"The Fool's Illusion" Book Cover is Completed!

Sorry about being so bad about posting for the last couple of months. It's been a really busy time doing the one man show with The Fool's Illusion and therefore with the designing and formatting of the book. But the bulk of the these two aspects is done. I just finished the entire book cover--front, back and spine--this evening. You can see it below. (I wasn't able to make it much bigger without it taking up the entire screen, but you can at least see the overall design, title and byline if not the back cover and spine text). I just need to transfer it to PDF format and upload it to Create Space for it to be reviewed and as long as it and the interior (the inside material of the book) get good results and approval and therefore nothing has to be corrected, it will be ready to launch for publication. So keep your eyes open both here and at the book's Facebook page for the release. More than likely any news of its release will reach the FB page first since I frequent there more than I do here (as you may have already figured out). And I double emphasise that you keep your eyes open at both sites because there will probably be a free give-away of copies (print, electronic or maybe even both) of the book for a limited time!

I'll leave you with that for now. Please feel free to leave any comments about the cover in the box below or at the FB page.

Until next time . . .

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