I feel like I’m imitating Hollywood (blegh!) and just doing post sequels. What have I become?!
It’s been out for a few months now but let’s properly introduce it. Ah-hem. I’d like you to meet the new front cover of Our Intrepid Heroine:
It’s back! It has a new front cover! It’s been edited! It’s as short as ever! And I didn’t: a) do the editing or b) do the front cover design and yes, I call that an absolute win.
There was an old front cover. There was an old front cover making process. But that’s in the distant past now. I call this a glow up. A follow up post six years later.
I wasn’t sure what the heck this book needed but it needed an upgrade. It didn’t need to look like a unicorn genocide had taken place in a post-apocalyptic world. It needed to have colour. It needed to have panache! Style! I didn’t need to be languishing over AHHH THE UNICORN DOESN’T HAVE A HORN or DANG IT! I LEFT THE TELEGRAPH POLES IN THERE!
So I showed Monkey & Whale Designs all my favourite book covers. I drew a very bad sketch of what a new front cover might look like (‘stained glass’ I announced with considerable authority) … and voilà.
Things started happening. and friends, comrades, fellow air-breathers … we have come a long way from:
These are the facts: Our Intrepid Heroine has a unicorn following her about, she can’t pronounce ‘felicitations’, and she’s on her way to slay a dragon. A dragon that has killed an entire flock of her father’s sheep, three goats and one pig. And a frog.
Our Heroine has a sword named ‘Death’ and a spear called ‘Doom’. She is afflicted by the presence of pesky princesses, mysterious Hooded Persons, and noble knights.
Narrated by a Narrator who is fond of detours and digressions, this is a short novella with tongue-in-cheek humour and Very Important Tips in hunting dragons that will be sure to stir the curiosity of the eager amateur dragon-hunter.
BOOK CREDITS:
*orchestral music plays*
Edited by: Deborah O’Carroll
Designed by: Monkey & Whale Designs
Written by: Me. In 2014. At the Beginning of Everything.
Available: Here
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Thanks for the mention, Ness. Really enjoyed crafting the cover for you.
Our Intrepid Heroine is such an entertaining and fun series. Roll on more books!monkeyandwhaledesigns@gmail.combpscotton@gmail.com
I’m dead chuffed with the cover 🙂 It is the DOPEST as I’ve told you 😀
What a brilliant post. Quite a lovely way to start the day. I’m smiling. 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 xx
I like the new cover but mostly because it has color. Although I don’t like the double framing. It’s single framing but if you include the background, it’s double framing plus when view small, thumbnail size which most people does when browsing on the web, the image gets even smaller. If needed, you can always move the unicorn icon in the title, Heroine. I guess when compared to the old version, the new one is pretty good.
Have a lovely day.
Yes, I adore the colours – it’s a vast improvement!
You too!!!