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My big sis is working on a rendition of my cover image for my big novel. I gave her a mock-up of what I wanted, along with a paragraph to explain it. She called today to clarify or confirm a few things, and say she's doing the one version without charging me for it.

She charges thousands of dollars to her clients for this kind of service. o.o;

Anyways, the turnaround time is about a week. She told me that if I don't like it, then her feelings won't be hurt and I can go with or without it. I'm confident between what I've given her and her own abilities to make things work. I'll see in a week how good it turns out. She appreciates, also, the simplicity of what I want, while also it stands out and resembles some part of my story.

With all that my big sis and I are doing it looks like one of my life dreams is happening, y'all. With a good image for the cover, a decent blurb that doesn't do the stupid, recent trend with non-words, and some beta readers likely to leave positive reviews once the eBook is on Amazon, I'm hoping it will sell well. There's one funny thing about that; my big sis subscribes to a service with a bunch of great stock photos, and if my book sells 500k copies then I'll have to pay a couple hundred bucks for an advanced license on the image she'll use for one mid-section of the whole cover image. I'll be able to spot that, but major publishers are likely to pick me up by then. At so many copies I'll be able to say I'm living the dream, free of the workforce, but one thing at a time. lol...

Just think, I'd started writing this thing in the latter third of March. I don't normally write Sci Fi, and many people who said they'd read it don't normally read Sci Fi. This could be the thing that gets one of my life dreams moving, ya know? It's exciting.
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