With ECCC coming up, I decided to get off my ass and make that collection of the first three chapters of Rita happen! This is the cover; I should have a proof soon, and if all is well then I’ll order a few to pass out at the con. I won’t be tabling – this is just for trying to attract some publisher interest. But if you’ll have an awesome book at the con too I could certainly be persuaded to do a swap!

(And of course I’ll also have ’em at the next cons I do attend, plus summoning one via the Internet.)

My original designs for the cover were a LOT busier. I ended up pulling back to some of my simplest ideas, stripped back even further – the front and back of this were all originally intended as parts of the cover of an eventual collection of the whole thing, with Blue and Red Rita in matching poses on the front, and the eerie image of the Panopticon in UV or glow-in-the-dark ink on top of it. I figure these could work for a series of small books, with a different Rita in a similar pose on the back of each, and the colored text on the front done to match. Though I still totally want the glow-in-the-dark thing going on if I hook up with a Real Publisher.