Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
The first story I wrote and finished was back in the early 1990s. The story was about a girl whose best friend died of cancer.
The girl went on to become a world famous scientist who ended up curing disease after disease in honor of her friend. AIDS, Cancer, those sorts of things.
How do you approach cover design?
The cover changed several times. The original cover had a retro and worn look to it. I designed the cover for it to be looked like it was pulled from the 1980s.
The original cover was a placeholder design of a tree. I just took the tree to make it look like it was kind of a branch and slapped Happy Holidays on it.
I jokingly told my friend I was giving up and that was the cover. He said it looked chilling and fit the theme of the book. So, I kept the joke as the cover.
The original cover had themes from the book blended in.
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