As some of you may know, my first novel is coming out soon! Take a look at the awesome cover designed by Becky Munich:
What a thing of beauty! Becky really hit it out of the park for me.
As I type this blog post, a proof copy is on its way to me. Once I make sure the internal layout is correct and give it one last proofread, Ornamental Women will be available for purchase.
Actually, the proof arrived before I could even get this posted. Check it out, it's a real goddamn book!
The proofread is currently in progress. Maybe this is a gross thing to say, but I'm really enjoying reading my own book. I wrote the kind of book I want to be in the world.
I'm very excited to share this novel with all of you. Set in the world of Krevborna, Ornamental Woman follows three narrative strands that eventually interweave--a depressed grave robber and her automaton companion are on the trail of an absent corpse and a missing book of poems, a black metal bard plots to murder an angel, and a famed monster hunter and his horrible witch lover seek to thwart the rise of a pagan death goddess.
Watch this space for more.
Very decorative and it’s always good to see a lovely young lady boning up on the classics.
ReplyDeleteThe cover is actually pretty indicative of what's in the novel--the skeleton lady is reading a book the main character is after!
DeleteWell I should hope so, you can’t have Ominous Symbolism on the cover featuring a book that doesn’t actually appear in this particular plot!😄
DeleteThe cover is actually a *very* indicative of what's going on in the book!
DeleteLovely presentation.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Becky really nailed it.
DeleteIt's not gross to enjoy reading your own book - you gotta write what you'd want to read. I do that too.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it just feels mercenary to say so in public, but I genuinely enjoyed my read-through of the proof copy. I think it's got a rollicking story and a great cast of very troubled characters.
DeleteNow that I was able to view it in colour: I like the artwork and am impressed by the two different fonts for the title on the front cover and the back of the book. What made you decide on not having a single cool looking title but two of them?
DeleteI'm not sure what you mean by two titles, but all graphic design was the work of my cover artist!
DeleteAnd said cover artist did a banger job. What I mean is that the title "Ornamental Women" looks different on the front cover and and on the back of the book. Which means extra work. It reminds me of a documentary I saw a few weeks ago about localizations of the title fonts of Games Workshop's codices in the 90s (when I played their games), where every letter was an actual individual piece of art and had to be fully redone for every non-English edition (like the Dark Elves Codex ["Dunkelelfen" in German] I still have and have recently passed down to my son. Comparing your cover to my own covers I'm just impressed by the work that went into it, that's all. With my own publishings I have exactly _one_ stylish version of the main title and then paste it wherever I need it.
DeleteYours is, of cource, superior and, dare I say it, more *ornamental*.
Hah, I watched the same video on Games Workshop. But yeah, Becky really killed it with this cover design. I'm so happy with it. I certainly couldn't have made anything like this on my own.
DeleteReally enjoyed this book <3
ReplyDeleteThank you! Not sure if you'll see this, but I'd love to hear about your favorite bits. Feedback is welcome.
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