Sian Wilson is a Senior Designer at Simon & Schuster UK. Among her works is the cover design for Dani Atkin's This Love. Wilson answered questions for Spine about her process in developing the piece. 

Nathan Burton is a London-based freelance designer and illustrator. He created the cover for Homegoing, published by Viking. Spine contacted him about the cover. Here is his process for designing the cover in his own words.

Nick Stearn is an art director based in London. Among his works are the covers for James Swallow's Nomad and Exile. We contacted Stearn about the designs. Here is his process for developing them, in his own words.

The most enjoyable part of cover design for me is coming up with something concrete and visual to illustrate an idea. If the idea is straightforward, the solution is usually pretty simple— if you want to say "love" in a visual way, you draw a heart— but when the idea is complex, like the idea behind Unmistakable (Portfolio Penguin 2016), you need an image that hits several notes at once.

"Reading the manuscript, I was struck by just how empty Guy seemed, and that’s what I wanted to evoke on the cover: an empty suit…the term ‘stuffed shirt’ also came to mind. A simple suit on a hanger wouldn’t work, though: there needed to be an indication of something ‘missing'. By removing the head, and more importantly the face, from the figure, Guy’s humanity has been replaced by his name. A name that’s synonymous with the generic. He’s no longer a man, he’s a symbol."

"I had the pleasure of designing the cover for Siri Hustvedt’s masterful 2014 novel, The Blazing World, so when Simon & Schuster reached out to me to work on A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women, I immediately said yes even before looking through the brief."

Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich is a designer based in New York City. His portfolio of work includes the cover of Carol Rifka Brunt's Tell the Wolves I'm Home, published by Penguin Random House. Here is his creative rationale for the design in his own words.