Now I have to go through all of the COVENANTS chapbook again, this time to proofread. And do it again tomorrow. Then add the pictures. Then proofread one more time. Then I do the cover, publish the sucker, and find the last typos that will have taken the opportunity to pop up, once they think I’m not looking. Huzzah!
This might be all done by the weekend. Double huzzah!
I don’t want to show them off quite yet, but I took a bit from one of the preliminary sketches. This will probably be on the cover of the COVENANTS chapbook. Well, the full version of it, once it’s drawn.
I don’t want to show any of them because the artist’s still working, but I’m torn. They’re all good so far, but I can’t decide which one of two I like for the cover of COVENANTS. The best one of the four might be a little too busy for a cover, but I like it personally just a bit more than the second-best one. Fortunately, I have some time to think it over.
Moe Lane
PS: In other news, the entire house has what is thankfully not Covid, in varying degrees (I’m not even sure if I really have it, or whether I’m being psychosomatic, out of sympathy). Fortunately, cold medicine seems to be shifting it for the worst sufferers…
I’ve gotten an artist for it – Crynge, the same person who illustrated DUTIES – and I’m going through the manuscript now to make sure it’s good enough for her to come up with appropriate art. Since I’m doing that already, I decided to just power through the formatting and get it out to any beta readers. More efficient that way, right?
So: I figure I’ll have the first passthrough on COVENANTS done by Sunday. If you’re interested in doing a beta read after that, let me know. This one has longer stories in it, so keep that in mind.
#commissionearned
Current title: COVENANTS. Same number of stories, but higher wordcount (about fifty four thousand words). All more or less in the horror genre, including a story set in the same universe as GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND. I expect that I can work on it when I am sick and tired of staring at the novel.
At some point I should consider collecting all of these chapbooks and releasing them in omnibus form. Although it vaguely feels like cheating, when I do it that way…
