STEPHEN VOLK

Pedro Marques: Book Designer Extraordinaire

24/8/2020

 
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High time I gave a shout out on this web site to the vastly talented Pedro Marques, the cover designer behind, I'm glad to say, all the fiction books I have done with the marvellous PS Publishing, so far. Whatever the dubious quality of the prose contained between said covers, the books, I always know, will look damn gorgeous. And it's always exciting to see what he comes up with. 

As PS themselves said in a recent newsletter, Pedro is one of a select bunch of artists who design the whole book; interior text and graphics, signing sheets, slipcases, the whole shebang!

​His most recent work for PS includes The Complete Short Stories of Mike Carey, and The Divide, playwright Alan Ayckbourn's debut novel. He also worked on the interior book design and cover arrangement using Dani Serra's artwork for Angela Slatter's collection The Heart is a mirror for Sinners.

Pedro is currently working on up and coming PS projects The Big Blind by Lavie Tidhar (his eighth Lavie book) and Stephen Volk's Under a Raven's Wing (his fourth). (More info on that latter project as it comes in.)

Meanwhile, is this really a photograph of the elusive Pedro, or simply "fake news" created by a quick trawl of the internet? Perhaps that fine looking lobster knows, but he sure as hell ain't telling...
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Octavio dos Santos link
25/8/2020 05:21:01 pm

I know Pedro Marques personally and I can assure that the man in the photograph above is not him. Pedro is younger and better looking. ;-)

Pedro has (so far) worked on (three) books of which I'm an author, and in those books he also displayed his great talent and many skills. Look at the covers! There is «Um Novo Portugal» («A New Portugal»), a collection of some of my articles, chronicles and essays...

https://fronteiradocaos.pt/loja/critica-ao-portugal-contemporaneo/um-novo-portugal-ideias-de-e-para-um-pais/
  
 ... «Mensageiros das Estrelas» («Messengers from the Stars»), a collective anthology of SF & F short stories...

https://fronteiradocaos.pt/loja/ficcao-contemporanea/mensageiros-das-estrelas/

... And «Poemas de Alfred Tennyson» («Poems by Alfred Tennyson»), selected and translated by me, the first book published in Portuguese with works of that great english poet...

http://www.saidadeemergencia.com/produto/poemas/

... Of which the inside is another demonstration of Pedro's high quality as a designer. 

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