sometime in August. I will have more information on Atlantia‘s release date later in July. Right now, that is all I can say.