A poster and new project progress!

Leaper: Down to Earth now has a poster! :)

After getting permission to post a poster in a bookstore where I live, I got to work a couple days ago designing said poster.

Because I'm doing my best to keep this whole publishing thing as cheap as possible, I'm doing things like this poster and even the cover of the book on my own (time will tell if these were smart choices). Luckily I have a fair amount of Photoshop experience, and I've been a professional photographer for about seven years now so that helps a lot. I also happen to have some photos I took of the Milky Way while camping at Algonquin Park (it's super dark there, so great for night photos). I'm doing my best to keep everything looking as professional as possible, despite my own limitations. I'm fairly happy with how things are turning out so far, though of course it's nothing like the quality that a proper professional could have created. Nonetheless, check out the poster below!

In other news, I'm making progress on my new project idea! It's a sci-fi future city world where most people use prosthetics to augment specific skills and abilities, while also losing some of their fleshy limbs' capabilities (can't get something for nothing, know what I'm sayin?)

So far, I have a main character with an exciting back story, a cool and kinda silly prosthetic and he's got a motivation for his trajectory in the book. Getting to that motivation was tough. Sometimes I just understand where a character is coming from right from the start, but this time days of thinking about it led to nothing. Until I made use of the Sherlock method. That's what I call talking it out with someone, even if they have no clue what you mean. My wife is great at listening to my ramblings and dishing out interesting ideas that spark new ideas for me. And it totally worked! I'm super excited for where I'm at with this story idea, and I think it will be what I'll be working on alongside book two in the Leaper trilogy. I'm hoping to keep this new project shorter than the Leaper books, however. Two-hundred-and-ten-thousand words is ... a lot.

Tell me what you think of the poster, and if you have any ideas for what crazy cool things you'd like a futuristic prosthetic limb to do! (Also, if you have an idea for what to call these prosthetic limbs, something slangy and short, let me know!!!)