Hello, and welcome to our latest Sunday selfie!
This week we have been contemplating the new book covers for books 1 to 3 of our series. Yes, we are redoing the cover for book 1 which is already published. Whilst we all loved it, some criticism levied at it was that its relevance to the actual plot was not clear, I was not as prominent as I could be, and that it did not appeal to the younger target audience through action, colour and adventure.
As authors, these criticisms can be hard to take, and take on board, especially when so much artistic time and money has gone into creating the covers.
But as time passes, and attitudes mellow, you can see through pride and discover that a book's cover can not just live in the mind and aspirations of the authors who live most of the time in their own world. As we buddhists know and understand, there is nothing that exists independent of anything else, be it a person, piece of furniture . . . or a book cover.
So with that in mind, and the 1920s rose coloured glasses removed, we, Mrs H, our amazing artist, Craig Howarth, and I, have been working on a new action filled and topical cover theme for the first three books at least.
More will be revealed in due course, lets just say that the new covers allow us to map out the shape of adventures to come.
This week's selfie is a head to foot shot, sans the middle bit. It was an inspired image captured last week with the aid of Mrs H. Here's looking at you, kid (fellow felines and humans, too!)
We are joining the Sunday Selfies, hosted by the wonderful Kitties Blue and their mum, Janet Blue, from the Cat on My Head blog in America. Click this sentence to visit Janet Blue's site. Or copy and paste this link: https://thecatonmyhead.com/
Till Laters!
ERin & Mrs H.
