Mary Sisson's Blog, page 10

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Not a great day for writing for a variety of reasons, but I was able to do some editing, plus I cobbled together a (very) rough draft of the new cover for the second book. Whoo!

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2,300 words, whoo!

I’ve been thinking about the Book 2 cover, and I think I am going to redo it (not right now, but later on). I have an idea that I think will work, and I think as a rule with covers that you have to prioritize communicating with the reader over other factors.

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Finished the cover for book three! Whoo!

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Got a lot done on the third cover—I decided to go ahead and do it, but after that I’ll get back to writing.

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I finished the cover for the second book today—it’s a bit of a quandary for me because I wound up with a cover that I think is very true to the couple, but it’s not a clinch. The clinch is actually kind of important in the romance genre, because it helps convey to readers the heat level of the story—a couple getting handsy/naked on the cover means that they’re doing that inside as well.

This series is fairly adult, so I feel a bit odd about this cover—the couple is being a bit weird, but nothing romantic or explicitly sexual. In a way, it works, because they are an odd couple (quite a bit stranger than the other couples in the series). I think readers will be OK as long as the rest of the book covers and the descriptions take a more-traditional approach.

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I got some work done on the cover for the second book—the artwork of the woman is more or less done, I think. Hopefully I’ll be able to finish it tomorrow, and then I think I’ll just get back to writing.

Here's one

I more or less (you know, at this point) finished the cover for the first romance book, so here it is:

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Whew! Well, I didn’t get much sleep last night, so I wasn’t expecting to be very productive today, and indeed other than a little editing, I wasn’t. But then I decided I should start trying to figure out the covers, and I hit on a cover design for the series that I really like. We’ll see how things go with the actual artwork, but I like the basic template a lot. I seen other people recommend this, but I do think that if you’re going for a specific feel for a cover, color-picking from photographs or artwork that are of the place or the period is really helpful.

Also, I used new GIMP for the first time today—it looks different from old GIMP, but it basically operates the same, so it was a pretty quick learning curve.

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1,700 words, wooo!

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2,000 words! Whoo!