Raining

My plans for this afternoon included uploading the cover art for Mindscan to Wolfcamera's online print shop, and then walking around to the local bricks-n-mortar in an hour or so to pick up the prints and get A Current Official Identity Photo that I need for some unconnected paperwork due on Friday morning. Then I was going to cycle up to the local craft shop and peruse the cross-stitch bookmark kits, as I've realised that I can indulge my addiction^Whobby without guilt if I use the results as giveaways to entice victims to my announcements list. This programme would achieve many useful things, not least of which is getting some exercise.

Just as I was making my lunch, it started chucking it down with rain. It looks as if it has set in for the afternoon. Bah humbug.

Mindscan prints have been achieved

It's stopped raining, so I nipped round to the camera shop. The cover art for Mindscan is seriously, seriously yummy as a 6x4 photographic print. This is done from a much higher resolution file than the one used on the website, so I can probably get away with doing it at a larger scale as well.

I didn't have hi-res files for the covers for Promises To Keep and The Syndicate: Four Leaf Clover, and the PTK cover prints at as barely passable at 6x4, while TS:4LC really isn't good enough. So I'll have to scratch those from the cover prints offered as reader prizes, although PTK should be all right for a dealer's table display.

I'd also fiddled with the series montage for The Syndicate - if you look at the first three covers, you'll see that they make up a single picture, and there's a version of that picture used for some of the Loose Id merchandise. In particular, there is a rather nifty mug and a bumper sticker in the CafePress store. I wanted a decent print of this to use for the dealer's table at Redemption, but it turned out that the website print shop crops rather than shrinking to fit. So I had to add white space to make it fit exactly into an 8x6 print. I've now got an 8x4"print with a one inch blue border top and bottom, and am debating whether to crop it or use it as is.

And I've started working on Spindrift again, although 850 words yesterday and 550 words so far today is not exactly rapid progress given that I have this story plotted out fairly thoroughly. I'm still slightly fuzzy, which isn't helping my concentration.