Up and Coming

The subtitle of the next Sunset High novelette is officially going to be Cutthroat. I have already thrown a mock up cover together for it and it is almost a quarter of the way editing. It would probably be halfway editing but I got editor's block last night (no, I didn't know there was such a thing either) and ended up downloading Photoshop beta and messing around with it for the rest of the time that I should have been editing.

After designing the latest cover image for the new Sunset High novelette, which I will post below for shits and disappointments (it would be giggles, but let's face it, my cover design gets worse and worse . . . or rather simpler and simpler),

I have decided that it is time for me to take a pause on the series (after I finish editing and publishing Cutthroat) and redo the cover design for the series so that it is cohesive. I think one killer for the series is that none of the covers look the same which therefore make the series look . . . not like a series.

After Cutthroat is available for purchase, I am going to take a month long break to relearn Photoshop. I have a beta version of the new CS so I've been playing around in that. In case you're wondering, the book cover above was created in Paint.net.

My biggest problem with creating a cohesive cover series is that I lack artistic vision in terms of . . . actual art. There are some parts of the novelette series that I think are best represented with simple plain images . . . and there are other parts that I think would look great with more detailed photo manipulation. To keep the series cohesive, I can't have both. So, while I'm busy learning Photoshop I will have to decide which route I want to take for the entire series.

Anyways, I'll probably post my finished projects on the blog just so you guys can see how my Photoshop progress is coming along. Until then, it's off to continue editing Cutthroat and hope that my editor's block from yesterday has gone. Here's to hoping.