New Package

Introducing the new cover for my novel Days of Atonement, which replaces a cover designed in the days when I was fairly new to Photoshop.  I was trying really hard to think of a cover that said, “gothic western science fiction police procedural,” which is what the novel is, and I overthought it and threw in too much stuff and it got overcomplicated and homely.

This one at least gets the “science fiction” and “western” parts, plus it’s a lot prettier.  The fractal design in the center is by the new artist Lance Beaton, whose works dazzled at Bubonicon a couple months ago.

The new volume is available on Amazon, Kobo, B&N, iBooks, and Smashwords, and it’ll be up on Google Play as soon as they get around to doing whatever it is they’re going to do.

The novel, however, is the same novel, so if you have it already, you probably don’t need a new copy unless you really love the new cover.  (You do love the new cover, right?  Look at it closely.  See the pretty stars?  Now listen to my calm, measured, reassuring voice when I tell you how splendid it is, and how badly you need it . . . )

I’m in the process of putting out new editions of all my ebooks, though most of them will keep the same covers.  After a tutorial from indiepub wizard Emily Mah Tippets, I’ll be using Jutoh to put out more, prettier, and better books.

(Jutoh is an amazingly flexible instrument, by the way, but it seems to have been designed by a Martian, and much of it is overcomplicated or counterintuitive.  And then there’s a book about how to use it which has the advantage of not being in Martian, but seems to have left out much of the stuff I actually need to know. So I do recommend a hands-on tutorial by an expert.)

Anyway, I’m hoping a prettier cover will attract more readers to one of my perennial also-rans.  Because I happen to think this is one of my best books, and I want folks to find it and read it.