Night of Fire is coming out from Ellora’s Cave on Monday!!! IMO this is one hunky cover.  I had no input into the finished product which is good with me ’cause I couldn’t be happier.  I love mature looking men on my covers because I don’t do toy boys.  Way too old to be turned on by smooth skinned fellas. Give me a few scars and years of experience.

I’m totally in cover mode this morning having just finished filling out a cover fact sheet for something I just sold to EC.  Sitting in my inbox is the draft cover for my upcoming LooseID story Wind Howl which I’d love, love, love to show here, but I don’t yet have approval.  I really dig it because it easily ties in with Storm Howl, the first story in this paranormal wolf series so as soon as I have the go-ahead, up it goes wherever I can think to post.

Covers are a world into their own and largely a mysterious process to me. I don’t know how cover artists work in today’s world, the whole computerized thing.  Years ago when I was writing for Harlequin, I attended a conference where I got to watch the then process.  Actual models were used and the other writers and I gawked as the beautiful people in their beautiful clothes contorted themselves in poses no mortals would willing assume. Fans blew hair about and the models, who were probably strangers to each other, gazed lustfully into each others’ eyes.  Umpteen pictures were taken and the artists worked from those pictures although I think I also remember the models holding the poses while the artists weilded their paint brushes. 

But things have changed and the art departments for various publishers operate in ways I can’t imagine.  I’d love to see how they create their modern magic, at least I think I would.  Maybe its better if I let ignorance rule.  What matters is the end result and in the vast majority of cases, I’ve been WAY pleased with my covers.

Anyone know how things get from a writer filling out a cover fact sheet to the finished product?

Vonna the ignorant

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