Cover Reveal for Our Upcoming Novel Release - Gamenian

Who else is excited??  We sure are!!!   \ (*≧ω≦)ノ

B writes: Cover Art

So Ali & I have been looking into different artist and styles for the cover art for Gamenian. It's a bit tricky; we thought that we were allowed to choose an artist for the cover art, but we might have to go with the in-house artist instead.

This will be fine - I have no doubts about the in-house artist's skills at all; I'm sure they'd do a fabulous job. It's more that we were hoping to have the cover art and book trailer art (yes, we are planning a book trailer!  Excitement!) from the same artist for consistency's sake.

Maybe it won't make all together that much difference in the end? I don't know. We did pick our artist out for their very specific style of art, the line art and digital coloring were exactly the way we want it to look.  So we are hoping that we might be able to get our outside cover art approved, but we will have to see.

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A writes: Gamenian Stuff

*trumpet fanfare* my sister Boni and I are very excited to announce that Gamenian has been accepted for publishing! They are just a small publisher but we’re really looking forward to working with them. There is sooo much to think about though; book blurb, book tag line, cover, editing the manuscript to fit their guidelines… 

We decided to hire an artist ourselves to do the cover art because we’re also planning on doing a book trailer. The trailer will just have a couple of pictures to introduce Gamenians main characters and the idea we have for the cover fit into the video really well. So we figured, why not get an artist to do both? We did find an amazing artist; we haven’t sealed the deal yet but she seems pretty keen and we both love her work!

In the future I’ll be releasing more details – in the future we’ll probably be doing a cover reveal plus a sneak peek at the book trailer. And of course I also wanted to do a quick post of our query letter to help you guys out!  

Announcement: Gamenian

They say it's not in the bag until you hold your book in your hands, but...

We've signed with a publisher to get Gamenian published!!  It's a small, independent American publishing company, and it's going to be a huge learning curve, but we are excited to see how we get on from here.

One step closer....

B writes: Ugh, focus - NaNoWriMo Trouble

I'm at 5,500 words, two chapters down and I'm already losing focus... Writer's block and wrist aches.  Yay.

B writes: Well, we've somehow made it this far...

...and what a journey it has been!

Neither of us planned on publishing Gamenian at the beginning, but at some point along the way we realized that we weren't the only ones that liked the story we were telling. Mind you, our long suffering family had to put up with lots of interesting discussions where Ali and I were the only ones that actually knew what we were talking about, and often we would start talking about the next plot issue only to have one or the other of our two sisters beg us to "Please stop talking about stories."

For the most part I think the biggest obstacle for Alethia and I has been The Dreaded Writer's Block. A disease that most creative people are familiar with, and therefore worthy of a caps title. There are times when the well just dries up, life gets in the way - all that and more.  Sometimes I'm waiting on Ali, and sometimes she's waiting on me.  I think though, as a whole, working with a partner is a fun and interesting way to write - provided that, for the most part, you can agree. 

I personally feel in this case, two heads are better than one, and I'm excited to see how far we can get with this manuscript. I guess I don't have much more to say on the process at the moment; in a way I think I'm a little more removed from the story as it tend to live in Ali's head and I just see the parts that she puts on paper. But it shall be exciting to share where we go from here, we'll try to keep the blog updated but I think that, just like writing the story, publishing our novel is going to be quite an exercise in patience.  

B writes: NaNoWriMo

I'm going to give NaNoWriMo a whirl; anyone else giving it a go?

I'm a little late to the game, but let's see what happens...  : D