Hi all. Things are progressing as I work to get my new novella, Fire & Ice ready for publication early next year. Artist Emily Hurst Pritchett has just sent me rough sketches of the cover, the map of Dragon Home, and some choices for the chapter header. They all look really great, and I'm excited to see how the final versions turn out.
Once the book comes out, it will mark the second work I've published that is not really a part of the Deliverers Series. As I slowly move away from Eric, Stig, Kate, and Hallo. I'm trying to find my identity as an author as well. While I am still writing middle grade fiction, I can't use the Deliverers as an all-encompassing marketing blanket.
The question for me was, how to market my writing? At first, I thought it might be using White Owl Manuscripts as the flagship. I use the name as my Defacto publisher. But I decided that I needed to put my name out there more. I'd always used The Deliverers or White Owl whenever talking about my books. Those just did not seem to be satisfactory options, particularly now that I am writing other things, with maybe some even more different topics yet to come. I finally decided that I should start putting my name out there more. With that in mind, I turned to AI for an author logo. At first, I thought I'd do that just to get some ideas. However, Microsoft's Co-Pilot actually came up with something that was pretty good. Here it is:
