Can’t stop, won’t stop making cover art
Canva.com and Unsplash are miracles of the modern age. Plus, frankly, really fun to play with. Maybe a little addictive?
Here are some almost-final drafts of covers I’ve designed for the books I’m releasing and re-releasing over the next few months (the Muse has inspired me to get publishing again with that expensive auto repair):
Details are still to be changed–Well-Dressed Man was fun but I don’t think the cover really conveys the eroticism of this hooking-up-with-your-crush-at-a-Halloween-party story. The Season has already been changed once after I proofread it and realized, wow, there’s a lot of masks in these stories–from back when masks meant mystery and sensuality rather than trying to curb the stop of a deadly virus. Some of the subtitles could be made more visible or maybe aren’t necessary on the covers at all. Always more things to play around with. Still, what fun!
I’ll be linking directly to the Unsplash photographers as part of the copyright page of each book.
Not all the cover art is from Unsplash–If You Were My Lover features a closeup of Gustav Courbet’s Le Sommeil from Wikipedia, Tender Things uses the art I commissioned for “A Tender Thing”s original appearance in Nerve magazine, and my submissive’s story collection uses a photo I took that really captures the spirit of those stories, and their author. ;D
I have a regular, moderately ambitious release cycle for the next few months, from October 2021 to March 2022. The following are already up for pre-order:
The Season: Erotic Halloween Stories
Tender Things: Stories about Dominant Women
If You Were My Lover: Stories for Lovers of Literary Erotica
(Soft, Sharp, and Tender will be the omnibus edition of these three, and will come in paperback too.)
And Teleny is up on Amazon (it’s also available as a free download on my blog, where it’s coverless, and on Gumroad). Paperbacks with the new cover can be pre-ordered through my Gumroad store, with the discount code off-amazon to save you 10%.
Right now some of the Amazon reviews of Teleny are for a different version, citing typos I know my formatted edition doesn’t have, but I’m not sure how to repair that… Dear reader, if you find typos in my Teleny, can you send me a message so I can correct them? And if you don’t find typos, please consider leaving a review to that effect, letting other readers know this edition is good.