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Indebted, it's coming closer

3/13/2012

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WE ARE STILL SET FOR AN END OF MARCH RELEASE OF INDEBTED.  So just like this amazing song by KINGS OF LEON:  IT'S COMING CLOSER:
·      Here's the latest news:  I submitted corrections to Indebted's PDF (interior format) today.  That means that within five business days I should get another PDF proof of the book.  Once I approve that one, the publisher will print the first copy of Indebted and send it to me in the mail for final approval.

·      The cover is sort of a sore subject with me right now.  I couldn't seem to explain my vision for the cover to the designer.  I take full responsibility because I'm a writer and I should be able to describe in words what I want, but it just never came across to them based on what I've been getting for mock-ups.  It came to a point in the process that I was afraid that the cover was looking "self-pub."  Don't get me wrong; I am self-pub.  I will own that all day and into the next; I just don't want you to be able to point to my cover and say, "Ahhhh, self-pub."  I pay for it to be done professionally, so it should look professional.  I know that my covers are not the norm anyway.  I am aware of the genre for which I write.  I'm supposed to have some smoking-hot guy on the cover—or a very beautiful girl in an elaborate ball gown walking though a field or conversely draped over a chair—or a kick-ass, tatted vixen in a leather outfit who is ready to smack the taste out of your mouth.  Sex sells.  Beauty is everything.  I get it.  But, I don't know...done and done, right?  If I do it too, then I don't stand out.  Not to say that mine are cutting-edge covers.  I mean a feather is hardly original, especially when it comes to the kind of story I write, but there is still something about it that appeals to me.  It is very, very simple—and simple is difficult for me.  I find simple a challenge.  Simple is appealing in another regard:  because size does matter.  Sometime simple comes across better when the image is small, like in an eBook ad.  I am primarily an eBook author (for now, anyway).  If the cover is complicated, it doesn't seem to come across as well.  I am also hoping for a more universal appeal.  Maybe it will appeal to others outside of the genre as well—more of a crossover book.  (Marketing executives are clutching their sides right now from laughing so hard at me.)  Anyway, I scrapped the cover they were working on.  I called a halt to it yesterday.  I'm going with the alternate mock-up from Intuition.  I remember really liking it when I had to choose between the two last time.  I don't get that feeling now, but I think it's because I'm really disappointed that I couldn't explain myself well rather than it not being amazing.  (Sorry, bored yet?)  As soon as I get the jpeg of the cover, I'll post it so you can see it. 

·      I'm NOT going to dwell on the cover.  I'M GETTING SUPER EXCITED FOR INDEBTED!  I JUST READ THE LAST CHAPTER!  I WANT TO TELL YOU RIGHT NOW WHAT HAPPENS, BUT I CAN'T!  UGH!  I'M DYING!  ONLY A COUPLE MORE WEEKS AND YOU CAN READ IT FOR YOURSELVES!  IT'S COMING CLOSER!  

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