First off, I'm waiting for my designer to get back to me with the final cover for Bright Spark. What I've posted here are two of the final options. What she generally does is send me a first attempt (which is 85-90% there) and then we tweak colors or a few small elements. This time, she sent me the draft cover with 5 different background colors to choose from.
Some were easy to eliminate. Red was just godawful, and charcoal gray was too close to the blue of the previous book. Another was too light. But the golden brown and spring green... I had to send that one back to her and ask her to do more final work and show it to me with both colors.
I've made my final choice but haven't received it yet. Which of the two do you like better?
Pre-orders for Bright Spark are going well. If you haven't ordered your copy yet, you can do so here.
My brain hasn't pitched any new ideas recently, so I've been getting a lot of writing done on a side project that will be published under a pen name. Not for secrecy purposes, necessarily, but because it's a different genre and the readership will be different enough that cross-pollination might not be helpful. If you're interested, I'll post more about it later, but for now, I'm just getting words down and lining up all my ducks.
The part of this project that's really interesting to me is that I've learned so much over 7 years of publishing that would have been more useful to have learned before certain other things happened. So this is both a writing project and a science experiment, to see if what I've learned in this time is truly effective when planned from the ground up, rather than inserted into an existing career.
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