Rig it Right & Absolute Darkness covers

Taking a moment to appreciate that both book covers have come in for final approval within one week of each other. That’s pretty cool. Rig it Right is going into line edit now. Absolute Darkness has already been through line edit and has been approved for final print.

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I’m especially proud of the Rig it Right cover.  The bird model was made by SCAD grad Alston Jones. The texture, lighting and rendering was done by a SCAD VSFX senior, who will graduate in Spring, who happens to also be my oldest son: Danny O’Hailey. The tech editor was also a SCAD grad, all hired by Focal. Super proud. I’ll work on the AR images for the book in these next few months. I don’t know the publish date yet – I’m expecting August or October.

The BRW production director sent the final cover for Absolute Darkness today.  I’m excited to see this get published at the end of June and see where it goes.  On the plane to Shanghai last week  I started going over the outline for the prequel/sequel to this and I still like it. So, that is the next one in the writing pipeline: “Alexander”.  Thanks to a note from my husband (who read the first 60 pages last night) I have a better twist to the twist I already had for the storyline. Mwahahaha. [image error]

Writing gives my mind something to chew on and keeps me grounded. The nice thing I get with this publisher is being part of the group of authors that are publishing with Black Rose Writing.

They are a good group that shares tips and ideas in our online forum.  I enjoy learning from them, since this process is completely new to me.

I feel like an actual writer this year, but have so much more to learn.   Good side gig.

Be well and happy kinda-Spring. – tina