{"id":5109,"date":"2017-09-29T08:26:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=5109"},"modified":"2017-09-28T22:10:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:10:27","slug":"we-got-ya-covered-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/we-got-ya-covered-well\/","title":{"rendered":"We Got Ya Covered (Well&#8230;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar-e1443983880436.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Writing Cave has lately also been a Design Cavern, as we try to get a jump on cover ideas for our next series. It&#8217;s as important not to rush the creative process for a visual product as it is for prose, and you deserve beautiful covers to look at. We won&#8217;t let you down.<\/p>\n<p>Our preliminary brainstorming has given us several intriguing concepts, plus several lightboxes and pinboards full of images. It&#8217;s really, unbelievably easy to burn whole afternoons on image research.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve thrown together a few mockups, nothing too fancy at this stage. Jen has collaged some rough comps in Photoshop, while Kent fills pages with hand-lettered variations of the titles like he&#8217;s daydreaming about marrying them.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest challenge is coming up with unifying imagery for all three books. That&#8217;s not quite the whole problem, though. The three books form one large story, and there are ideas at both a micro and macro level that tie everything together. We easily made a short list of relevant symbols. What we <em>want<\/em> is for each book to have a distinctive main image, and all three of those images to work as a set that exemplifies the theme. (And expresses the appropriate mood, and conveys an accurate impression of the genre, all while looking awesome.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tall order. But we didn&#8217;t let you down last time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4149\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MBD-Cover-Crop-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MBD-Cover-Crop-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MBD-Cover-Crop.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4680\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Tenpenny-Cover-Crop-new-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Tenpenny-Cover-Crop-new-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Tenpenny-Cover-Crop-new.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5056\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Elsewhere-Cover-Crop2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Elsewhere-Cover-Crop2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Elsewhere-Cover-Crop2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Writing Cave has lately also been a Design Cavern, as we try to get a jump on cover ideas for our next series. It&#8217;s as important not to rush the creative process for a visual product as it is for prose, and you deserve beautiful covers to look at. We won&#8217;t let you down. 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