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Some news for the Touchstone fans. The wonderful Justine of Seraminda Editions has faced down the truly daunting task of translating Cass... -
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Yesss ! for photoshop fakery !
ReplyDeleteHeh - well, in this case it's more ohthankthefates finally found a stock photo which (1) matched at least one thing about the book (2) was beautiful (3) didn't look exactly like every other damn cover out there.
ReplyDeleteI like the ambiguity of this one - the mostly outline figures in the army make it possible to be any army, and the colouring hints at the a certain fiery event.
There's also an amazing sense of urgency and chaos and a mix of beauty and horror.
So how does this "make a new cover using already existing stuff" work? Do you use images that you can purchase the use of or are they creative commons/some other general use stuff or is there a rule about once you've altered it so much, its new?
ReplyDeleteI know some of your earlier books you paid someone to do the cover image, but you're using stock images for these.
I purchase them from a stock photo site. I haven't come across a free image I wanted to use, as yet.
ReplyDeleteAlmost all my covers have been painted on commission for me. It's only these ebook-only compilation covers that I'm using stock images for.
I like how it looks like autumn leaves.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought about it that way, but it could very well be the base of a great tree. It was the only image I found which captured anything close to the feel of the book, which had some really grandiose events - it's my most excessive use of magic in any novel. I did try layering an outline of a watching woman in there, since the story is very much a character piece rather than focused on the war.
ReplyDeleteI had my first review for "Voice" come in - fortunately a positive one, and one which has clearly seen that the war is...not incidental, but part of a series of events, while the focus and climax of the novel is Medair's choices.