I am really, really happy with this, so I just wanted to show it off. I am extremely blessed to be friends with several artists. I had the art drawn for me by a friend, and another design-minded friend helped me with the lettering placement and font and everything. I'm feeling a little bit insecure about my contribution to it, but I fiddled with it for an embarrassingly long time and showed it to a bunch of people and they all assured me it looked fantastic, so I figured I'd better stop trying to thinker with it before I drove myself insane.
Anyway. Um. It's my first book, I'm e-pubbing it in a week. It's seven fairytale retellings that straddle genres between fantasy and horror, and all of them deal in one way or another with fantastic (and often ill-advised) romances.
If you're curious, I'm talking about it all week on my blog: T.L. Bodine
And my artist posted a bunch of progress photos on her own blog, which gives kind of a cool insight into how the whole process works: Brain Drain: Art and Sketches by Jillian Lambert: The Beast in the Bedchamber: book cover progress!
So, um, yeah.
I'll happily take constructive criticism, but be gentle on me...I won't be tweaking *this* cover any more because it will drive me insane (unless, like, sales are totally awful and all the reviews are complaining about the cover or something) but I'll take advice in mind for future covers. And I even promise to keep my big girl pants on even though I'm kind of a ball of nerves about this book release right now