I’m a cover artist, so I can’t help but Google book cover art to see what I can find. What can one expect? With no formal art training, I have to get my education somewhere. So I find a page full of early Harlequin paperback cover art, and I’m utterly fascinated. So this is pulp fiction, dime novels, trashy romance, and all that jazz. This is where those phrases originate. So I’m looking at these pages, trying to imagine the…
I have the worst timing. For Mother’s Day this year, I got the notion to send my mother flowers, especially considering how hard her year has been. I figured I’d do myself a favor and order early so that I’d be assured that the flowers would be in stock, and there’d be no problem filling my order. I checked and double-checked the delivery address and even set the delivery date a day early so that she’d have the flowers all…
H.E. and I went to see a performance of Pilobolus tonight. One of their dancers was injured Tuesday, so they changed the program a little, which was kind of a bummer because I imagine the show would have been even more impressive with the original program. As it was, they began with the best and most awe-inspiring piece of the evening, one that truly characterizes Pilobolus, and then they ended with a piece that was just like any old modern…
Cell phone text messaging between H.E. and me. Me: Je t’aime! 🙂 H.E.: Avec fromage! Me: Yes. I love your cheesy goodness. 🙂 Share this post:
I promised one of you that I’d post tonight, so I thought I’d post a WIP (work in progress) of my very first chick-lit type of cover, now in print at Amazon. Uh, it looks like crap on Amazon, but I swear, the quality was better than that when I turned in the press-ready PDF file! The book is actually more erotic romance than chick lit, but the art direction I was given was for a cartoon cover much like…