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A different idea:

Vote on your favorite cover

Click on each link to see a variation in these Graeme Balchin Half Way Home spreads. Use the comments to tell me which you like the best and why. If you don't like any of them, let me know that as well. The back jacket text was pounded out in Photoshop and isn't final. It's [...:]

A Summary of Half Way Home

Ruby wants to know what the story is about in order to better judge the mood of the covers. Here you go, Ruby:
In the distant future, planets are settled by vat-grown colonists. The expense of sending generations of humans on several-hundred-year journeys is too much, so they instead launch 500 human blastocysts and an automated [...:]

Another tree from Graeme

Graeme Balchin, the Australian artist who painted the tree in the previous post, read a few of your comments and sent along another work of his that feels a bit "darker." I think it address a few of the concerns readers had with the last image and it also, as he points out, gives me [...:]

Here's another idea…

More of a whimsical idea

Another idea

These are very rough mock-ups, just to get an idea of which direction I should head. These very large trees dominate a good portion of the story, hence the bark in this image and the leaf themes in other images found in the forums.

Half Way Home

Today I reached the half-way point of my final edit of Half Way Home. I can't tell you how excited I am about this book. I get fired up every time I read it and I think this story is going to please a ton of readers.
Now, if only I could come up with a [...:]

The future of books?

Just goes to show: If it's done well, any medium can be as enchanting as any other.

Unveiling of the 2nd Edition

The Super-Duper Second Edition of "Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue" showed up today. I did a live unveiling, but it was on very short notice. For those of you who missed it … fret not. I recorded it.