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    Taylor Clogston
    @taylorclogston

      @this-is-not-an-alien I appreciate the advice, but unfortunately this is a premade cover and I can’t change anything more with paying a big fee. It does the job of saying “scifi” well enough, and I think that’s what I need it to do. I could adjust the typography by adding to it in Photoshop, but can’t replace it with different typography.

      I got your email, thank you! Please do pass your sister a copy. I’d appreciate if she could fill out questions also, but any feedback she has is welcome =P

      #144144
      Cathy
      @this-is-not-an-alien

        That would be an awkward thing to change there 😂 but it still looks fantastic! Oh man I’ve never touched Photoshop before but it’s a really popular graphic design program and I’ve heard it in almost anything graphic design-related.

        Alright! She’ll be very excited to read it, I’ll ask her if she can fill out the questions she’ll probably catch a lot of what I miss (especially in the “is it technologically plausible” area although I was horrified to learn I actually mostly understood Corrick’s gist of grabbing computer processors (after a couple days ago I spent hours looking up what makes a good graphic design laptop))

        To be a light to the world you must shine in the darkness.

        #146784
        Taylor Clogston
        @taylorclogston

          I published my book! Ebook available now, other formats available in future when I can get to them.

          Thank you to @this-is-not-an-alien for beta reading!

          This ended up as my final blurb:

          Planet Dirt: Remnant of an exile world, ground down by governmental and megacorp warring.

          The Accident a generation ago erased what its inhabitants had not already forgotten.

          Their brightest scientists vanished without a trace, leaving only the icy Wasteland.

          Carrick, a gangster, chooses Wasteland exile rather than betray the Family. Intelligent and loyal, he determines to bend the frontier’s prisoners to his will.

          After all, when people won’t choose what’s best for themselves, they must be forced to choose.

          But the Wasteland conceals impossible scientific phenomena that force Carrick to realize how little he understands.

          And when an officer of humanity’s ancient, starfaring empire crashes into the Wasteland’s heart, he reveals Planet Dirt’s coldest secret.

          The Accident was only the beginning of a bitter end.

          #146790
          Cathy
          @this-is-not-an-alien

            Sweet!!! CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!

            IT WAS AN AWESOME READ THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY!!!!!!!!!!!

            To be a light to the world you must shine in the darkness.

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