WELL LOOKEE WHAT WE GOT HERE...
OMG COVERS
Readers, backers, countrymen! I promised you updates and I intend to deliver like a crazy person! Let's talk covers! As we mentioned during funding, the amazing Jason Gurley is designing the final cover for the published hardcover edition of Abomination. Jason is the brilliant designer of many beautiful books, not least of which Hugh Howey's best-sellers Wool and Sand. Jason has officially retired from the world of book design but agreed to come out of retirement for one last mission. He has already dived right in, working up some preliminary concepts, which I'm thrilled to share with you here. These are just early roughs with a lot of work still to do, but the intention is to narrow these five candidates down to a final winner and then finesse the hell out of it. I certainly have my favorites among this bunch but I want to hear yours as well! Don't be shy about posting in the comments with your thoughts on the preliminary designs below...
Jennifer Dawton and Winston Fields used to run a quaint diner off Old Highway 86. It was a long, winding road slicing through dense forests and meadows grazed by cows and other four-legged creatures. The barns used to hold horses and pigs and chickens, but by the time The Beast was born, there were only machines. Still, when the Dawton-Fieldses relocated back in the eighties, there were no sub-divisions or shopping centers or cookie-cutter homes. Just tick-infested forests filled with agile an. . .
You know the moment you get the news that you’ve been waiting for? Like a new job. Engagement. Baby on the way. One-million likes on Facebook or Twitter. Pure elation. That was me in the winter of 1998. I had just been accepted to my college of choice in Sunny San Diego, CA! I couldn’t wait to leave the rainy (and beautiful) city of Seattle, WA. Sure, I would miss my friends and family tremendously, but I had dreamed of moving to San Diego to study fashion since I was 7 (no joke, just ask my m. . .
