So I got bored...
...and played around with photoshop for a bit. Pretending that it's all edited I made a cover. It's not and I won't have a say in the cover anyway but pretending is nice.
The result is this:
The result is this:
The self publishing experiment.
So I'm going to do something a little bit mad. You see, I'm very curious about self-publishing and ebooks. I read mostly ebooks. Don't get me wrong, I still love me the feel of glued dead-tree in my hands. Nothing smells as good as a room full of books. Ebooks are quick and easy and I devour them whole without having to worry about conserving them until I'll be able to get to the bookshop or library next. I also want to test my writing. I want to take the plunge and see how people react. So I'm going to either commission an artist or buy some stock photos for a cover, get someone else to take a look at it and release a short story at the end of the month. I have no idea how this is going to go. None. But I am going to track it and reveal how it's going here every month. I have a short story lined up. The one I have chosen has potential for a series if it goes well but it stands alone well enough. Hopefully it won't all blow up in my face.
What is it about, chiza?
ReplyDeleteThis is how I put it in Nano: Miriam Colesire is a loudmouth, angry girl who is trying to get home after being dragged into a land of monsters by her own reflection. Invisible to hungry demons unless they can hear her, Miriam has to learn how to fight, hide, take control and make her way across a strange, moving landscape to the only person who can get her home-the Queen, who all the monsters fear and who may kill Miriam on a whim. All without opening her mouth.
DeleteBut this is before editing. It might turn into something about a cat eating moths before I'm done. *Shrug* :)
The stealth mechanic, does it only dissipate when she speaks or does she have to silence herself completely in order to avoid detection?
Deleteif she does get revealed is it to all or only to those that perceived her and can she regain stealth if she loses line of sight or something of that nature?
I like to ponder about the little details of a story's universe its fine if you don't want to answer any of these questions.
No, I'll answer no problem. I'm glad your interested. Sorry about not doing so earlier-present shopping has taken over my life. It comes undone when someone hears a noise made by her vocal chords. So footsteps won't reveal her but a cough, moan, grunt or sound of pain will reveal her to anyone in earshot. Also once it's gone, it's gone forever. That's one of the main plot points. :)
DeleteSounds and looks like an interesting story. How's it going? :-)
ReplyDeleteI was editing until my comp died and took with it the last three chapters. Thanks be for USBS! How's editing going with doorways?
DeleteWORD-O-KAUTION, frilly-girly: I gnawed the psychology sublime, as infinitely plumbed did I the imperial chasm, surrounded by plethora of evidence, this stranger and a pilgrim, standing below the gulf between our subsequent elevation-O-dynamism; I eventually essentially re-told the indescribable paradox (ten-thousand-times better than the movie Avatar, realizing my words don‘t give anything justice).
ReplyDeleteSeventh-Heaven was beyond belief:
‘Summum bonum’
(Latin: supreme good from which all others are derived).
Gotta wanna see more of these poignant culprits!!!
I looked up, exhorting the pragmatism;
I looked down, the profound stanza of Heaven,
I could basically sense after awhile…
Efficacious… emphasize… exaggerate…
totally blown-away at how much the Trinity loves me.
I love you, two.