The new (third) cover tries to catch the essenence of the reef upon which the characters of The Glass Weaver’s Tale live. It fails, of course, but hopefully will help fuel the imagination of the reader.
The second cover.
“The spider comes unbearably close, the bitter stench of burning oil and ozone so overpowering it makes Mica want to gasp and retch”
The Glass Weaver’s Tale
The inaugural cover, with art by BakaArts, showed an alpha female in her perfused state, being prepared for transfer to the sphere spawned from the Reef, in the title story of hyper-engineered human interstellar colonists.
OMG! I found this in among all the junk files I have accumulated for my first book. This was the very first time I saw a book cover with my book title, from Book Cover Zone. I got so excited! This image gave me a terrific boost to get through the following year of pain before the book was finally ready. By that time I had grown disillusioned with the various commerical book cover sites, finding the covers generic and uninteresting.
Goodness knows how I had the gall to contact Bruce Pennington to use one of his pieces of art but I did. And after a couple of false starts with his PA, Bruce finally agreed to let me use one of his old images, free of charge. I was over the moon. But then I suffered a bout of terrible guilt and remorse. My book was not good enough for one of his covers; he was an old man, being much too generous with a whipper snapper like me. No, I was not going to sully his reputation. So, this idea was binned.