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E-mail YingI literally did cartwheels when Deb Wayshak, my editor at Candlewick (she’s a novelist, too – prolific and critically acclaimed and thus, y’know, not intimidating AT ALL) told me they’d commissioned a photo shoot for the US edition of SPY. While I love the elegant, glowing UK cover, I was so curious to see how other people imagined Mary Quinn. The final cover is not quite ready for the world but its designer, Caroline Lawrence, took some behind-the-scenes snapshots of the cover shoot so that we could all participate, too.
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- These are typically elaborate Victorian undergarments.
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- Corsets were often tight enough to rearrange one’s internal organs. Hopefully that’s not what’s happening here.
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- Victorian ladies always had help dressing, if they could afford it.
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- It makes sense. Can you imagine doing all this alone?
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- Buttons: they’re tricky. Also funny.
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- (Background: a New York fire escape.)
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- 100% authentic Victorian hair spray
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- Hours after they began…
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- I love this shot. Mary Quinn also time-travels!
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- On set. The background will come later, from a stock photo.
Have you recovered yet? I haven’t. Remember, you have just under 3 weeks left to enter to win a copy of SPY.
Tags: A Spy in the House, Canada, cover art, hardcover, photo shoot, The Agency, US, Y S Lee