Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!
This is all very out of order – actually you know what, no, okay, I’m going to change my plan here. I was GOING to show you the cover for the SECOND book I have coming out this year, but hey! Let me show you the first cover first and then we can do the cover for book #2 next week 😀 Sense-making, we can has it!
Behold! Cover the first! The image is a lovely piece of stock art I found, so I didn’t need to do much there, but I did do the customary billion iterations to get the text looking how I wanted it 😀
Anyway, this is for my next collection of short stories, which is coming out at the end of April. (April 29, I think?) The cover says six stories so BY GOLLY THERE WILL BE SIX STORIES but as of writing this (a bit earlier than the posting thereof), I’ve tried TWICE to write a sixth story for this collection and BOTH TIMES the story got out of hand and ended up at about 8,500 words, which is technically long enough to count as a novella (if it’s good enough for the Aurealis, it’s good enough for me) and to release as its own little Thing. Hence! A bonus release I wasn’t planning on this year (that’s the cover I’ll show you next week), a release ready for NEXT year (no cover yet), and it’s back to the drawing board – writing app? – to try for third time lucky when it comes to writing the 6th story for this collection 😀
And now, what have you made this week? Don’t forget to tag your contribution, or even better, leave a link in the comments!! I love seeing what inspiring things other people have made 🙂 🙂 🙂