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Cover for Last Kill

7/21/2019

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The cover for Last Kill didn't come so easily.  The first segment of the plot took place during the Korean War, so I hauled out my old GI helmet and borrowed a friend's Purple Heart for an image on the back cover.  Another important part involved a Japanese Geisha house.  My publishing advisor, First Editions, came up with a pic of several Maiko (apprentice Geisha) which fit my concept, and also went to the back cover.
Then I needed to find just  the right bear for the front cover.  I didn't want a 'tourist' bear, artificially snarley and mean.  I wanted a dignified bear, surveying his territory from on high.  After searching a thousand bear images, I think I found just the right one; he is checking out the reader out on the front cover.

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Cover for CrossKill

7/21/2019

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This one wasn't so easy.  The story begins when an important personage is bushwhacked while hunting in the Talkeetna Mountains of Alaska. A picture of a man sitting on a bluff, scanning a valley, served as the basis.  A telescopic sight crosshair is superimposed on the back of his head, and gains immediate attention.
The high point (no pun intended) comes on a bridge over a deep gorge at Hurricane, Alaska.   The bridge being somewhat of a tourist attraction, it was not difficult to locate an appropriate image for the back cover.  No buxom blondes in bikinis, but a bit of an attention getter.
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