Cerralvo Book Cover
Book Cover11 total reviews
Comment from supergold
a very good choice for a book cover but of course nothing can illustrate the life you had when you were much younger;.........................
reply by the author on 09-Oct-2022
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a very good choice for a book cover but of course nothing can illustrate the life you had when you were much younger;.........................
Comment Written 07-Oct-2022
reply by the author on 09-Oct-2022
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Thank you so very much -- somehow I thought I had already thanked you for your kind review and the extra star! Maybe I even did -- well I am confused but here I am as this popped up again!
Comment from Mr Jones
really a great book project and a highly interesting story indeed. the image you are projecting here is perfect for the intrigue and mystery that lies beyond and as you say the fact is way stranger than any manufactured fiction. not hocus pocus but true supernatural happenings, to the sides of a full-blown cult.
reply by the author on 06-Oct-2022
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really a great book project and a highly interesting story indeed. the image you are projecting here is perfect for the intrigue and mystery that lies beyond and as you say the fact is way stranger than any manufactured fiction. not hocus pocus but true supernatural happenings, to the sides of a full-blown cult.
Comment Written 06-Oct-2022
reply by the author on 06-Oct-2022
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Thank you indeed! This, my title page, and my "Billy the Kid" generated many interesting comments! FAR is one good way to "test the waters"... THANKS AGAIN!
Comment from suffolkbrian
seems to me you have had a very distitive upbringing and if this is a front cover of a book about that life then i feel it works well in as uch as you are looking on into that chapter of your life,think it will be an interesting read so thanks for sharing and hope you do well with it...Brian
reply by the author on 09-Oct-2022
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seems to me you have had a very distitive upbringing and if this is a front cover of a book about that life then i feel it works well in as uch as you are looking on into that chapter of your life,think it will be an interesting read so thanks for sharing and hope you do well with it...Brian
Comment Written 04-Oct-2022
reply by the author on 09-Oct-2022
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Sorry to take so long! Thank you so very much for your very kind review!
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your welcome
Comment from Brendaartwork18
Brilliant book cover that is very enticing The blue is dynamic and relates well to sea and islands and sky. Is it a moon? I imagibe it is and that is strikibg too how it hits the young girl's hat (you I assume). The Title lettering is smart and i.pirtant your author area is baka ced. Overall an attractive and very well constructed book cover.
reply by the author on 09-Oct-2022
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Brilliant book cover that is very enticing The blue is dynamic and relates well to sea and islands and sky. Is it a moon? I imagibe it is and that is strikibg too how it hits the young girl's hat (you I assume). The Title lettering is smart and i.pirtant your author area is baka ced. Overall an attractive and very well constructed book cover.
Comment Written 03-Oct-2022
reply by the author on 09-Oct-2022
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Sorry to take so long, Brenda! Thank you so very much for your very kind review and hope you are surviving your extreme challenges!
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Thank you. And thank you... just about managing
Comment from cleo85
This book cover draws the attention of the viewers because it triggers their imagination. There is a mystery included in the story. The viewer thinks about what brought the girl to the island and why she grows up there. The colors indicate a tropical destination. How the light reflects on the hat and the shoreline at the background is interesting.
The book cover is well composed and framed. The composition is balanced.
reply by the author on 03-Oct-2022
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This book cover draws the attention of the viewers because it triggers their imagination. There is a mystery included in the story. The viewer thinks about what brought the girl to the island and why she grows up there. The colors indicate a tropical destination. How the light reflects on the hat and the shoreline at the background is interesting.
The book cover is well composed and framed. The composition is balanced.
Comment Written 03-Oct-2022
reply by the author on 03-Oct-2022
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Thank you so much Cleo!!!! You know, in the original photo there was no sun or moon at all, just un-interesting kind of gray blue sky, so I can only imagine that the sun was just out of sight, but the light does seem to come perfectly from the moon doesn't it? Kind of magical. Thank you again!..
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You're veryh welcome. Its indeed magical. :o)
Comment from nikman
A good looking image posted here together with fascinating notes too! Your fine, full and appropriate composition offers us an enjoyable view of a dramatic location. The woman looks good too. Textures, colours and tones are good. Exposure and sharpness are fine. Nicely done!
reply by the author on 03-Oct-2022
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A good looking image posted here together with fascinating notes too! Your fine, full and appropriate composition offers us an enjoyable view of a dramatic location. The woman looks good too. Textures, colours and tones are good. Exposure and sharpness are fine. Nicely done!
Comment Written 03-Oct-2022
reply by the author on 03-Oct-2022
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Thank you!
Comment from Glena Jessee-King
Enjoyed your commentary, artist friend Daphne Oberon. Your proposed cover is very nice and like that you included colors symbolizing. Look forward to reading if I live as well and finish my novel with final artistic work on son's. Be sure and get a publisher and/or an agent as this takes as long as a book in many cases. Or, will it be self-published? I hope you go the former but do look forward to it either way.
reply by the author on 03-Oct-2022
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Enjoyed your commentary, artist friend Daphne Oberon. Your proposed cover is very nice and like that you included colors symbolizing. Look forward to reading if I live as well and finish my novel with final artistic work on son's. Be sure and get a publisher and/or an agent as this takes as long as a book in many cases. Or, will it be self-published? I hope you go the former but do look forward to it either way.
Comment Written 02-Oct-2022
reply by the author on 03-Oct-2022
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Thank you! Yes, the headache of finding an agent... I might have mentioned that I had a New York agent at one point that turned out to be so dishonest the CIA went after her for international mail fraud. (And she was well respected and in Jeff Herman's Guide to Agents and publishers. She supposedly had Disney interested in my book The Coloring Tree and I got letters from Disney supposedly that seemed authentic and there was never any question but that they were genuine, but all manuscripts handled by the agent were impounded in the courts and the situation never resolved... long story... I finally changed the book's title and privately published it but the time and cost of promotion is impossible for me to deal with... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ghost-Tree-Tonantzins-Blessing-ebook/dp/B08QHPHKRG
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Yes, I understand all that you indicate. I had an agent too when I first began to publish. Just didn't work. I'll have to check out your book. I will copy and paste the link. Our "Seven Years of Insanity--the Beginning" by Mark A King and Glena Jessee-King is also on Amazon and Barns & Noble, but I've revised the cover, inside illustrations added, and technical, hoping to republish as Seven Years and Beyond. Keep on and don't get discouraged. The promotion and other particulars are sometimes more work or as much as the writing.
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I like the title, Seven Years and Beyond. I presume you self published the way I did after the nightmare with the "respected" a gent, lol! If so, which self publisher did you use, and did you like them? My impression is that although sound individuals may be employed by them the management is generally pressured make these publishers into little better than scam outfits. If one can figure out their software one can publish straight through Amazon (Lightening Source) but I could not figure out their software and of course then they want to sell you services to deal with that and in the end you might as well have gone through a publisher. I have tried Outskirts Press, Gold Touch Press and Xlibris. I don't know what Outskirts Press might be like now, but I think they gave me the best experience. Gold Touch was all over the Internet as a scam, but wasn't, and I finally figured out that Xlibris gave them the bad rep because some of their staff left Xlibris and went there. I was very happy with them until the pandemic, when they went out of contact for nearly a year. Then they resurfaced with a barracuda for an author rep who charged over 400 a month just for an author website so if they are still "in the game" I don't recommend them anymore. Xlibris is the big shark in the industry and they misrepresent a lot and don't carry through. An example being that I was talked into putting an expensive add in the NY Times Book Review before Chistmas but it didn't go in until 3 days AFTER Christmas, but they would not take responsibility because they said that was the doing of the NYTBR and not their fault. Also they promised to follow the galley template from Gold Touch press for my book, My Grandfather's Horses, but the template was never even forwarded to the designer who they did not permit me to communicate with directly, and after 6 months of haggling finally an Xlibris galley was created but I did not notice that they had miss spaced all the lines and made the book much longer which made it more expensive... this would not have happened had they gone by the other galley as promised. When the complaint department finally got back to me they explained that their designers can't go by other galleys as each galley of each publisher is individual, and by then the rep who emailed me that reassurance had quit and I could not find his email stating that the designer would would follow the Gold Touch Press galley as it was under 600 responses to email complaints, and I got nowhere. I wanted my money back and to go anywhere else, but well they weren't about to do that, lol... So anyway, I kind of gave up on the whole thing and am gearing up to try and get an agent here in UK where I am now, (I have US UK citizenship, all this happened in the US...) That little book I wrote and illustrated, now called The Ghost Tree, was almost published here by Harper Collins UK after I gave up on the New York agent, but the editor they assigned me decided in the end that she did not like that it was set in a pre Christian era and told me I had to change it to a Christian story, and well I am sure she did not have the authority to do this at all, and it did not work for a pre-collumbian folk /myth that I only wrote in the first place because I had grown up in the foreign country, so I had many near misses with strange outcomes! Enjoy, fellow "struggler" in the pool of devastating literary politics!!!!
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Thanks for the input. I copied and shall keep, treasure. Well, first Westbow, a division of Thomas Nelson published. My son, the author, (I?m co-author) wrote from a mental health perspective and thought the parent company might pick up. I put quite a bit in minor revisions, never satisfied with my cover artwork. An agent has it, but I got sick, had shingles so long, and now must get back to another cover and have added the dog head images inside and/or spaces when important thoughts or actions appear. Mark is a tremendous writer (former young psychologist and now Director of the Support System for a nonprofit) and an English major and I went over with a fine-tooth comb. I renamed it to give some difference. I just wish I'd sent it to an agent to begin with but now I'll see how it goes. I dropped continuing and revising my novel, based on true stories (I had an agent, but she didn't work toward it as she should have. A traditional company wanted it, but I wish to go back and add other things, bringing up to my time.). So, I stopped to do his because I felt it needed to get out then. His is more of a wake-up call, mine more inspirational. But when I add the other it will be a wake-up call too, I hope. I sold several hundred just traveling of my earlier novel. Now with the crazy wokeness and other ridiculous things happening in the US, it may be a little more difficult for things to go until later. Glad you are going to get an agent, let them promote although we still must promote somewhat. I wanted to do something about my art is another reason I?ve paused the continuation. After completing a couple of scenes inside and a new cover, his that I am co-author, should be ready to go. Wish I hadn?t signed a contract, however. Don?t plan to for mine, named Beyond the Rough Side of this Mountain, if the publisher accepts. Thanks that we can continue to communicate and encourage regarding our books.
Comment from jesuel
what a great photo the color is great the detail is great I really like the perspective and the lettering is done very well and I like how you have framed it in fine work here
reply by the author on 03-Oct-2022
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what a great photo the color is great the detail is great I really like the perspective and the lettering is done very well and I like how you have framed it in fine work here
Comment Written 02-Oct-2022
reply by the author on 03-Oct-2022
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Thank you so much J! I don' think I have ever had a review from you... Thanks again! Is that a horse's head at the end of your review?
Comment from Sean T Phelan
That would make a great cover illustration,Daphne!
I like it!
( I'll probably finish MY book long after I'm dead! : D )
~Sean
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reply by the author on 02-Oct-2022
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That would make a great cover illustration,Daphne!
I like it!
( I'll probably finish MY book long after I'm dead! : D )
~Sean
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Comment Written 02-Oct-2022
reply by the author on 02-Oct-2022
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Ha ha ha! I know JUST what you mean!!!!
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: D
Comment from JirinaInspire
Great cover for the book that makes the ready anticipate a mysterious story that has deep emotional impact.
The description of the content is great and just become it is real life story it should read very well.
Dephne thank you for sharing.
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reply by the author on 03-Oct-2022
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Great cover for the book that makes the ready anticipate a mysterious story that has deep emotional impact.
The description of the content is great and just become it is real life story it should read very well.
Dephne thank you for sharing.
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The highest and the lowest rating are not included in calculations.
Comment Written 02-Oct-2022
reply by the author on 03-Oct-2022
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Thank you very much for your very encouraging review! Well I am in another slow editing pass. The book is written but editing and rephrasing is difficult because it is impossible to make sense of my experiences without fleshing out my secretive and delusional parents... I don't know if you might ever have seen an old war movie called, The Cain Mutiny, where the captain of a destroyer becomes paranoid and delusional. Well this captain's name was Captain Queeg. I still think "Captain Queeg Does the Ten Commandments" is the best short description I have come up for my father, lol...
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Thank you for the explanation. It must of been really difficult, yet you turned it in a beautiful artwork!