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GeoffC and pdurrant
You guys are just the best! I’m very grateful for your eagle-eyed assessments.
Firstly, GeoffC, thank you for testing the links. I’ve been back and changed them and they now seem to work. Please let me know again if you find they don’t.
Yes, pdurrant, it was partly the opening of the UK branch of the Amazon Kindle store that made me realise just how little 99 cents was, when translated into GBP – about the price of a bar of chocolate – and my books will last you a bit longer!
Vicki Tyley's cover is indeed very attractive, as, of course, is yours – one that I am sure is much admired.
On the subject of my covers – one of my daughters (the one with the degree in Fine Art) drew the image for the cover of Passengers to Sentience – the creature depicted needed to have skin like a cuttlefish. Cuttlefish don’t feature in the story but some of the characters in the story have skin which they can change in colour and pattern at will, rather like cuttlefish. I hesitate to say more as it is meant to be a bit of a mystery thriller type of SF story.
The Passengers to Zeta Nine cover was (in the case of Art Daughter being in Peru for eleven weeks) done by me :-) processing a digital photograph of a rather nice piece of Maltese glass through a sequence of operations in an image manipulation program. If the image was meant to be the earth, perhaps it could be forgiven for being a little wobbly, as I understand the earth does indeed wobble on its axis (OK, I know that’s not what you meant). However, the image is intended to be planet Zeta Nine of the title – a place where the pioneers get more than they bargained for.
I am very grateful for your ideas on the backgrounds and type face. Honest comment is a valuable thing indeed and I shall be looking into different fonts, layouts and backgrounds after the weekend.
Thank you for your support and for buying my books.
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