The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel, Scribe

Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984: the year a heat wave scorched Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil.

Sal seems to appear out of nowhere – a bruised and tattered thirteen-year-old boy claiming to be the devil himself answering an invitation. Fielding Bliss, the son of a local prosecutor, brings him home where he’s welcomed into the Bliss family, assuming he’s a runaway from a nearby farm town.

The Australia/New Zealand edition of Tiffany McDaniel’s debut novel was published by Scribe, with a captivating cover design by Allison Colpoys. For the title, she chose Black Future, an angular condensed script – or connected italic – with broken curves, by Cucu Supriyadi of Indonesian type design studio Seventh Imperium. The author’s name is in Albertus by Berthold Wolpe. Colpoys rendered the letterforms by hand. For Black Future, she eliminated the connecting strokes and introduced a drip effect to hint at the heat.