30 Covers, 30 Days 2011: Day 18

Today's cover is brought to you by the talented Elena Giavaldi, who designed this image in 24 hours:



Letters to a Root-Beer Flavored Moon by Evangeline Crow

Casper "Copper" Denali is your average guy; well, your average guy with a male-oriented love life, and an eccentric best friend and on-and-off boyfriend, Tomas "Tom" Raynor, whom he's known since he was eight. There are some major problems, though. The first on the list in October of 2013 is the fact that he's just found out that his younger sister is pregnant (by Tom), that his other childhood friend, Alice Lidden, is about to move away, and that his favorite bookstore just closed. 

To top it all off, Casper picks up a small bottle at the beach, a bottle which contains a postcard with a fantastical looking device on it, the words 'wish you were here', a small journal entry, and a return address from some place called 'Atlantis'.

As Copper's family slowly disintegrates around him, he's forced to make a leap of faith, and try to meet up with his Atlantean penpal. 

All this while the bridges that hold the water out of Atlantis are slowly cracking, and one Atlantean discovers that his penpal is suddenly making a trip to the world of the deep to come see him.




Elena Giavaldi was born in a small town in northern Italy, and moved to New York in 2008 to look for fortune (yes, in the middle of a world financial crisis). After having worked in Italian book publishing, she finally had the chance to taste the American version. She worked for Rodrigo Corral and freelanced for different publisher. She is currently Art Director at Mucca Design.

@Evangeline - your story sounds AMAZING! are you really only 14?! (that's a compliment btw) holy CROW (pun possibly intended?! lol) . and I LOVE the title of your book - its so unique and cool! i would definitely read it! probably mostly based on the title alone, out of curiosity would make me pick up the book and then the synopsis would hook me in! :)

I like that. Different and eye-catching.

Best title EVER

NICE TOM!!!! -Tyler

I LOVE the title, and I would DEFINITELY read this if I saw it in a book store. I also love how simple the cover is. :3

Both the cover and synopsis are fantastic. I really like those colors together... it's very soothing.

I actually really want to read this, I'm not going to lie. This is about the most interesting thing that's caught my eye here so far xD

So cool! I love it! I also like how the meaning of the title is not revealed in the synopsis, because it makes me want to read the book even more to find out what the title is!!!! I love random sounding titles as well.

Wow, that's a fabulous cover and I'd love to find out what the title actually means. The synopsis sounds very interesting and mysterious! Definitely a book I'd pick up and read into in the bookstore. Kudos to both of you! :)

I would have bought the book on the strength of the title alone. Honestly, it stopped me in my tracks. The cover, too, though, is one of my faves. Well done!!

Very nice job. The cover made me smile and remember those A&W rootbeer days.

Lettering is easy to read, at least, and the design is neither so complex as to irritate nor so simple as to look like a second rate effort. That being said, there is very little illustrating in the illustration. Looks very cheaply put together, and I think a more sensitive approach to the author's subject could have been included to make it more personal, and less like a generic bread-wrapper.