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The cover of my novel “Darkness” not my best work
Since my last post, much has happened. Mostly devastation and sadness. Mostly concerning my mom. On Thursday July 3, she was transferred from our local hospital, to one two hours away. On Saturday, she ended up needing emergency surgery to remove the offending problem. I won’t go into to much detail, but she is now currently on the ventilator in the Surgical ICU. Two hours away. Its a very sad, very distressing situation, and it doesn’t help in the least that I’m pregnant.
I have frequently wondered if my “horror-moans” are more out of whack than those of other pregnant women. I’ve cried so much in the last ten days that I’m surprised I’m not dehydrated.
Anyway, in light of these events, I decided one evening, coming home from work, that I would say “Screw it” and throw together the files and such necessary to complete the self-publishing process on “Darkness”. I was up until about 4am this morning–or yesterday, whatever–working on cover related things, fixing interior file errors, and uploading documents. I am content to say that the process for both Paperback and Kindle Book formats are complete, and I am simply awaiting confirmation that they have both gone live.
If you happen to have a CreateSpace account, you can already purchase a paperback copy of the book for $8.99. You may be able to find it with this LINK.
Please forgive any errors and typos and hideous covers. I’m not the best proofreader (I also got to lazy to do it all over again) and I’m not a skilled graphic artist. If you decide to purchase it, I hope you at least enjoy the story.
-c
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I actually really like your cover. The only thing I have a problem with is your name being randomly lighter on one side (I get the effect you were going for, I’m just a fan of symmetry). I’d also advise shading the gray of the lantern into the black a little better.
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Thanks for the tips! The cover was, in fact, a rush job. It was about 3-4am when I finally finished. I’d decided that the book had been sitting on my hard drive and “incomplete” for too long. I wanted it self-published and off my to-do. I was dealing with some family stuff at the time, and I felt I needed something in my control and completed. There is SO MUCH I would redo, inside and out, about this book. But, when it comes to my own stuff, if I don’t “put the pen down” so to speak, then it’ll never get done! I’m also not great with photo/image editing, and it was all done by me! I am pretty happy with the CONCEPT of what I was going for with the cover, though! Thanks 🙂
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If you want to improve it you can just download GIMP (it’s free photoshop) and the “smudging” tool will blend it a little better. It’s super easy. Just because it’s already published doesn’t mean that it can’t be improved upon!
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Actually, GIMP is what I use! I used the smudging tool as well! I’m just not the best at it. Possibly at some point I will update.
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Well here, to make you feel better about your smudging skills http://i.imgur.com/kSPsv53.png
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it… it looks like a… hairy eye… Literally the first response that came to mind.
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