Whew! Well, I didn’t get much sleep last night, so I wasn’t expecting to be very productive today, and indeed other than a little editing, I wasn’t. But then I decided I should start trying to figure out the covers, and I hit on a cover design for the series that I really like. We’ll see how things go with the actual artwork, but I like the basic template a lot. I seen other people recommend this, but I do think that if you’re going for a specific feel for a cover, color-picking from photographs or artwork that are of the place or the period is really helpful.

Also, I used new GIMP for the first time today—it looks different from old GIMP, but it basically operates the same, so it was a pretty quick learning curve.