Busting Writing Rules Cover

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Here’s the cover from Busting Writing Rules: 12 Rules That Hurt Writers.  Chapters of the book are going to appear on the blog starting the first week in August.  These are all the topics:

Give Yourself Permission to Write Crap
You Must Outline
Make the Character Suffer
Write What You Know
Keep Description to a Minimum
Write Straight Through
Best Sellers Don’t Know What They’re Doing
Only Use Said for Dialogue Tags
Show Not Tell
Avoid Passive Voice
No Dream Sequences
No Adverbs

Now I get to do the behind the scenes for the cover.

Covers for writing books are hard.

It’s just a hard topic to illustrate.  What represents writing?

Pencil, fountain pen, quill
Typewriter (usually an old Royal), typewriter keys, computer
Light bulb, or some other sign of creativity

For me, just a “Meh.”

But cats, books, and writing are linked together.  Cats sitting on books…usually the one you want to read…cats sitting on keyboards when you want to write…

Plus, cats are rule breakers anyway.

So I went looking for cats and books.  Wasn’t generally what I was looking for.  Too busy, not quite right.

Maybe…cats and glasses?

And I found this image right away.  All the colors are sampled from the cat’s fur.