Finally, I’ve received the final product of the cover art for my short-read book, "The Trespassers"! So, I have a cover reveal for you today! However, this is only the illustration, not the full cover. I have not added the title or author’s name yet. I’ll be doing that during the week. I'm trying to get this book out as soon as possible and so I didn’t add the text to the cover for today’s reveal. If several of you would prefer the full cover reveal with the text included, then let me know in the comments box below and I’ll try to provide that at my Facebook and Instagram pages. For now, here's the completed illustration for "The Trespassers" book cover along with the new synopsis (blurb) that I shared with you last week:
“The Trespassers"
After crash-landing on a desert planet, astronaut and forensic anthropologist Gav Torres becomes separated from the rest of his expedition. He soon enough reunites with everybody except one person: his fiancé, Shelley Wu. Gav’s persistence to find Shelley will soon reveal to him the alien terror from beyond death that may be responsible for her disappearance, the previous expeditions’ disappearances and the likely annihilation of himself and the rest of the current expedition.
I think the artist who I hired did a much better job on this revised and final version than she did when she delivered the illustration to me the first time. This time she made the picture resemble more of the sketch that I provided for her which you can see on my July 3rd post. I wish I could show you the first version so you can see the comparison, but I wasn’t able to download it.
She also made the final version darker in tone the way I wanted it and so it conveys more the horror element. I just wish that she was able to make the two astronauts look like they were flying somewhat parallel to the ground below and away from the observer towards the monster. Right here, they look too upright, almost as if they were on the ground walking. However, I wasn't going to send it through another revision. I want to get this book out way before the summer is done and we're already about halfway through the season. After "The Trespassers" releases, I need to return my focus to working on my book of short stories, "Bad Apps".
So, the plan is to release "The Trespassers" next Monday, August 5th. That's one week from today. If for some inevitable reason it doesn’t release then, I’ll let you know. but I really am aiming for next Monday.
Would you like to see a full cover reveal with title and author name before next Monday's release of "The Trespassers"? What do you think of the book’s cover illustration?
Until next time . . .
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