J.V. Cruz

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Amateur writer with delusions of professionalism. ✳️ linktr.ee/janusvcruz 💫 Bethroned demo out now: https://cogdemos.ink/go/3627 📝

Book cover for 'Piranesi' by Susanna Clarke
Book cover for 'Sarahland: Stories' by Sam Cohen.
Book cover for 'Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science' by Alan Levinovitz
Book cover for 'Burning Girls and Other Stories' by Veronica Schanoes. A blurb from Karen Joy Fowler reads, "A beautifully written, sharply imaginative collection -- stories of vengeance and fury, stories of wit and grit."
Book cover for 'On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century' by Timothy Snyder
Book cover for 'Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs' by Camilla Townsend.
Book cover for Tamora Pierce's 'Song of the Lioness' quartet, which includes: 'Alanna: The First Adventure,' 'In the Hand of the Goddess,' The Woman Who Rides Like a Man,' and 'Lioness Rampant.'
Book cover for 'Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy' by L.A. Meyer
Book cover for 'House of Leaves' by Mark Z. Danielewski.
The covers for the first two books in Tamsyn Muir's 'The Locked Tomb' series. On the left is 'Gideon the Ninth' and on the right is 'Harrow the Ninth.' Each features the titular character in the center, surrounded by exploding bone shards and skeletons. Both characters have skeletal facepaint.
Book cover for the complete trilogy edition of Nnedi Okorafor's 'Binti' series.
Book cover for 'Gods of Jade and Shadow' by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
Book cover for Kurt Vonnegut Jr's novel, 'Breakfast of Champions.'
Cover of Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel, 'Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood.'
Book cover for the #1 New York Times Bestseller 'Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books' by Azar Nafisi. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of two young Iranian women clad in chador, huddled together with their heads angled downwards, possibly reading something not pictured. A blurb by the New York Times reads: "Remarkable . . . an eloquent brief on the transformative power of fiction."
The book cover for Justus Rosenberg's memoir, 'The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground.' The cover features three black and white photographs: a photo of the Nazi flag flying over Paris with the Eiffel tower in the background, a photo of soldiers on horseback, and a photo portrait of the author when he was a young man.
The book cover for 'Being Mortal' by Atul Gawande. It has a plain cream background with the texture of paper with a single blade of grass placed on it, in-between the author's name and the title. The top of the cover says, "NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO." At the bottom is a subtitle that reads, "Medicine and What Matters in the End."
The book cover for 'speak' by Laurie Halse Anderson. The background shows a high-contrast, close-up photo of a girl, bright, white, and washed out to the point that only her eyes, eyebrows, and nose are visible. Super imposed over the girl's face is a gray silhouette of a thin, young tree with sparse leaves. The cover includes a silver 'National Book Award Finalist' sticker on the bottom left. Under the title is the tagline: "The groundbreaking novel that changed everything."
The book cover for 'The Things They Carried' by Tim O'Brien. At the bottom is a quote from a review by New York Times, which says: "A marvel of storytelling. . . a vital, important book -- a book that matters not only to the reader interested in Vietnam, but to anyone interested in the craft of writing as well."
Official artwork for the video game 'Rage.' It features an apocalyptic landscape with ruined buildings arranged to form the title and a lone, pistol-wielding man walking towards it. It says, "FROM THE CREATORS OF DOOM AND QUAKE."
The book cover for the novel 'feed' by M.T. Anderson. The cover features what looks like the back of a person with a bald head. The person's light skin is highly saturated, appearing almost orange against a plain teal background. The top of the cover says "A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner." The bottom left corner has a circular silver sticker with an open book embossed in the center. Embossed along the curved edges of the sticker are the words: "National Book Award Finalist."
A logo that says 'Bethroned: An Interactive Story by J.V. Cruz.' The text is imposed over a landscape shot of grassy plains and hills. An icon of a crown sits above the title 'Bethroned.'