It’s time to start thinking about what a book cover for Altered Seasons: Monsoonrise should look like. For a different sort of book, this would be a lot easier. There are people who do pre-made covers for crime thrillers, fantasy, science fiction, westerns and romance. If you are a genre author and you see a cover that happens to be a good enough fit for your book, you can buy it. From what I’ve seen of these covers, they are excellent works of art, and I have nothing but praise for the artists who make them. But it does say something about the genres in question that people can do this at all. Cli-fi is a relatively new genre. No one has come to a decision on what the cover of a cli-fi
It’s approaching the end of August, the month in which I was planning to release the third book of the Locksmith Trilogy. Obviously, that's not going to happen. Locksmith’s War is about half done. The good news is that Book One of Altered Seasons, tentatively titled Altered Seasons: Monsoonrise, is done. It’s over 141,500 words long. I am meeting with a publisher soon, and am thinking of cover designs. Now comes the fun part — the pre-release marketing plan. First I’ll need a finalized cover image and release date, so everyone will know when to expect it and what to look for. Also, I have two websites, one of which looks about ten years old and the other looks like it emerged from the eldr
