Saturday, September 17, 2011

Hill Billy Highway Book Cover Design

My buddy Chad Nance of Weird Load Nation fame has a book coming out soon called "Hill Billy Highway". It's a Thompsonesque (as in Hunter S.) take on the South and politics and wild living. Chad approached me a couple of months ago to come up with some cover designs for him. I was glad to give it a try, been a while since I have had a fun design project. This was not my first book cover having done one for my Uncle Gunnard a few years back for his mystery book "The North Shore". Lucky for Chad (and me), I had a wealth of great photos to work from provided by our mutual friend,  Casey Gwinn. Not only is Casey a great photographer, but he was Chad's sidekick and documented many of the adventures described in the tome. Casey also does a blog of his photos called COGfoto check it out. I believe there may also be photos from one or two other folks used in the final design you see pictured, so Casey or Chad, weigh-in with a comment and give credit where it is due. Now, I need to get back to work on my own book...

OK HW

UPDATE - Just confirmed, "Hill Billy Highway" will be released October 1, 2011!

4 comments:

  1. There are also photos from our buddy WWIII and Areigh Sampson, the road manager for Your Mama's Big Fat Booty Band.

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  2. Very good. Thanks' for clearing that up. When's the book coming out Chad?

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  3. October 1st is the official... but we may have it on Amazon sooner.

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  4. Yeah Chad when is the book coming out? No pressure.
    Very nice design Mr. Weaver. I can't wait to get my copy.

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