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Let’s make a cover for my newest novel… part 4…

Posted on June 22, 2017 by pouringmyartout

Another quick layout idea for the cover art for the new book. This one has the princess… AKA my daughter, Mollie… I like the grey background better than the white, but I still think it needs some foliage. And yes, … Continue reading →

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Let’s make a cover for my newest novel… part 3…

Posted on June 22, 2017 by pouringmyartout

This is about as simple an idea for a book cover as you could possibly come up with. A plain, white background. I like the font. But I miss the princess. I want to come up with a way to … Continue reading →

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Let’s make a cover for my newest novel… part 2…

Posted on June 21, 2017 by pouringmyartout

Admittedly, the first of my ideas for a cover for the new book was a little too… crowded? claustrophobic? busy? This one captures the fact that the seven kingdoms are all individual islands. It also captures the fact that our … Continue reading →

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Let’s make a cover for my newest novel… part 1…

Posted on June 21, 2017 by pouringmyartout

Okay, that is a quick mock-up of a very simple design. There is still a lot we could do with that. We could use filters in Photoshop to make the photo of my daughter more faded. Or, we could get … Continue reading →

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I finished my latest novel… part 2…

Posted on June 21, 2017 by pouringmyartout

So, it is time to make a book cover! As I said, I am doing it all, right here, on the blog. And yes, I am using my younger daughter as the model. She is supposed to be Princess Hildread … Continue reading →

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I finished my latest novel… part 1…

Posted on June 20, 2017 by pouringmyartout

Some of you may recall that I was posting chapters of my newest novel, The Seven Kingdoms, as I was writing it… it is still there, the parts I posted, at least, under the button labeled: The Seven Kingdoms, in … Continue reading →

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Water + color = watercolor…

Posted on May 30, 2017 by pouringmyartout

Believe it or not, between all the other stuff I have been doing while visiting my mom in the Bay Area, I actually did some watercolor painting. That is a picture I started about 10 or 12 years ago, on … Continue reading →

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Oh yeah, beginning the editing process on my newest novel…

Posted on May 28, 2017 by pouringmyartout

One of the things I am going to do while I am in the Bay Area vising my mom, is to start editing my newest novel: The Seven Kingdoms. (You can read a large portion of it, unedited, under the … Continue reading →

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Well, how many books have you written, Arthur, I hear you asking yourselves…?

Posted on May 21, 2017 by pouringmyartout

That is a very good question, thank you for asking. Let’s see, I suppose it depends on how you add it up. So far, I have self-published the first three novels in my hilarious and exciting action/humor science fiction series: … Continue reading →

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Yes, I not only write books, but I do the illustrations for the ones for children too…

Posted on May 20, 2017 by pouringmyartout

And I did a few aliens also, that didn’t end up in my science fiction action/humor series of novels. I just do those for fun.

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