{"id":66,"date":"2011-05-20T14:23:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T18:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2011-05-20T14:23:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T18:23:47","slug":"cover-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Cover Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, the time has come for me to make a cover for Rhymer<\/em>. The recording process for the podiobooks <\/a>version starts this weekend, and (assuming they accept the project) I need to get the associated image ready.<\/p>\n

Rhymer <\/em>is a retelling of an ancient Irish imram<\/em><\/a> (seafaring wonder voyage myth) set in a sci-fi space universe<\/a>.\u00a0 My goal is to convey this in an image.<\/p>\n

I’ve been digging on all the minimalist covers\/posters which have been running around online, so a few circles and vectors led to this:<\/p>\n

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Green circles = space, right?\u00a0 And a sailboat where a spaceship would be = something unusual and ancient is afoot here.<\/p>\n

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My first draft of the complete cover keeps with the minimalist thing.\u00a0 The font looks like 70’s mythology text to me, very D’aulaires’<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I used this as the cover for the proof copies I Lulu’d up to make editing and proofing easier. It looked OK, but much more suited to online.<\/p>\n

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For draft #2, I poked around for 60’s and 70’s book covers to see what the masters did.<\/p>\n

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And yes, I added a distressed look because I am a book nerd. The drawing for the logo is taken from one of a hanafuda <\/a>cards.\u00a0 Chance, games, and weather play major parts in the book, so the Rainman card seemed a natural choice.<\/p>\n

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Of course, e “covers” don’t really need all the same stuff that RL covers do.\u00a0 Like, ya know, words <\/em>and all that<\/a>.\u00a0 Perhaps I’ll end up just using the “icon” version. Hmm….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, the time has come for me to make a cover for Rhymer. The recording process for the podiobooks version starts this weekend, and (assuming they accept the project) I need to get the associated image ready. Rhymer is a retelling of an ancient Irish imram (seafaring wonder voyage myth) set in a sci-fi space […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,6],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cover","tag-rhymer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}