Publishing Update: Cover design

The publishing ball is currently in iUniverse‘s court. By earning the Editor’s Choice designation, iUniverse gives me free professional art direction for my book cover design. While I’ll certainly consider what they come up with, I really like the cover design already created and submitted to iUniverse by my friend and colleague Steve Palmer at 76Design, the graphic and web design arm of Thornley Fallis.

I’m also trying to decide whether I want to fork out the dough to have the whole manuscript professionally proofread. It’ll add another couple of thousand dollars to the price tag but on the other hand, I really don’t want any typos slipping through. Alternatively, I could try to proofread it myself or have a friend do it. Decisions, decisions.

I also had my twin brother Tim, a solid photographer in his spare time, take another author photo that will appear in the published novel somewhere.

I’ll keep you posted as the journey continues…