Presenting the New Covers of Our First 4 Books
We've taken a different direction in our art design as we announce our upcoming titles.
Last month, we parted ways with our partner in this publishing company, who had served as art director and vice president. After an unfortunate falling-out, we realized that technology has advanced quite a bit in the years since we began this endeavor. After some experimentation, we confirmed that we could now create better artwork for our company - and even design the book covers!
So we're thrilled now to present some of the first fruits of our efforts. Within a month of taking on cover design ourselves, we have reimagined our first four book covers. All four books have been submitted to our distributor now (with the first already available in ebook! Check it out!), and we’ll let you know about their release dates when we receive them.
For more examples of our new visual vibe, you can see the welcome images for our five Substacks, as well as their logos, here:
Introducing Our New Visual Aesthetics
We made the decision this week to begin to develop a new visual style for God of the Desert Books. We have chosen to emphasize our Mojave desert ethos by incorporating Joshua trees into our designs.
To understand why we have chosen a pi symbol with lightning bolts in the desert as our logo, please check out this statement of principles:
PIIZAPS: The 7 Primary Publishing Principles for God of the Desert Books
This is the 30th installment of the “Axis of Genocide” series at this Zionist Substack, the successor to the “Antisemitism and Culture” series which can be read in two 30-essay collections here and here.
And here are the new covers, accompanied by the books’ descriptions:
About:
What makes a young American Jew who was never encouraged to move to Israel (whether by individuals or in an organizational framework) suddenly decide to do so at age twenty-eight? How does a young American Jewish family, with little background in Hebrew, make its way in a new, highly distinct culture with no more than a shallow resemblance to American culture?
This memoir by P. David Hornik traces the (many would say unlikely) emergence in its author of a fascination, a passionate concern, and finally an identification with Israel that left him, he felt, no choice but to relocate there. On the one hand, his parents were Austrian Jewish refugees from Nazism; on the other, the family moved to what was then a rural area of New York State where almost no other Jews lived—resulting in a rich, complex, but confusing and difficult identity to navigate.
This book opens a window on modern Israel as seen by an immigrant both deeply patriotic and (at the same time) carrying a cultural baggage from across the ocean. It is also a highly personal story of the author’s quest for inner peace and fulfillment amid the pressures, strife, and special vitality of the old-new Land.
Now available in ebook and coming soon in paperback.
About:
Jon Bishop initially was interested in writing fiction, particularly short stories. And the poems demonstrate that. The poems are adjacent to the dirty realism style practiced by Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, and Jayne Anne Phillips. They offer a gritty, stark look at what goes on behind the walls of our homes.
This collection contains both free and metered poetry, although most of the poems here are written without meter.
About:
The technologically advanced planet of Perdicion has had quite enough of the rebellious Red Colonies and has dispatched a fleet of ships with the destructive capacity to wipe them from existence. At the center of the conflict between the two warring factions orbits the primitive, untouched blue planet, Parthenos. Both sides want her for their very own—to colonize, to exploit, to rule.
Yet this “other blue planet” has an unlikely protector, Commander Solus, an attack ship captain whose mission is to protect the inhabitants of Parthenos from the vicious civil war that threatens to spill over into the primitive world. He faces an awful choice of corrupting this pristine world either from ideological enemy tyrants or from his own people’s technology, which has the ability to remove all free will and forever change this world’s destiny for the worse.
We already live in a time when we will not leave home without our little personal electronic assistants—our smart phones, our tablets, our GPS systems. This is a cautionary tale of worlds at war over technology so advanced it is integrated with the user’s DNA. This has caused a civil war, pitting those who depend on the controlling technology against those who hate the very idea of it.
About:
Veteran-turned-priest Father Kevin Thrall may have traded his dog tags for a clerical collar, but even in his quiet post-combat life of service to the Church, he's haunted by the horrors of war.
But his determination to seek the truth in all things - and his rather unusual skill set - make him the perfect choice for a provocative, ultra-secret Vatican mission: unveiling the implications of a secret prophecy before it can bring down the entire Catholic Church.
In 1917, Mary, the Blessed Virgin, revealed a mysterious prophecy to three Portuguese shepherd children. The three Secrets of Fátima were closely held by the Vatican for decades until the text of the third and last secret was finally released in 2000.
At least, that's what most people think.
Father Kevin Thrall undertakes an adventure to top even his battlefield exploits as he confronts spy rings, world-class criminals, temptations, and even his own faith and destiny to protect the Church he loves - and the very fate of the world.
There's no room to fail. And everything depends on him.
What’s coming next:
A historical fiction novel set in the South just after the Civil War with characters and a plot based on real people.
A literary satire novel set now in New England, featuring a devious, mischevious protagonist you won’t figure.
A world-building guide for writers working to develop realistic governments and political systems for their fantasy and science fiction stories.
A supernatural mystery thriller centered around an old grimoire with dangerous powers.
A poetry collection from one of the authors featured above which is even more extraordinary than his fantastic prose
The first in a five-part action-thriller series set in a near-apocalyptic world following an EMP attack on America.
And
and I will be jumping in soon with our own exciting projects now in development.Thank you, GOTD subscribers, for your encouragement and support! It means so much to us.
So exciting! Great titles and great graphics. I look forward to connecting witg these reads!
That poetry book cover is exciting, an extremely rare adjective for a poetry book cover.