Dean Hamilton's Blog, page 12
November 6, 2014
The Jesuit Letter Cover Reveal
Well, here it is. Let me know what you think!
October 2, 2014
Jesuit Letter Cover Drafts
Everything happens at once.
No sooner do I receive the edited version of The Jesuit Letter back (laced and scarified with editor's cuts, slashes & corrections), then my designer drops the new cover concept drafts into my hands.
I was expecting maybe 3 to 5 concepts, and she came back with 15! Admittedly a number of these are all variations on a specific concept but still, it was a cornucopia of concepts.
In the interest of aiding my decision, I thought I would throw these up on the Int...
No sooner do I receive the edited version of The Jesuit Letter back (laced and scarified with editor's cuts, slashes & corrections), then my designer drops the new cover concept drafts into my hands.
I was expecting maybe 3 to 5 concepts, and she came back with 15! Admittedly a number of these are all variations on a specific concept but still, it was a cornucopia of concepts.
In the interest of aiding my decision, I thought I would throw these up on the Int...
September 19, 2014
Yahrrr! Avast!
It's Friday, and as a bonus it's #TalkLikeAPirateDay, so check out Lindsay Sterling's "Master of Tides" to celebrate!
August 26, 2014
For the Night is Dark, and Full of Stormy....
The timeless, superlative prose that is the winner of the annual Bulwer-Lytton competition has been released!
"It was a dark and stormy night..."
Penned by Victorian novelist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, the phrase has now become the watchword for florid, over-wrought writing and is doomed to be leveraged in perpetuity as an example for future generations.
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is, of course, the annual literary challenge aimed at composing the opening sentence to the "worst of...
