Book Cover(s) for TIME OF DAUGHTERS

[sartorias]

I'm finishing up a two volume story, which I'm publishing myself, as my other projects are so very backed up at DAW.

Take a look at these covers, painting and design by Scarlett--well, it's the same cover as it's one book split into two volumes, but with color accents that complement.

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[whswhs]

I was perplexed by "color accents that complement" until I looked really closely. I think I'm seeing that the title and the volume number are cool in the top one and warm in the bottom one, but it really didn't jump out at me.

The phrase "young rulers new to duties they never foresaw" sounds almost exactly like a description of Rise of the Alliance, so I'm perplexed at how they fit into the historical continuity. Is that the same crisis, told from a different angle? Or a different and earlier crisis whose resolution will figure into the setup for the print series? Or something else? I assume it can't be events after those in A Sword Named Truth, or else you'd be writing about it in a subsequent volume of that series. . . .

[sartorias]

Oh, nice call. I didn't even think that I was using the same words. Totally different times, and totally different situations. Now I gotta think of few words that set up the situ but don't sound like the blurb to Sword Named Truth.

Thanks!

*commence tearing hair*

[sartorias]

How about this?

“I foresee a kingdom full of daughters”-was a prediction from a coded letter shortly after the infamous New Year’s Week of Four Kings.

It’s nearly a century after the death of Inda, the unbeatable Marlovan commander. The empire of Iasca Leror, now called Marlovan Iasca, is beginning to break up.

Crisis strikes. The kingdom is fracturing into feudal states. In an effort to wrest the Marlovans back to the glory days, the new rulers revive old traditions while reinventing others-such as bringing women into that unbeatable army.

By the time the Marlovans learn that you can’t go back again, events accelerate to a climax that no one could have foreseen-except the ghosts walking the walls in the royal city.

[whswhs]

It's hard to be sure, of course, since I already have thought of the apparent link, but I thinkthat if I had read this blurb naïvely, I wouldn't have even thought of A Sword Named Truth. You've gotten rid of the words that sent me down the garden path.

[puddleshark]

Excellent cover! I'm really looking forwards to these and to A Sword named Truth!

[sartorias]

Thank you!