So today the latest novel GOD OF RAIN
is officially ‘out.’ Available ’most anywhere — your local
bookstore could even order it for you (and that is fine with us —
support local businesses!). Print and ebook, as usual. Try it, you’ll
like it! (or any of my other books)
I’d like to say a few words about
covers. Having an art background, I have designed my own from the
start (and, I hope, improved to a high level of mediocrity). It
should be obvious that I do not care for the generic ‘movie poster’
covers on many genre offerings, the girl, the soft focus background,
all the cliches. I tend toward the abstract.
And I feel these are better at catching
the reader’s/buyer’s eye. Large, bold, and simple elements. They
don’t have to say anything about the text, just project a general
sense about it, create a mood perhaps. This is all the more important
online where the cover picture may be reduced to a thumbnail. I have
used a silhouette approach on many of my cover designs; I am not
particularly tied to it but want continuity between related titles in
overall look, typefaces, and so on.
I am around half way through getting
the narrative in shape for the next novel, another fantasy. More of a
fantasy than some of my novels which I might better describe as
‘adventure with a fantasy element.’ It is a semi-sequel to THE
EYES OF THE WIND, following one of the secondary characters from that
book. Expect it to show up some time this summer; after that, who
knows? I may be busy editing novels for other writers. I’ll also
putter at getting another poetry collection together — no hurry on
that one. Dates on all of this to be announced, sometime!
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