Another day, another cover...

...and how many writing teams can say such a thing? This, friends, is the second almost-cover for our upcoming novel, Aly's Luck. If you take a look at the last Blog-O-Rama post, you'll see some striking differences between the first almost-cover and this one.
 
The pink-haired cover model has lost her tattoo (but still has her bustier, in keeping with the '50s sci fi/adventure theme), the title lettering has been enlarged and given a construction-site feel, and there's a raggedy city back drop, all in gray and intriguingly etched over with various symbols.
 
Can we tell you something? We love the city back drop, all etched over and painted in gray. The only place it falls down a little? There's nothing like it in our story.
 
The brain trust at Proxima Books realized this, too. They tossed this second cover on the scrap heap, telling their graphics team to start over. To heck with the expense, seems to be their attitude, and we're with 'em, as long as we're not the ones expensing it. A third and final image was created and, on October 1st, our novel goes live and we'll show you it's actual cover. So wander on back, will you?
 
'Expensing' is, too, a real word, 'cause us writers know some real words regular people don't get to see. It's in our special Writers Dictionary and you can't buy one, so don't even try. Seriously, there's no reason to get all fongoogly about it.