{"id":9872,"date":"2015-06-08T11:25:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T17:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=9872"},"modified":"2015-06-08T11:25:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T17:25:46","slug":"playing-with-cover-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/playing-with-cover-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with cover art"},"content":{"rendered":"

So last week, I was dinking around with some images, making a cover mock-up for a Star Wanderers<\/strong> short story that’s currently on submission to Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show<\/a>. This is what I came up with:<\/p>\n

\"Starchild<\/a>The model is Devon Jade, photographed by Aaron Tyree on Deviantart<\/a> (CC BY 2.5<\/a>). The background image is variable star RS Puppis<\/a>, photographed by NASA (public domain).<\/p>\n

The story itself is set in the same universe as Star Wanderers,<\/strong> around the same timeline. It’s very short, only 15 pages, and follows the coming of age and loss of innocence of a girl on an isolated space station in the Far Outworlds. It’s on submission to the major SF&F markets right now, but in a few months I anticipate that it will be available to self-publish. I think I blogged about it<\/a> when I wrote the story last year.<\/p>\n

So far, I’ve sent it out to Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, F&SF, Strange Horizons, IGMS, and Escape Pod. All of them except for IGMS have rejected it so far, which isn’t too unusual for short stories (you tend to accrue a LOT of rejections before anything gets published). After I hear back from IGMS, I’ll probably send it out to a couple more pro markets and a handful of semi-pro markets before I publish it myself.<\/p>\n

I’ve got to be honest, I’m really really tempted just to put it out right now. But I want to give the magazines a try first. I can always self-publish it after I’ve exhausted all the markets, but once it’s self-published, none of the magazines will take it. Better to be patient and keep it on submission for now.<\/p>\n

You can probably expect to see this story sometime early next year, either in a sci-fi magazine (fingers crossed), or on Amazon. When I do publish it, I’ll make it free for my email list subscribers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So last week, I was dinking around with some images, making a cover mock-up for a Star Wanderers short story that’s currently on submission to Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. This is what I came up with: The model is Devon Jade, photographed by Aaron Tyree on Deviantart (CC BY 2.5). The background image… Continue reading Playing with cover art<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[170,857],"tags":[913,903],"class_list":["post-9872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories","category-sw","tag-cover-art","tag-cover-reveals","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2ze","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9872","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=9872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9875,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9872\/revisions\/9875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}