This is cover number six.
It’s the last cover that Christi has done that is
prepared for publication, because the next covers are for things that are
either being written, or have been
written but are awaiting acceptance or rejection by various publications.
This cover represents the first time I’ve ventured away
from my two series, Nicholas Turner
and Justice Security. I wanted to do something different, something
that might be “sellable” in a magazine format.
And I had always enjoyed the song, “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”,
so I came up with a story for it, suggesting that a large commercial fishing
vessel had been named after the well-known ship that went down in the Great
Lakes years ago. Then, when I read about
the Fukushima nuclear reactor leaking radioactive water into the Pacific, my
story “jelled”, or came together.
Of course, when I wrote it, I only knew of two
magazines that might accept submissions from me, and I gave up after the second
rejection. If I had known then what I
know now…but I drift from my topic.
The cover, again designed by my sweet, artistic wife,
displays a ship in peril by something huge, with glowing red eyes.
It fits the story, and is just creepy enough for
Halloween, don’t you think? And it’s now
an Audiobook performed by the talented Patrick Peterson, available at
Amazon.com, Audible.com, and, soon, at iTunes.
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