The Accidental Cover

Huh. I appear to have accidentally made myself a book cover.

A wall mirror hangs on flowery wallpaper. A silhouette of a muscular man leaning in an uncertain pose is cut out of the fog on the mirror. In the silhouette is a mountain and some rocky buildings and some sky.

Honest, I was trying to get over my extreme tendency to do everything myself. I really and truly intended to hire a professional for this. I still do. But I was playing around with some concept art for the cover and it kept being almost right, so I kept tweaking it, and before you know it… three days of no writing and bam, a book cover. The control freak in me says, “YES! ALL THE EDITING POWER IS MINE!!!!” The part of me that is attempting to learn that getting help from other people frequently makes for a better product is retrenching at editors. Negotiations continue.

Credit to Gianella Castro, Anne Nygard, and Vinicius Amano on Unsplash for the images used.

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