Week 6: Outfoxed by the Fox

Audition for the Fox steals the spotlight

Audition for the Fox emerged victorious in a strong Week 6 lineup, its playful composition and high-stepping energy edging out the competition.

Week 6 Winner: Audition for the Fox by Martin Cahill

Hats off to Martin Cahill and the team at Tachyon Publications!

Meet the Week 7 Contenders

This week we are shifting species. The Week 7 covers are full of human (or almost human) mouths, teeth, tongues, and lips. Whether disembodied, fanged, dripping, or shouting out, they all demand your discerning eye.

Sweetener by Marissa Higgins (Catapult, August 19, 2025): A lesbian screwball comedy in which two Rebeccas (exes) end up dating the same artist (who’s been wearing a fake pregnancy belly to all her hookups). It’s messy. It’s sticky. It’s sweet.
My Heresies by Alina Stefanescu (Sarabande Books, April 29, 2025): Abstract yet intimate, these poems explore womanhood, grief, and myth through lush imagery and Eastern European memory. Equal parts sacred, profane, and haunted.
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove (Bindery Books, June 3, 2025): Dracula boards a spaceship. To stop him, a sentient AI teams up with a werewolf, a zombie engineer, and a vampire with a grudge. Pulp horror meets space opera in the queerest of crews.
She's a Lamb! by Meredith Hambrock (ECW Press, April 8, 2025): A theater usher obsessed with stardom spirals into delusion and sabotage in this darkly comic suspense novel. Think Yellowface with showtunes and yogurt commercials.

Week 7 Lineup

Voting is open now through Sunday at 11pm ET. Whisper it into a cavernous mouth and wait for the echo.

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Bracket Update

Last week I added the first game to the Book Jacket Bracket Arcade. Run for Cover is a frantic race to shelve falling books while climbing the ranks of a glorious library career. It’s free, browser-based, and ridiculous.

The book covers in the game update as the tournament progresses, so each week you’re shelving the very same contenders you just voted on, plus all the favorites from weeks of yore.

Run for Cover browser game – Shelve books and dodge chaos in the Book Jacket Bracket Arcade

Play Run for Cover in the BJB Arcade

Onward, to Week 7, with bared teeth and soft hearts,

Will Pass
Book Jacket Bracket Guy