Cover Me!

If all goes according to plan, we will have another novel in the hands of our adoring public by the end of this year. Science Novel is the working title for this, the first book in the working titled Science Trilogy. Both do have actual names, and we’ll be excited to reveal them soon. Watch this space!

In preparation for upcoming edits, we recently spent a few evenings (and one rainy weekend) reading through the manuscript in its current form. Diving deep into this story world inspired Kent. He cracked his knuckles flamboyantly, like Bugs Bunny at the piano, and fired up his various Adobe art programs. After the requisite swearing and incredulous frustration about where they could have possibly hidden the good tools this time, he’s spent many an hour working up mock covers.

There are several different directions we’ve discussed for the cover art and it’s finally time to narrow it down and make a decision. The problem is that we like so many of them and we can only have one. Well, since it’s a trilogy we can actually have three, but they all have to coordinate and cohere, so we have to pick a single direction.

We think we’ve done that. It’s up to Kent to whip up a trio of “proof of concept” covers. At that point we’ll either get all swoony, which means we’re on the right track, or we’ll both go “hmm” which means we need to start over.

And if we don’t agree? One word: thumb-wrestling.