I'm at the stage where I simply want to get started, have all these ideas which might fizzle into nothing unless I put them down and develop them, marry them to the right character, interject it into a conversation.
In the meantime, I am designing a cover for my novel. The original BookBlurb Friday cover featured a bar of chocolate (which I simply ignored at the time), and stencil font writing, which I thought reflected what might be seen in the hold of a ship. However, I got side-tracked by a photo of sand ripples on Warebeth beach near Stromness in Orkney, and played around with that.
It might not be the final one - how commercial 'grab-off-the-shelf' is it for a start? ('not very' I fear) - but beats chewing my fingernails.
And what a fascinating subject is bookjackets anyway - how do they KNOW what will appeal to me?
I love your book jacket design because it is different. It would call my name from the shelf for sure. penny
ReplyDeleteThanks Penny - it alarms me somewhat when I hear that some publishers insist on their own choice of cover. (NOT that I'm likely to get a publisher interested but ...)
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