The Emerald Serpent
I'm really excited by how close this story is getting to launch day. It started life as a NaNoWriMo project in 2014 and went to my beta readers in July. Now I am working with a cover designer to come up with a cover which captures the spirit of the book and which will work as a thumbnail for digital publication and whole cover for when The Emerald Serpent becomes a physical book.
The Emerald Serpent is the first book where I looked around in existing mythology for inspiration and revisited the Irish Mythological cycle of the Tuatha De Danaan. I didn't end up using any of it!
But, it did give me the idea of different planes of existence and my love of northern Scotland gave me the setting, the Caledonian Forest, an extremely ancient landscape, remnants of which still exist.
How then to capture these things on a book cover? The Eadar are white-skinned, black-haired and emerald-eyed, so this had to be there somewhere. At this stage I have the eyes. It is a an odd and wonderful thing to see something that's lived in my head appear as an image on the computer screen.
Thanks so much to my wonderful designer who I'm so enjoying working with.
The Emerald Serpent is the first book where I looked around in existing mythology for inspiration and revisited the Irish Mythological cycle of the Tuatha De Danaan. I didn't end up using any of it!
But, it did give me the idea of different planes of existence and my love of northern Scotland gave me the setting, the Caledonian Forest, an extremely ancient landscape, remnants of which still exist.
How then to capture these things on a book cover? The Eadar are white-skinned, black-haired and emerald-eyed, so this had to be there somewhere. At this stage I have the eyes. It is a an odd and wonderful thing to see something that's lived in my head appear as an image on the computer screen.
Thanks so much to my wonderful designer who I'm so enjoying working with.
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