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So, bowing to the professional knowledge of friends, we are having a cover change. The last one--this is my promotional budget. Instead of PR, we get new covers. Mitch Bentley, Atomic Fly Studios, and I would like to introduce you to the ebook cover for Night Calls. Mitch has Life, Interrupted this week, but will soon be back on the wraparound cover for the print edition of Night Calls (yes, she's holding a lantern, hence the light!) and the ebook cover for Kindred Rites. I hope you like it. The art will stay--Mitch may mess with the fonts more as he finalizes the wraparound.

This is the stab to make Alfreda very share-able. I'll be finishing up #3 (if no one else gets ill!) learning MS Office 2010 and also POD this coming month. If this doesn't work? Mundane job, no matter how mundane, and contemporary fantasy...among other things.

Have picked up the Crimson template from Book Design Templates--I'll be using that for Kindred Rites and Alfreda book three. Leah Cutter did the PDF for Night Calls. I will experiment with the finalized WORD document from Book View Cafe. Book Design Templates has a free ebook to help you use their templates, so that will figure into my reading this weekend!

Can Book View Cafe folk drop their Word docs into Book Design Templates with a minimum of fuss? If so, I suspect we will choose a template for a house style and run with it! The great experiment will begin this month, slowed only if I get a mundane job quickly.

New Cover! )
alfreda89: 3 foot concrete Medieval style gargoyle with author's hand resting on its head. (Mascot)
Thanks to the talented [livejournal.com profile] lrcutter we have done a "final for a while" cover branding and tweaking to the Nuala covers. Here are the results. Can you see the differences? Hope you like them.

Next--figuring out the right cover art for the Alfreda ebooks and POD (or POD if I can master the technique.)

CatKimbriel_FiresOfNuala133x200

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Nuala Covers 2013
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Did you catch the clever trailer that was done for BLAMELESS?
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Writer/Songwriter Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff's blog post over at Book View Cafe today is the first in a series about cover art. As it happens, the girl who showed up on one of her covers looks like she could be Allie, except her hair should be longer. (Allie actually does get to wear dresses like these, in book three.)

http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/2011/06/15/there%e2%80%99s-a-bimbo-on-the-cover-of-my-book-verse-1/

But where is Maya's heroine -- and whose pseudo-Indian princess is on the cover of Kindred Rites?
alfreda89: 3 foot concrete Medieval style gargoyle with author's hand resting on its head. (Default)
Is it my imagination, or on the cover of MOUSE AND DRAGON, does Daav look a bit like the late Robert Lynn Asprin?
alfreda89: 3 foot concrete Medieval style gargoyle with author's hand resting on its head. (Default)
Just yesterday I was wishing I'd had $600 to buy the original cover to FIRES OF NUALA, my least favorite title change, but the best impression of the world I've ever seen done. But $600 was a lot then, and I didn't know about buying original artwork, hauling it around to signings and deducting it as promo. So some collector has the original. But now you can apparently get a lot of Don Dixon's works as Giclee prints. They sell 18x24 and 24x36 inch prints, the larger for half what the original would have cost me.

http://cosmographica.com/gallery/prints_main.html

Wish I'd had a better head for numbers back then.

Anyone ever purchased a Giclee print? How's the quality?

Amusingly, the third Nuala cover is not on the site. It was badly done. I don't know if the editors or art department asked for too-fast changes, but I thought of it as the hunchback cover. I remember showing it to artist David Lee Anderson, who diplomatically said: "The rocks on the back cover are great!" I agreed, and said I only wished the front was good enough to make someone flip the thing and read the back cover.

We're talking that if I had been the art editor under deadline, I would have either flopped the cover and put the cliff on the front, or taken the back cover of the first book and made it the third cover. Yup -- that bad. Even good artists have bad days....

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