Sarah Richards's Blog: The Chocolate Moose - Posts Tagged "cover"

Today has been a great day!

James Blunt, Josh Groban and The Canadian Tenors are playing off my computer. A never empty coffee cup is sitting next to freshly sharpened pencils and a new eraser.

The cover for the second book of the Woodmere Trilogy has begun!

Go to http://woodmeretrilogy.blogspot.com to see the primarily sketches I am preforming for Taken in the Woods.

The progress of the cover production will be documented there. Be sure to check back for more sneak peeks!

Up until today I have been focusing on Autumn.
Now it is time to begin the background.

Like many growing up, I watched Disney movies. Robin Hood, 101 Dalmatians and Beauty & the Beast are still my favorites. What I remember the most though was watching the extras for Sleeping Beauty. The way the backgrounds were drawn, painted and filmed fascinated me.

I was thinking of this as I started the background for the cover of Taken in the Woods.



This sketch is the preliminarily drawing for the first stage of the background. (Emphasis on preliminarily!)

I envision a few layers of background. This layer will most likely be the foreground. (Still technically a part of the background.) Autumn will obviously be the primary focus, and then there will be the next stage as the actual background.

What secret is Craig hiding?
Will Autumn finally confide her's?

Everyone has a Secret
in Left on the Edge, but
the Past becomes the Present
in Taken in the Woods.

Here is the first glimpse of the official cover and summary for the second book in the Woodmere Trilogy, Taken in the Woods.

Returning to Woodmere after Becca’s high school graduation in California, Autumn discovers restoring friendships is more difficult than making them. In the small Minnesota town, where knowing everything is everyone’s business, a surprisingly small amount of truth is actually known. When the past becomes the present, more than one life is in danger.

Will Autumn gain Craig and Kenzie’s trust in time, or will she be Taken in the Woods?

Taken in the Woods will be release as a paperback and an eBook in October 2013!

Let the cover designing begin!
The illustrations of Autumn and the cabin are finished.
The background illustration for 'Drowned by Fear' took many more hours than I had thought when I drew the ghost sketch.
Here is a look at the two finalized illustrations while I begin work on the cover design: