First, I’m happy to announce that Altered Seasons: Monsoonrise has an e-book cover, courtesy of We Got You Covered. It’s very hard to pick the right image for a 140,000+ word novel, but I think this one does it. Seriously, look at it. Every single element in this image is beautiful without trying to be. You can practically smell the sea air and feel the coming danger. Isabel even looks… close enough to the way I pictured her, which if you know anything about the book cover business is a minor miracle. The one downside is that having this on display next to the Locksmith Trilogy book covers is going to make them look distinctly amateurish. (And yes, that title font is our old friend Bebas Neu
In honor of the Harry Potter festival in Chestertown, I’m going to use this post to speculate on which Houses my characters might be sorted into. (This is the part where somebody screams “READ ANOTHER BOOK!” If you only knew how many books I’m reading right now…) In the Locksmith books… Lock himself would be in Gryffindor. This would be a great surprise to him, and to no one else. Gary, most obviously, would be in Ravenclaw. Tara would probably go to Gryffindor just for showing up, given the nature of her problem. Although Brandon’s instinct is to side with whoever is strongest, which is a Slytherin trait, he would most likely Sorted into Hufflepuff — he doesn’t have much of a mean strea
