Tag: book cover

  • Science Fiction Recommendation!

    Science Fiction Recommendation!

    Just a note upfront – I’m biased. I was an alpha reader and that’s my cover on this book.  So you know, I’m proud of it! It’s a good book, and I think you ought to read it anyway.  Foreign Shores – military science fiction  Eric’s escape from Solitude quickly turns into a desperate attempt…

  • Covering the East Witch

    Covering the East Witch

      Art is easy. Design is hard. In a book cover, I have to capture the entire thing – and that’s not a picture is worth a thousand words. It’s more like the picture is a hundred thousand words. Oddly enough, it’s easier to do client covers. I can detach, step back, pull up comps…

  • Cover Reveal!

    Cover Reveal!

    I’m rather excited about this. It’s been a long, busy year, and I’d begun to wonder if I’d be able to release anything significant this year. Well, as I’m wrapping up Lab Gremlins, it’s looking like it will have a Halloween publication date. Only… There’s more to a book than the words which make up…

  • Graphic Stuff

    Graphic Stuff

    I have a post up at the Mad Genius Club this morning. The First Reader will have a post up here later today.  And I’m not talking about describing the gory bits in gruesome detail. No, I had planned to do a walk-through tutorial today about creating a logo for your writing business. I hadn’t…