A cover design...

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Just an idea. I like it, but I am not entirely convinced :P. The image shows an essential aspect of Gawain, but I'm worried that it might give people a wrong idea of what kind of story will follow. And I don't know about you, but personally I hate deceptive covers...

So this will need more thought.

Now that I mention it: what kind of story am I writing, exactly? It's not really Sword & Sorcery, not really a romance, not really an epic, not really a comedy and not really a drama, not really a coming-of-age story, not really a fairytale... It has elements of all of these, but what is it?

Uh-oh. No label means no selling proposition. How to position and market it? If I don't know the reply to that one, it will be difficult to determine what cover I need. *grins stupidly*






Sketch done in pencils; then Photoshopped in an incredibly simple way; lettering + design elements added in Adobe Illustrator.

The flame thingy, which I think is quite pretty, is a standard Illustrator element of which I changed the colour. I'm thinking that I should really draw my own little element if I want to use something like this...

Also, designing is clearly a job in its own right and I have amazingly little talent for it -_-.