{"id":5907,"date":"2012-05-17T16:48:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T21:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2012\/05\/17\/how-important-is-a-book-cover-for-your-speculative-novel\/"},"modified":"2012-05-17T16:48:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T21:48:03","slug":"how-important-is-a-book-cover-for-your-speculative-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2012\/05\/17\/how-important-is-a-book-cover-for-your-speculative-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"How Important Is A Book Cover For Your Speculative Novel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"goright\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.zondervan.com\/images\/product\/original\/9780310735076.JPG?w=150\" alt=\"Merlin's Blade Preliminary Book Cover\" title=\"Merlin's Blade Preliminary Book Cover\" \/><strong>I wrote an article over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speculativefaith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speculative Faith<\/a><\/strong> sharing a few pebbles from the things I&#8217;ve learned on my journey to signing THE MERLIN SPIRAL trilogy with Zondervan last month.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, its fun to pass on these things, and I hope all of you aspiring authors out there find it helpful.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.EpicTales.org\/images\/smilies\/icon_biggrin.gif?w=1200\" alt=\"&#58;&#68;\" class=\"middle\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.EpicTales.org\/images\/smilies\/icon_eek.gif?w=1200\" alt=\"&#56;&#124;\" class=\"middle\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.EpicTales.org\/images\/smilies\/icon_biggrin.gif?w=1200\" alt=\"&#58;&#68;\" class=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.speculativefaith.com\/2012\/05\/11\/for-writers-how-important-are-book-covers\/#comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check it out&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Views: 7<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nI wrote an article over at Speculative Faith sharing a few pebbles from the things I&#8217;ve learned on my journey&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2012\/05\/17\/how-important-is-a-book-cover-for-your-speculative-novel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;How Important Is A Book Cover For Your Speculative Novel?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,37,5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1-merlins-blade","category-marketing-ideas","category-publishers","category-zondervan","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/978031073507627.jpg?fit=399%2C600","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67v0M-1xh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}