Morning Star by Pierce Brown

Published by Del Rey, 2016.

 

Binding completed in 2026. 

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Limited set of copies available - $1,300. Please contact me if interested.  

The use of an alternative textblock is possible if provided. 

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Materials

Bound in goat leather with laced in boards. The design features hand dyed onlays in goat and calf, foil tooling, and handpainted page edges. The endpages are bugra paper that have been painted with acrylic paint. 

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Design Statement

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"We're the light, and we're spreading."

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For Morning Star, my final guiding concept was hope. For all the darkness and violence in the series, the story ultimately bends toward light. There's a stubborn, hard-won belief that something better can be built, even when the cost is brutal.

The lines sweeping upward across the cover are meant to feel like lift and momentum, representing a rising force that refuses to be pinned down. They're edged with colors to honor the ones carry that hope forward. A Red may have sparked the revolution, but the fire has spread. Blues, Pinks, Violets, Obsidians, Browns, and Greens: each bring their own strength, sacrifice, and stake in the future.

I decided to mirror some what we see in the design for Red Rising. Here the red dots rise to the top and gold drops to the bottom. The page edges reverse as well: a field of red, marked with gold blood, signaling a shift in power and the violent upheaval required to make hope real.

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Read more about my design choices here. 

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