Meliade Book Design & Print

Hey folks,
I'm proud to say I wrote and designed my first book. Meliade is a little bit of a dream project of mine (in more ways than one), as I've always wanted to tell stories and draw characters since I was a little child, and this project is the ultimate combination of that. Meliade is the result of my life's work so far, and the start of my path as an author and artist going forward.
Meliade tells a scifi thriller story with some action and surreal elements throughout. Below is the blurb:

"They call it EV-A, or Eve: A newly discovered energy source, a new light.
When horrific side-effects threaten the life of a young boy in her care, Avryll Rétierre is forced to reach back into her dark past and reconnect with her mother, Madeline Rétierre, who pioneered emergent technologies through the use of Eve. Among the white spires and winding streets of Alexandria, Avryll discovers buried secrets of her past, her emotions and the horrors of a world hidden from the light.”

The book has been self-published at the start of this year and that journey, in itself, is worthy of a longer blog post. Meanwhile, to anyone interested, the book is available on Amazon, in Paperback or Hardback (here displayed). I have chosen not to make it available digitally as an Ebook, because the conceptual idea behind the project was the creation of a physical, collector's item, featuring high-quality print. A book you can hold in your hands as a unique object is infinitely more precious to me, I believe, than a digital copy.
Photography by Simona Iglikova.