Well, time is moving on and we are edging closer to publication. DAW Books has almost finalized the cover and it is looking awesome! Thanks Kekai Kotaki! To be honest (interesting… how often am I not honest?), I didn’t expect to have as much input into the cover as I actually did. DAW asked me for my thoughts on what I would like to see on the cover. I consulted with my agent, the estimable Brady, who is way better at visualization than I am, and we sent our thoughts over to DAW. Kekai came back with some sketches reflecting various thoughts and demonstrating that some thoughts were definitely better than others. We picked one, Kekai fleshed it out, and then Brady and I rudely picked it apart. Kekai went away, tinkered with it some more and voila! an awesome cover treatment! I took an iPad with the cover image on it and propped it up on the shelving of my local B & N to compare it with its peers. It holds up pretty well, even if the electric glow of pixels gave it an unfair advantage. If Braking Day is a monstrous flop it won’t be because the cover was bad! At least I still have the day job….