Not my new cover, but I’m still having fun ….

Wahoo! I just got the first draft of the new cover for Twists of time.  I do love the work done by these fine people at Deranged Doctor Design. Yes this cover is cool. Yes this will need some tweaking. But go ahead and take a peak, and then I’ll share the input I sent back. If the past is any indication of the future, I expect something closer to the mark sometime tomorrow or the next day.

Things I love (and don’t want changed):

1. Mayan ruins in background

2. Model you found for Xuhu

3. The yellowish clouds, and feeling of sun behind clouds

4. The way the title color works with the rest of the cover

 

Things I’m okay with either keeping or with changing:

1. Model you found for Alex

 

Things that have to be fixed:

1. Relative height. Xuha is on the short side. Alex is a former college basketball player. I assume images can be shrunk or squeezed to achieve this effect?

2. Hair — Alex is described throughout the book as a sandy blonde. I’m fine with you lightening his hair and making him taller if you can, or with finding a taller, blonder guy

 

Things I’d like to have fixed:

1. Much less blue or better yet no blue sky on cover. More clouds instead.

2. Yellower clouds, at least at edges.

3. The circle of light around them looks too much like the first cover. Can we do something more unique? Maybe it somehow involves a twist? (It’s fine if it doesn’t …..)