{"id":42,"date":"2014-11-05T19:19:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T08:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2014-11-05T19:19:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T08:19:57","slug":"creating-the-cover-of-my-novel-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/11\/05\/creating-the-cover-of-my-novel-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating the cover of my novel &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg\" alt=\"0b26a13\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg 200w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whoever said that you should not judge a book by its cover was obviously swimming against the tide. Judging a book by its cover is precisely what most people do. You only need to stand in a book shop (you remember book shops don&#8217;t you?) and watch people browse. The books with the great covers are constantly being examined.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I wanted a great cover. And I wanted it as soon as I finished my first draft (around March 2014). Somehow that made my attempt at writing more real. It gave me comfort. I could see what I was aiming at. I had to have that cover!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here it now is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cover-v3_0.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cover-v3_0.jpg\" alt=\"Cover: Tempting in Shade\" width=\"458\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cover-v3_0.jpg 458w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cover-v3_0-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But how did I get there?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1<\/strong> &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever said that you should not judge a book by its cover was obviously swimming against the tide. Judging a book by its cover is precisely what most people do. You only need to stand in a book shop (you remember book shops don&#8217;t you?) and watch people browse. The books with the great covers are constantly being examined. Anyway, I wanted a great cover. And I wanted it as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[11,12,13,3,9],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-soulthief","post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arttuts","category-the-business-of-writing","tag-art","tag-book-cover","tag-digital-art","tag-fantasy","tag-science-fiction","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cover-v3_0.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}