Falls ihr euch auch schon mal gefragt habt, wie es zu liebevoll illustrierten Buchcovern kommt, wer diese zeichnet und wie das ganze abläuft, kommt hier die Antwort 🩷😍✍️ Unsere liebe Labelmanagerin Lena ist bei uns verantwortlich für die Zusammenarbeit mit Illustrator:innen aus der ganzen Welt, die für uns Szenen, einzelne Charaktere oder Paare zeichnen, die wir dann auf Cover, in die Innenklappen oder Character Cards bringen. Dahinter steckt viel Arbeit, gutes Handwerk und eine Menge kleiner Einzelschritte, die dafür sorgen, dass zum Schluss die Feinheiten stimmen und euch die Charaktere so näher gebracht werden können.
Schreibt uns gern in die Kommentare, ob ihr Illustrationen, bzw. Character Art auch mögt und was euch persönlich besonders wichtig dabei ist 🥰💭
#illustrationen #characterart #charactercard #illustriertecover #aufbauverlage
No Mourners 🫡
guess what I’m rereading now 👀 I wanted to update some of my character designs for the crows, and explore some of their outfits a little more! It’s crazy that my Soc fanarts led me into pursuing illustration seriously, and now I do it full time. Wish I could draw the crows full time but alas, the rarer the sweeter 🖤
Gouache and Prismacolour Pencil // Characters belong to Leigh Bardugo 🖤 @lbardugo
#sixofcrows #kazbrekker #kanej #fantasyillustration grishaverse
Happy Valentine’s Day from Juliet and her lover boys. Sure, one of them’s a ghost and the other is the angstiest boy that ever lived, but that’s part of the appeal. By next valentines these haunted fools will be in your hands (if you want them, that is. But I think you’re gonna want them. 🤭👻🖤🍷🥀)
BABY’S FIRST CHARACTER COMMISSION (of them together ofc) 🖤
I’m thrilled to finally share this stunning illustration by the insanely talented @millyillus of Lena and Oliver from RABBIT HEART. She captured them perfectly—Oliver’s wide-eyed curiosity, and Lena’s devotion to a divine purpose that is absolutely NOT sinister in any way
RABBIT HEART is about two college students who head out on a road-trip to dig up the folklore of local cryptids. But Oliver doesn’t know Lena has a secret—she’s leading him to the sacrificial altar of the eldritch horror she and her family have been serving for generations.
A few goodies you’ll find in this story:
🌿 Forest folklore & ancient cryptids
🍄🟫 A family that is definitely NOT a cult
🌿Doomed romance / there was never another ending
🍄🟫 She would díe for him. She would also kíll him
🌿 Golden Retriever x Black Cat (to the maxxx)
🍄🟫 Roadside oddities, suffocating forests, and one blond man who must endure just so, so many situations.
If you want to stay updated on this story, feel free to sign up for my néwslétter in my bio. More to come!🖤
#bookstagram #horrorromance #doomedromance #folkhorror #booktok
🦇 Today The Book of Blood and Roses is out in the UK! 🦇
And what better way to celebrate than by sharing this stunning art by @millyillus ? I love how Emily captures these characters and she has done it once again 💖
It's been incredible to see the physical book in shops and to be tagged by so many wonderful people who've spotted it in the wild.
The Book of Blood and Roses is a sapphic romantasy about a vampire hunter who infiltrates a secret university in the Scottish Highlands and discovers her roommate is a gorgeous vampire, so if that sounds like a good time to you, please pick it up!
#sapphicbooks #darkacademia #enemiestoloversromance #readingrecs #scottishbooks
angels & demons 🐺🍝
A very belated happy New Year 🌷 At long last here are some of our more modern shadowhunters and downworlders from the Mortal Instruments series - there’s so many characters and I feel I could do full spreads of just Izzy, Alec and Magnus 💫 also I fear this doesn’t make my love for Simon Lewis apparent; so let it be known.
Gouache and prismacolour pencil // characters belong to Cassandra Clare
#themortalinstrumentscityofbones #tmifandom #claryfray #jaceherondale #magnusbane
dust & shadows 🗡🔥
I’ve been finding it hard to get into any new media - there’s something about winter that always makes me nostalgic, and I want my books and movies to have that cosy feeling, which means that I often end up rereading series I’ve loved for a long time. This might also be the longest series I’ve ever read; there are so many of these books!! The shadowhunter books, especially the Infernal Devices trilogy, were an ultimate obsession of my teenage self - hence why I still love angst in my characters 🙃
Here are (some) of the cast of the Infernal Devices and the Last Hours - should I draw the modern cast next? Anyone in particular you want to see? Not going to lie I missed out on drawing Magnus Bane in his 1800s outfits, and I really want to draw Maia so there may have to be more 🥀
Gouache and Prismacolour Pencil
Characters belong to @cassieclare1 🖤
#tmifandom #shadowhunters #yalit
So excited to share this stunning art by the immensely talented @millyillus , featuring Rebecca and Aliz from my debut novel, The Book of Blood and Roses. I can’t get over how perfectly she captured their personalities!
Emily illustrated the German cover of The Book of Blood and Roses, so it feels extra special to be working with her again. You may recognise her style from the bookmarks that are going out with the preorder swag, too!
The Book of Blood and Roses is a sapphic paranormal romance novel coming out in January with @delreybooks and @michaeljbooks perfect for fans of Buffy, enemies to lovers, yearning, and dark academia.
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In the mists of the Scottish highlands lies a university where vampires and humans alike live and study.
But there is one student very different from the rest.
Rebecca Charity. Vampire hunter.
Undercover at the university, Rebecca is searching for the mysterious Book of Blood and Roses, a lost compendium of ways to kill vampires. If she finds it, she’ll be one step closer to avenging her parents who were slain by vampires three years ago.
But when Rebecca arrives, she finds something, or someone, unexpected.
Aliz Astra – heir to one of the most powerful vampire families . . . and the most beautiful woman Rebecca has ever met.
She is everything Rebecca has always hated, but also everything she has ever wanted, and now she doesn't know if she wants to kiss or kill her.
When, on a moonlit night, Aliz rescues her from a vampire attack, she accidentally makes Rebecca her familiar. And they must work together to break the curse before the next full moon.
Growing closer by the day.
Can a vampire hunter ever fall in love with a vampire?
#paranormalromance #sapphicauthor #thebookofbloodandroses #vampireromance #enemiestolovers
ART REVEAL ✨
GUILTY AS CHARMED, an adult cozy fantasy romcom, features a first-year public defender for sorcerers tasked with a magical triple-homicide case that could be her first big break or the thing that ruins her career before it has really started.
The sleepy town of Port Lilac has:
✨ a magical chain of coffee shops
💕 sorcerers and non-sorcerers
✨ an emporium where everything that is lost is found
💕 a forbidden love story with *so much mutual pining*
✨ law-themed puns
💕 two feline sidekicks
✨ perfect autumn vibes
rep: @weaverliteraryagency
art: @millyillus
#booksbooksbooks #bookrecs #onsubmission #onsub #cozyfantasy #cozyfantasyromance #cozyromantasy #romantasy #bookish #authorsofinsta #authorsofinstagram #writingcommunity #bookstagrammer #bookstagram
Eine Vampirin, eine Vampirjägerin, die schottischen Highlands und ganz viel Dark Academia Vibes – müssen wir hier überhaupt noch mehr sagen? 🤩🧛♀️🥀🖤💫☕ Undercover in der Vampir-Uni: »CURSED« von Annie Summerlee ist DAS Buch für alle Fans von Ali Hazelwoods »Bride« & »Mate« und der Bücher von Carissa Broadbent 🔥Wie großartig ist bitte die Illustration von Emily (@millyillus ) auf dem Cover?! 😮💨😮💨😮💨
Klappentext:
Im Nebel der schottischen Highlands verbirgt sich die uralte Tynahine University für reiche Vampire. Mittlerweile werden auch Menschen zugelassen – die perfekte Tarnung für Vampirkillerin Rebecca, um nach einem verschollenen Handbuch zur Vampirjagd zu suchen. Doch als Rebecca in Tynahine ankommt, steht neben ihrem Bett ein Sarg. Ihre Mitbewohnerin Aliz ist der Spross einer mächtigen Vampirfamilie – und die schönste Frau, die Rebecca je gesehen hat. Dann werden die beiden auch noch durch einen Fluch aneinander gebunden, und Rebecca weiß nicht mehr, ob sie Aliz küssen oder umbringen soll.
💘 Jetzt überall dort vorbestellbar, wo es Bücher gibt 💘
📖 Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2026
#anniesummerlee #cursed #coverreveal #romantasy #queerromantasy #darkacademiaromantasy #darkacademia #vampireromance #aufbauverlage
HAMLET & JULIET announcement for the grid! Featuring the absolutely STUNNING art by @millyillus Hamlet has never been more brooding, Juliet has never been more determined, and Romeo…well, he may be dead, but that doesn’t mean he’s gone.
I can’t wait to welcome you to the midsummer festival at Castle Elsinore. Conspiracies lurk, prophecies unravel, and ghosts abound — some of them rather amorous, others rageful. Swipe for snippet 👀
January 2027 from Delacorte Press @dellromance@randomhouse
We’re only days away from Halloween. The veil is thinning, and somewhere in the ruins of an old chapel, lit only by candle light, Rosemary and Ellis from Love at First Fright are getting hot and heavy.
A million thank yous to @millyillus for the phenomenal art of this scene from Love at First Fright, a spicy paranormal romance that’s available from @dellromance and @delreyuk now!
