The Artwork of Jett Landry
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Micky Mitchell is the artist who creates the covers and associated artwork for the Jett Landry novels. When we talked about the cover for Bad Reputation, one of the ideas was to revisit a sketch she drew a few years ago of a 17-year-old Jett from the first Jett Landry novel, The Fuse, and then draw a similar image of Jett at 30 years old for the cover of Bad Reputation.
On the left of the image in the link above, is Jett, wearing headphones, listening to her favorite music, preparing to train for a karate tournament. At that time, Jett's father, private detective Markus Jackson, sheltered an already troubled Jett from the harsh realities of his work.
Thirteen years and a lifetime of experiences later (read Urban Legend, The Fierce Warrior, Under the Gun and Nine Lives), Jett is now the savvy, but jaded, private detective dealing with the harsh realities of the world she inherited. In the image on the right (the cover for the upcoming Bad Reputation novel) Jett is listening to a podcast on her headphones, likely of a local journalist and blogger talking about her, running her reputation into the ground, as he tends to do.
A lot has changed in the 13 years between these images, but Jett is still the idealist determined to take on the bullies and protect the oppressed. It's just who she is.
A big thanks to Micky for the amazing artwork. They're more than covers and sketches; they tell their own story. They make me work harder to write the story that the artwork deserves.
Micky Mitchell is the artist who creates the covers and associated artwork for the Jett Landry novels. When we talked about the cover for Bad Reputation, one of the ideas was to revisit a sketch she drew a few years ago of a 17-year-old Jett from the first Jett Landry novel, The Fuse, and then draw a similar image of Jett at 30 years old for the cover of Bad Reputation.
On the left of the image in the link above, is Jett, wearing headphones, listening to her favorite music, preparing to train for a karate tournament. At that time, Jett's father, private detective Markus Jackson, sheltered an already troubled Jett from the harsh realities of his work.
Thirteen years and a lifetime of experiences later (read Urban Legend, The Fierce Warrior, Under the Gun and Nine Lives), Jett is now the savvy, but jaded, private detective dealing with the harsh realities of the world she inherited. In the image on the right (the cover for the upcoming Bad Reputation novel) Jett is listening to a podcast on her headphones, likely of a local journalist and blogger talking about her, running her reputation into the ground, as he tends to do.
A lot has changed in the 13 years between these images, but Jett is still the idealist determined to take on the bullies and protect the oppressed. It's just who she is.
A big thanks to Micky for the amazing artwork. They're more than covers and sketches; they tell their own story. They make me work harder to write the story that the artwork deserves.
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