Saturday, March 4, 2023

It’s Starting To Form

I am Starting to play around with some cover ideas, designs and images for the book, which is now scheduled to be out next spring 2024. I’ll continue to play around with it as we hash out the dimensions (I think it should be square) and the cover material. Will it be a soft or hard cover? Will there be foil stamping or embossing? How about all of the above! ??

I’ve chosen these three images for different reasons. They will each convey a different initial feeling response from the reader and the publisher, editor and I will have to figure out what we want.

The first one is more dynamic and explosive. The second is a bit quieter and is the first Echelon picture I made and kinda always thought this one would be the cover of the book if there ever was one. And the third image is very quiet, very meditative. I think all of these describe Echelon.





No.147 - Big City

  As often mentioned, an Echelon scene will start by constructing a flying craft of some kind on a gradated sky. It’s a somewhat simple proc...