2019 Debut Author Challenge Cover Wars - COVER OF THE YEAR!

It's time to vote for the 2019 Debut Author Challenge COVER OF THE YEAR! Below you will find the 12 monthly winners in alphabetical order by book title (excluding "the" or "a" or "an", etc.).

Vote for your favorite from the monthly 2019 Winners! Note that there was only 1 debut for December 2019 so it is automatically the December 2019 winner.

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Voting will end sometime on January 30, 2020 unless voting is extended.

Vote for your favorite 2019 Debut Cover!

The Age of Anxiety

The Border Keeper

Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones

Gideon the Ninth

The Gutter Prayer

The Hungry Ghost

Lies of Descent

A Memory Called Empire

The Revisionaries

The Vine Witch

Waste Tide

Westside

 

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November

Cover illustration by Luis Toledo at Dutch Uncle

Cover copyright © 2019 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.

July

Illustration by Kathleen Jennings

Cover design by Christine Foltzer

February

Cover art by Chris Thornley

September

Cover art by Tommy Arnold

Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill

January

Cover art by Richard Anderson

June

Cover design by Najla Qamber

August

Jacket art by Ryan Pancoast
Jacket design by Katie Anderson

March

Cover Art by Jaime Jones

December

Book design by archiefergusondesign.com

October

Cover design by Micaela Alcaino

April

Cover art by Victor Mosquera

May

Jacket design by Owen Corrigan

Jacket photograph © Utro_na_more/iStock/Getty Images (glove);

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2019 Debut Author Challenge - December Debuts

There is 1 debut novel for December.

Please note that we use the publisher's publication date in the United States, not copyright dates or non-US publication dates.

A. R. Moxon

The Revisionaries
Melville House, December 3, 2019
Hardcover and eBook, 608 pages

All is not boding well for Father Julius. . .

A street preacher decked out in denim robes and running shoes, a phony holy man for a misfit urban parish, Julius is a source of inspiration for a community that knows nothing of his scandalous origins.

But when a nearby mental hospital releases its patients to run amok in his neighborhood, his trusted if bedraggled flock turns expectantly to Julius to find out what’s going on. Amid the descending chaos, Julius encounters a hospital escapee who babbles prophecies of doom, and the growing palpable sense of impending danger intensifies. . . as does the feeling that everyone may be relying on a fake preacher just a little too much.

Still, fake or no, Julius decides he must confront the forces that threaten his congregation—including the peculiar followers of a religious cult, the mysterious men and women dressed all in red seen fleetingly amid the bedlam, and an enigmatic smoking figure who seems to know what’s going to happen just before it does.

The Revisionaries is, in the end, a wildly imaginative, masterfully rendered, and suspenseful tale of one man trying to differentiate between reality and fantasy in order to find the source of his faith. It will summon to mind the bold outlandishness stylishness of Thomas Pynchon, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Moore—while being unlike anything that’s come before.

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