The cover is nearing completion. What's left is to work on the design and placement of the text overlay. Here's a preliminary mock-up of the design:


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As the work starts to progress on an anthology, several things happen simultaneously in order for a timely release. The authors are writing their stories. The publisher is working on marketing plans and setting up the master document in which the stories will be inserted, formatted, edited ( Read more... )

Late December 2008

It was winter just before New Year's Eve.


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September 2008


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My next post will be the first in a series about the process of getting a book ready to release, from the perspective of the publishing and editing side of it, specifically, for the anthology Renaissance Festival Tales, Five Renfaire-inspired Fantasy Novelettes, by camillealexa, mcchambers, quixhobbit, dragonet2, writerknv. Edited by ericreynolds and gerrileenAlthough this project is already under way, we're still ( Read more... )

...for the cover art for the Renfest anthology, Renaissance Festival Tales.

Met with Rachael Mayo (the cover artist for Buffalito Destiny by Lawrence M. Schoen, klingonguy, and The Priestess and the Slave by Jenny Blackford) at Starbucks (tm) today to hash out some ideas for the Renfest anthology. She came up with some very intriguing ideas for the cover, ( Read more... )

In August 2009, Hadley Rille Books will release the Renaissance Festival-inspired anthology, Renaissance Tales, edited by Gerri Leen gerrileen and Eric T. Reynolds ericreynolds.

Five fantasy novelettes by Camille Alexa camillealexa, M.C. Chambers mcchambers, Julia Dvorin quixhobbit, Paula H. Murray dragonet2, Kim Vandervort writerknv. The stories will be illustrated by Rachael Mayo. Cover artist pending ( Read more... )