Jewel In My Crown

Behold the new cover for the upcoming ebook release of The Crown Jewels.  I slapped it together myself with Photoshop and a piece of stock art.

Not bad, if I do say so myself.  And it achieves the principal objective of an ebook cover, which is to remain legible when reduced to postage-stamp size.

I plan fairly shortly to release the three Maijstral books simultaneously.  The first will have a very attractive price.

Why the Maijstral books, you ask?

To begin with, the stakes are low.  These are books that never found an audience— the sales in fact were damn near an order of magnitude smaller than some of my other works.

So if the books find a new audience, it’s glorious!  If they don’t, all I’ve lost is a few hundred hours editing, rewriting, and cursing Photoshop for a counterintuitive piece of bloatware.

I have to say that, cursing Photoshop aside, I’ve been enjoying the process of producing these books.  I haven’t read them since their original copy-edit, and with the complete objectivity brought on by the passage of 25 years or so, I can confidently say, Hey, these are really good books!

So stand by for further announcements.  I’ll let you know when the package goes on sale.