What are your favorite books, and why?
I have read a lot of books, but now I mostly listen to audio books, which I enjoy a lot. These days I rotate from listening to history books and fictional books. I love learning about the details of historic events, but that can get to be a bit tedious, and often depressing, depending on the topic. I like science fiction and fantasy, but also enjoy a good adventure. From time to time, based on a recommendation from my wife, I'll listen to a "chic book", and almost always find that they are very entertaining. I have read many of the classics. I have lately been reading books by Joyce Strand. These are murder mysteries and are quite good. She is a local author and helped me get through the process of publishing my first book.
What's the story behind the cover design?
Mind Meld is about alien parasites invading the brains of a group of Marines, so the idea of using a psychedelic image of a human brain seemed like a good representation of what's going on in the story. We added a bunch of lightning to emphasize the notion of an invasion, but also to represent the turmoil that ends up going on in each of the human-alien hybrid beings.
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