So something very exciting happened yesterday and I can now show you the cover for my forthcoming first collection, Near Future, which will be available from  Nine Arches Press in November 2018. Look: 

I originally thought I’d like some futuristic architectural drawings in the style of Archigram but it was very hard to get permissions for the use of these. In the end I found this image on Pinterest of all places, and discovered Bryan Olson, the collage artist behind it. It instantly felt like the right sort of thing. I love the geometric shapes and the deep-space sky. I very much like that the little figure is a woman. I was nervous about how pink it is but I saved the image to my phone and after a lot of staring at it I started to love the pink. In fact I still do stare at it to cheer myself up. The diagonal text was Jane’s (Commane, Nine Arches Editor) idea. We tried it in other places on the cover but it just wasn’t as compelling.

I hope you enjoy the cover. I hope you eventually come to enjoy the book inside it, once you get to read it. I am still unused to the idea of it being in the world, but I’ve got a bit longer to get used to that idea and to get even more excited!