Mary Sisson's Blog, page 58

Cover art done!

Here's the full cover art (minus the text, of course):

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Did some more work on the cover--the back is almost done, but my eyes just couldn't take any more, so I had to stop.

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I'm still working on the cover, but here's what the front/e-book cover will look like, minus the title and author's name (plus I need to clean up the head a bit).

So, it's supposed to remind you of the game Snake. It's a dragon (a bad dragon), and it's either going to be eating the book title or it's going to be breathing flames and the title will appear on the flames. Actually, looking at it here, the latter idea is just too complicated to work in that space. So, the dragon will be eating the title--sounds good.

*Attempts to uncross eyes, fails*

I've been plugging away on the cover--the design is supposed to resemble an old video game, and it turns out that actually putting it together is a whole lot like playing that game, which I thought I'd kicked years ago. I may rally and rough something out to put up today, or I may not.

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More work on the YA cover today--there's still a lot to be done, but I'm really liking the concept....

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Kind of a busy day, but I was able to create some of the pieces I'm going to need for the YA cover.

It's still neat when this happens

So, yeah, things got busy again--we have to get everyone's ducks in a row before April 15, which can be tricky when you take into consideration the fact that some people weren't entirely aware they had ducks....

But I woke up this morning with a cover for the young-adult fantasy novel just completely there in my head. It's something that I think will be visually interesting, it's something I can do myself (i.e. it requires no actual drawing ability), and it would reflect certain plot points in the book. What I don't know (and I guess I won't know until I use it) is if it will trigger some sort of expectation that isn't fulfilled by the books itself. ("I was sadly disappointed by the complete absence of bananas in this book!")

So what is it this time?

Not another piano. Just the realization that, instead of making something a side project, it would be better to focus on it and push it through. It's almost done, so I should (FINGERS CROSSED) get back to writing in a day or two.

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Obviously the Universe responded to my having time to write again by dropping a piano on my head (Dear Universe: Quit reading my blog!), but I seem to have things under semi-control again, so today I edited what I'd written before.

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1,390 words on the fantasy novel! Whoo!