My first book cover as a photographer!
Yep, I shot the cover for Black Gat's edition of Stella's novel Eddie's World, and I could not be more chuffed. Stella is one of my favorite crime writers, a hell of a guy, a loyal family man and sports fan, and a passionate, entertaining social commentator whose only flaw is that he wouldn't know a good bagel if it bit him on his Buffalo Bills-loving rear end. Here's what I wrote about Stella in the Philadelphia Inquirer:
"Much of a crime novel's texture comes from the bits between the main action, and no one writes those bits better than New Jersey's Charlie Stella. If you like Elmore Leonard, you'll love this guy and his funny, unsparing yet sympathetic looks at mid-, high-, and low-level mobsters, hangers-on, and cops."Judge the book by its cover, or the cover by its book. In this case, it really is all good.
© Peter Rozovsky 2015
Labels: Black Gat Books, book covers, Charlie Stella, cover photos, Harry Whittington, Leigh Brackett, noir photos, Philadelphia Inquirer, photography, Stark House Press
posted by Peter Rozovsky at 5:39 PM
24 Comments:
Bravo! I would stop and have another look in the bookstore. Well done!
Great news all the way around! Thanks for the exciting announcement!
Thanks, RTD, but I'm not sure the books will be in stores before spring. I hsven't even seen a copy yet. That shot was from the author's announcement of the book.
Thank you, Krauss.
That's so cool, Peter! It looks great. I haven't read Stella yet, but this will boost him for me.
I was naturally thrilled when the publisher told me he was considering my work for a cover. I was even happier some time later when I found out who the author was. I have read all Stella's books, and Dana King and John McFetridge are fans, too, so you know you can't go wrong.
I don't listen to anyone's bushwa about bagels.
Charlie, like many people who have never tasted Montreal bagels, thinks New York bagels are something special.
The Online Etymology has it related to turbid rather than travel. Troubled waters, I guess.
Better than being subjected to a torture instrument that has three stakes, the root of travail, any day.
Oops. Too many windows open, I guess.
Congratulations. They chose a good photo to capture the essence of the book. Having seen your work, they had plenty of good examples to choose from.
I've read EDDIE'S WORLD (all of Charlie's stuff, actually) and it's a good one. (As is all of Charlie's stuff.) Let's hope Stark House gets his entire oeuvre back into print, and you do the covers for all.
Thanks, Dana. I've read all of Charlie's stuff, too, and I think everyone ought to do the same.
Philip,
Congrats on the photo cover.
Is that a South Philly street?
Paul
Peter,
Sorry, I addressed you as Philip in the last message.
I must of been thinking of Philip Marlowe...
Paul
Paul: Thanks.Yep, that's in South Philly, all right. And I am flattered to be thought of as Philip Marlowe.
Congrats, Peter!
Many thanks!
Congratulations! Classy stuff.
Thanks, Paul. Charlie Stella is very much worth reading, too. I mentioned above that I looked his work even before this cover gig.
Breaking dormancy here to discover that you are now a famous, published photographer.
Very well done, Peter.
Great cover for a great book. Another reason soring can't get here soon enough.
Thanks, John. It's nice to have my first cover shot be for an author whose work I enjoy so much, even though he knows diddly about bagels.
Maria, not famous yet, and not published, really. We crime-novel-cover phtographers must stick together. Perhaps we can toast one another in Dublin.
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