{"id":6970,"date":"2012-01-28T14:40:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T19:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=6970"},"modified":"2012-01-28T17:29:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T22:29:39","slug":"quick-update-and-star-wanderers-cover-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/quick-update-and-star-wanderers-cover-previews\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick update and Star Wanderers cover previews"},"content":{"rendered":"

First off, I’m happy to say that Stars of Blood and Glory<\/strong>\u00a0is coming along quite nicely. \u00a0I’m currently finishing up with the last couple of chapters, and should have the first draft done by the middle of next week. \u00a0Hopefully by then I’ll know if and when I’m starting my TEFL job overseas, but I’m sure I’ll have it finished before then.<\/p>\n

This first draft is pretty rough, so I’m sure it’ll be a while before it’s up and ready for you to read. \u00a0For some reason, this draft is extremely short–I doubt it’ll be much longer than 80,000 words. \u00a0I don’t know if that means my writing has gotten tighter since Bringing Stella Home<\/strong>, or if I’ve unintentionally left too much out. \u00a0I’ll probably let it simmer for a few months, do a quick revision, and send it out to some first readers, just like I’ve done for Heart of the Nebula<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I’m getting really excited to pick up work again on\u00a0Star Wanderers<\/strong>. I’ve been workshopping part II in Kindal’s<\/a> writing group, just to get some reactions. \u00a0I’ll probably revise that part while I’m writing parts III and IV, getting it ready for publication after I hear back from Writers of the Future according to the serial model I outlined previously<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m so excited, in fact, that I went ahead and made some mock-ups for the cover art!<\/p>\n

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Pretty cool, huh? \u00a0These make me sooo happy. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I’m not quite sure if this is the right design, though. \u00a0Star Wanderers<\/strong>\u00a0is very much a science fiction romance, and while these covers definitely scream “science fiction!” they don’t really seem to say “romance!”<\/p>\n

My original idea was to use these as backgrounds and commission an artist to do some character portraits from the waist up, using one portrait each for the foreground. \u00a0But then again, that might make the covers a bit too complicated. \u00a0I can always redo the first one to get rid of the planet, keeping the galaxy–the other ones probably wouldn’t be so bad with a character in the middle. \u00a0But then again…<\/p>\n

I don’t know. \u00a0What do you guys think? \u00a0If you saw one of these covers while browsing for ebooks, what kind of impression would it give you, and would you be interested in checking it out?<\/p>\n

(By the way, I made the covers with Celestia<\/a>. \u00a0Coolest. \u00a0Space simulation. \u00a0Ever<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

EDIT:<\/strong>\u00a0I decided to redo the first cover; the planet wasn’t quite doing it for me. \u00a0I’m not sure if that means I should redo the cover for the third part, since that one is a heck of a lot more colorful than the others…hmm. \u00a0We’ll have to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First off, I’m happy to say that Stars of Blood and Glory\u00a0is coming along quite nicely. \u00a0I’m currently finishing up with the last couple of chapters, and should have the first draft done by the middle of next week. \u00a0Hopefully by then I’ll know if and when I’m starting my TEFL job overseas, but I’m… Continue reading Quick update and Star Wanderers cover previews<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,460,857,569],"tags":[345,671,122,46,529,128,199,155,421,495],"class_list":["post-6970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bsh","category-hn","category-sw","category-sbg","tag-artwork","tag-ebook-covers","tag-friends","tag-goals-and-plans","tag-indie-publishing","tag-jakeson","tag-questions","tag-rough-drafts","tag-science-fiction-romance","tag-teaching-english-abroad","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1Oq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970","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=6970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6976,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions\/6976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}