Two New Covers

The Poison-Pill Will and The Pawns' Game are currently out to my beta readers, so I thought I better get on the stick and create a cover for the stories. Since my simple black & white cover didn't seem to hinder the sales of The Isle House Ghost, I decided to go with that style for this one as well, plus convert The Founders' Tribunal cover to the same style, once this story is released. That, however will not be until some time in June or early July. These two stories however will be available in paperback form sometime in May, when I release an anthology of all the Red Hu/Wine novellas and short stories under the title of The Red Wine Dossiers. I still have to paint that cover, though right now, I am planning on using a version of this scene done in paint using colors that will match The Darval-Mers Dossier cover so the two books will share a common look.

I like the way this cover turned out. I could've placed the figures lower so that the title box would not cover up part of the umbrella, or just made the figures a little smaller, but I actually like it better this way. It ties everything together. And I could've moved the image over to the right just slightly so both umbrella tips were equally away from the bordered. But I didn't. Blame that on laziness. And well, who wants perfect symmetry, anyway? 

Below will probably be the new Founders' Tribunal cover. It's rather stiff, but figure drawing, and dog drawing, are another one of those many things that ain't in my wheelhouse. I should've pulled out my How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way book, but once again, I was too lazy. I don't think my readers are all that concerned about covers. 

Below is the complete set of novellas. I don't think I'm going to change the ebook cover of The Darval-Mers Dossier to this style, as not only is it novel, but it has a print edition as well.

Next on my agenda is painting that cover for the paperback version. Stay tuned for that in the coming weeks.