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Photo courtesy of Catherynne M Valente Everything is perfect. Isn’t it? We’re excited to share the cover for Comfort Me With Apples, a terrifying new thriller from bestseller Catherynne M. Valente, for fans of  Gone Girl and  Spinning Silver—available October 26th from Tordotcom Publishing. Armed with her signature lyrical prose, Valente examines the “perfect relationship” under a lens both feminist and extra-ordinary. In her hands, the uncanny and the commonplace, the past and the present blur and merge—and the beginnings we thought we knew are simply endings of another story...

(1) INTRODUCING BUTLER TO NEW READERS. Elizabeth Connor describes the work of “repackaging the Patternist Series for the Mother of Afrofuturism” in “How to Give Octavia Butler the Covers She Deserves” at Literary Hub. …After some back and forth—and plenty of discussion with the editor acting as mediator—we determined that by elegant, they likely meant more stylized human forms in more sophisticated poses, as well as a textural or brushy quality to the art (as there had been on the Parable books), that lent an air of being hand-drawn rather than machine-made. As for dynamic, we...