@Rachael Bermingham More like a re-release. I've been working on a book trailer for the Flaatphut books of late and figured it was way past time to update the covers. I've been getting better with the AI stuff, as well as tossing them into Photoshop to finish the job, so there you go. Also working on a sort of logo for the series along with the trailer. In fact, here's the latest rendition of said logo; it's sup[posed to be like one of those PI eyeballs, but traced out by the character's name then with the outline of a pistol back-dropping it; I could use some feedback/suggestions with this one.

@Rob Cole 36 books totaling some 10 million words right now (not counting ghostwriting), with a thorough outline and world notes for another new series that should come in at 10 or 11 books, once I get financially stable enough to skip the ghostwriting.

My Mom actually read about 1/3 of my maldene series from 3 feet over my shoulder while I was writing it. I'd be typing away like a maniac when suddenly i feel a presence. I briefly turn around, and there standing on the other side of my beds from where my desk was (small spaces all around at the time) my Mom straining on her tiptoes to get a peak at what I was working on. I told her that I couldn't work with someone watching, she smiled, made a clicking noise with her mouth, and went off to continue whatever she was about. Then other times, when I'd be berating myself for not being able to cokntribute financially to the household or being able to get a real job (at the time, we were all suffering through my Dad's Parkinson's Disease so money was really tight), my Mom would cut me off and say, "you DO have a job; you got two of them. You're taking care of us and you're a writer." sometimes followed by something like, "So shut up and get back to work," or words to that effect (meant lovingly). Seems se didn't like her genius son badmouthing himself. (her description of me... okay, along with about everybody who's met me).

@Rachael Bermingham the green bit is a pertinent image I screened and faded a little; an image of a death ray coming down into a jungled city, which alludes to the "Looking Glass" part of the story that Flaatphut is trying to stop. I was trying to figure out how to work it in so I came up with that sorta monitor-screen looking thing.

@Rachael Bermingham The results of my tweaking.

@Rachael Bermingham yep, right here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B007PTKI74/allbooks?_encoding=UTF8&ref_=aufs_ap_ahdr_dsk_ab&pd_rd_w=SvwUr&content-id=amzn1.sym.7e190e19-9f6f-4df8-807a-5a7608594741&pf_rd_p=7e190e19-9f6f-4df8-807a-5a7608594741&pf_rd_r=140-0229868-4994152&pd_rd_wg=ffqO1&pd_rd_r=f6920580-2f8f-4574-8c71-81f45d6671e8

@Michael Teferi The first thing mentioned in the review about how I decided to just plunge right in, yeah that was a decision on my part. I couldn't think how to build up to it, or even if I should. So I decided heck with it, I'm just diving straight into it. So I stuck all the main characters into an unnatural storm and decided to world-build as i went along; as the characters find out more about the world, so does the reader. My other strategy then was to have a cast of characters from a wide enough range of locations so that while nearly of them are strangers them and new to it all, there'd be at least one guy to go, "Oh no problem, I know the area and customs". Saves having the one stupid guy to which every that he should know has to be constantly explained so the reader knows.