A Place of Safety - Derry / New World For Old / Home Not Home

A Place of Safety - Derry / New World For Old / Home Not Home
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Friday, August 29, 2025

This work?

I perused Shutterstock and found a nice series of vampire images from this one photographer that might work well for BA-3's thumbnail or avatar. This is my first go at one, just to see how it looks. It's pretty damn specific as to what the book is about.

The hanging figure needs to be more distinct, and maybe a bit of blue on the blood-soaked image. Not 100% on the font, either; it's bland but easy to read.

I think I'm going to redo the first two avatars, as well. Make it more obvious they're about vampires and not a romance or something dark but not much more. I tend too much to the suggestion sort of imagery than the kind that will catch a vampire-lover's attention.

I may do it for Dirc and the Dyarvos Bones, as well, to emphasize the SF/Horror aspect of it.

If I do combine all the parts into a single paperback book, I'm thinking I may add in illustrations to help carry it along, like was done in Victorian times. I'd have to work in pen and ink because Color printing would be prohibitive and might lessen the quality of the book. Even if I do it in hardcover.

Hmm...I wonder if it's too late to work up a 2026 calendar of images for BA, so far? Offer them online, myself. Or even of all my books to be colored in...

Something to garner attention for my work...

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