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Cover Art Evolution – Zack Jackson, part 2
After going back and forth a few times discussing options, the artist, Scott Christian Sava, sent me another sketch. This one included all four main characters. The art style is inspired by the pulp sci-fi magazine covers of the 50s and 60s and by artists such as...
Cover Art Evolution – Zack Jackson, part 1
I've been working with Scott Christian Sava of The Dreamland Chronicles on the cover art for the debut novel in my Young-Adult Science-Fiction series, Zack Jackson & the Cult of Athos. This will be the first in a series of posts showing the cover from initial...
Zack Jackson Series
Zack Jackson and the Cult of Athos is the debut novel in a new YA Sci-Fi series. Zack is an ordinary kid from 43rd Century Wyoming, embarking on his first interstellar trip with the Junior Rangers. When an accident strands Zack and his friends on an alien world, they...
Zack Jackson and the Cult of Athos – 1st Draft DONE
Today I completed the 1st draft of my fourth novel (that's counting the unpublished first novel), Zack Jackson and the Cult of Athos. In short, it is the story of a boy from Wyoming in the year 4212. Zack is a Junior Ranger going on his first interstellar trip to the...
REVIEW – The Kindle Fire
I pre-ordered my Kindle Fire the day they were announced and received it yesterday. I have a 3rd generation Kindle Keyboard, so I considered this an upgrade so my wife and I wouldn't compete over the Kindle. I knew going into it that the Fire wasn't an iPad Killer;...