Keeping Viva Magenta in mind, I thought it would be fun to create a palate of books across genres, voices, and categories that utilize the color (or something very similar to it) as the focus of the book cover. This is your roundup of Viva Magenta book covers. Grab one or several and read your way through the Pantone color of the year. I definitely plan to grab some of these…and maybe a notebook in this vivid color, too.
I’ve tried to credit cover designers where possible. This is the regular plea for publishers to put this information right on your landing page for each of your books to give the credit where it’s due.
You’ll notice something interesting here, as I did while poking around for these covers: Viva Magenta is a VERY tough color to match. Because it has a range of tones, even the swatches for the color are different, one being more pink and one more purple. Your screen resolution will make a difference here, and in some cases, the cover’s take on Viva Magenta goes more one direction than the other. The effect, of course, remains.
Let’s dive in.
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Of course…maybe those pretend feelings aren’t so pretend after all.
Kadlec’s memoir is about leaving the Evangelical church, breaking free from her “nice Midwest” roots, and coming to terms with all of who she is: a queer woman on a mission to build community. This is an especially potent read for any millennial questioning their faith, what it is they believe, and the institution of religion more broadly.
So when Hank comes back into town with his son, a famous alt-country singer, Sandy may just find herself falling back in love with the one who got away.
Stella and Violet met in college and it was an instant click. Stella is the party girl, always the center of attention, while Violet is the quieter one, often cleaning up the messes of her bestie. Once they graduate, Violet begins working herself to the bone at a New York cable news channel. She’s building herself a powerful career, one where she gets to be center. But Stella doesn’t like that and decides she deserves to keep being the center of their red hot friendship…and she takes on a job at the same network, intensifying their relationship. Just how far will either of them go to come out on top?
When Sasha’s own relationship comes to a crash, what happens when she begins to catch some feelings with a client?
This is a funny, clever take on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.
Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are in a Japanese internment camp and desperate to get home. Considered threats to the U.S. government during World War II, their actual citizenship doesn’t matter.
Things go from bad to worse as disease breaks out and now, the mother daughter duo are teaming up with a news reporter and a missionary to get to the bottom of what’s going on. What they did not anticipate was coming face to face with a horrifying demon or two.
Refusing to be hurt, Anna embarks on just that: getting involved in as many flings and one night stands as she can to not fixate on all of her own challenges. But as luck would have it, she might actually be falling for one of those partners. And when something horrible happens in Anna’s family, it’s Quan who really steps up to help set her on the course of a stronger, more composed self.
Nami Miyamoto is 18 and just graduated. She’s on her way to a class party when she’s murdered. Nami wakes up in Infinity, which is where human consciousness goes once the physical body dies and she learns that Ophelia — a virtual assistant used by humans still alive — is taking over the afterlife and has a mission to kill off human existence once and for all.
Nami and a team of fellow rebels are now in charge of trying to take down Ophelia to save human existence.
With Bindu is her daughter in law Ally, who divorced Bindu’s son years ago but has continued to live with her. The decision to move is one she’s surprised by, but might be one she can use for leverage at her job.
Enter Ally’s daughter. She’s about to lose her business if she doesn’t come up with the next great idea. After all, she is supposedly a tech genius. The investors want the slapped together dating app idea she came up with, and now, Cullie is panicking.
Three generations of single women are now going to figure out how to save each other’s jobs, secrets, and themselves.
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