It’s time once again to share the making of a cover. This time, for the final book of “The Tharassas Cycle” – The Death Bringer.
The fabulous Kelley York and Sleepy Fox Studios crafted this one for me. We started with a few possibilities:
We tried the last one, an alien creature who looked a bit like a hammerhead shark:
Not quite there. So I asked Kelley to try the fourth one:
It needed… something. How about some creepy eyes?
And finally for the coup de grace… a tail:
Put it all together, and:
I’m thrilled with the final result, and hope you like it too! It’s up for preorder now at all the usual vendors, releasing on September 19th, but if you are coming to BayCon this week, I’ll have advance paperback copies for sale!