{"id":16753,"date":"2023-02-24T19:17:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T02:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=16753"},"modified":"2023-02-24T19:17:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T02:17:52","slug":"new-star-wanderers-cover-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/new-star-wanderers-cover-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"New Star Wanderers cover reveal!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Behold!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is officially the new ebook cover for Star Wanderers.<\/em> I’ve uploaded it to all platforms, though I haven’t updated the epub files yet. I’ll also update the paperbacks as soon as I have a chance, though that may take a while, especially with the new baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This image was AI generated using Stable Diffusion. It went through a lot<\/em> of iterations, and can probably use some improvement, but this is the best I can do with the skills I currently have. Maybe a couple of years from now, after I’ve mastered the technology, I’ll make a new cover for this title. But I think this one is good enough to keep for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just for fun, here are some of the old covers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The original novel cover, which this latest one has replaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second omnibus cover, from the novella series. The cover itself is by Libbie Grant, though the planet itself is a screenshot I took from Celestia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The art from the complete series omnibus, which replaced the first two omnibuses and was the immediate precursor to the novelization itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The original cover for the first omnibus. The art is by Ina Wong, who also did the current cover art for The Sword Keeper.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the original art for the second omnibus, by Derek Murphy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is my personal favorite from the art by Libbie Grant. She did all eight novellas and both ominbus editions in this style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the second cover for the original novelette. Derek saw my crappy self-made cover and offered to make me this one for free, so that he could showcase both of them in a before-and-after post on his blog. It worked out really well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And this is the original ebook cover art for the first novelette that started it all. I had just launched Desert Stars,<\/em> after draining my bank account to publish it since the kickstarter had failed (This was back in 2011, and I had no idea how to run a kickstarter\u2014or how to profitably publish a book, for that matter). Since I didn’t want to spend another $900 to publish a full-length novel to the sound of crickets, I decided to turn my current WIP into a novella series, put them all out on a shoestring budget, and reinvest whatever money they earned into better editing and cover art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The image is taken from NASA and is totally in the public domain, and I think the font is too, or at least it’s freeware of some kind. I put it together over the summer, when I was home from teaching English overseas in the Republic of Georgia. For this one, I think I used my desktop, but most of the other ones in this style were done on my tiny ASUS netbook with a screen the size of a postcard, in an old farmhouse in a tiny Georgian village at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains, which had no heating aside from the woodburning stove downstairs. The power would also frequently go out for hours at a time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote a bunch of the original novellas out there, in that tiny little Georgian village. And now, they’re all combined into one novel, which I’m turning into a trilogy right now! Just need to finish revising the second book, hopefully before that new baby comes. I should probably stop procrastinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Behold! This is officially the new ebook cover for Star Wanderers. I’ve uploaded it to all platforms, though I haven’t updated the epub files yet. I’ll also update the paperbacks as soon as I have a chance, though that may take a while, especially with the new baby. This image was AI generated using Stable… Continue reading New Star Wanderers cover reveal!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1541,857],"tags":[1665,913,903,1672,705,1673,529,916],"class_list":["post-16753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outworld-trilogy","category-sw","tag-ai-art","tag-cover-art","tag-cover-reveals","tag-derek-murphy","tag-georgia","tag-ina-wong","tag-indie-publishing","tag-libbie-hawker","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-4md","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16754,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753\/revisions\/16754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}