Wonderful news: Lois McMaster Bujold, one of my favourite authors, has announced a new novel, due sometime in 2016.
If you haven’t read Bujold, I strongly recommend going out, getting a copy of one of them and reading it right now (or you know, when the bookstore or library are next open)
The title will apparently be Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen.
This is a remarkable article describing how Faber & Faber (the publishers) are using a series of graphical parts and some custom software to automatically generate book covers for their new series of out of print works.
It works by using a standard layout for things like the title and the barcode, but then using parameterized graphics it generates a unique cover graphic for each book.
The covers fit within the style that has been chosen of course, but each is unique.
It’s really clever.