Fuel For The Fire
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Cover-Image Symbols
My protagonist (main character), Janisa Clark, is a fair skinned woman with African American and Caucasian ancestry.
I used a photograph of Cymone, my granddaughter, as the center cover image of the photo collage.
CLICK HERE FOR directions for re-creating Cymone as a Colored Pencil Drawing using a Photoshop Filter..
The brick building in the upper right was taken in Middletown, Connecticut and represents the Clarks' home.
The story begins in what I call The City. I actually lived just outside Hartford, Connecticut and worked in the city when I began writing FUEL FOR THE FIRE. At that time much of the city was in the process of urban renewal, and Janisa and her husband, Dr. Jeremy Clark, live in a graciously restored brick apartment complex.
The barn cover image in the bottom left corner represents the occult commune. The photograph was taken on Cape Cod, Massachusetts where I lived for 19 years.
The child represents the Clarks' kidnapped daughter, Lora.
Because she is a child, I have intentionally masked her identity. I tilted her slightly to emphasize her distress.
The young black man in the bottom right corner can represent either Janisa's gang-banger, brother, Cat; or her husband. I used that photo because the subject looked as though he was going somewhere, and both Cat and Jeremy were looking for Lora.
The photo was taken of a guest musician at a concert. Again I have made his visage intentionally vague.
The cover image of the spider represents international intrigue as well as the twists and turns in both the search for Lora and the search for why she was kidnapped. I reduced the opacity on the spider until it is almost invisible - also representative of the hidden plot.
The silk spider photo was taken on Atsena Otie Island offshore from Cedar Key, Florida. The spider was in a huge web along the path that allows you to explore that uninhabited island.
The flaming image symbols represent the escalating events leading to world catastrophe juxtapositioned with the Clark's tragedy. A huge painting is central to an international conspiracy.
I think I took the flames from a stock photo, but then overlaid at least one more layer, and erased, cut and dodged until I had the effect I was seeking.
After uploading the cover to Kindle, I wasn't satisfied that the various elements were visible enough, so I selectively erased, changed opacity, burned and dodged the flames, the people and buildings and then uploaded again. In my page, Photoshop Layers, I follow up this explanation of the image symbols by presenting step by step illustrations of how I created the cover images.
FUEL FOR THE FIRE may be previewed and purchased at www.fuelforthefire.net or through either Amazon or Barnes & Noble as an e-book or in print.
I used a photograph of Cymone, my granddaughter, as the center cover image of the photo collage.
CLICK HERE FOR directions for re-creating Cymone as a Colored Pencil Drawing using a Photoshop Filter..
The brick building in the upper right was taken in Middletown, Connecticut and represents the Clarks' home.
The story begins in what I call The City. I actually lived just outside Hartford, Connecticut and worked in the city when I began writing FUEL FOR THE FIRE. At that time much of the city was in the process of urban renewal, and Janisa and her husband, Dr. Jeremy Clark, live in a graciously restored brick apartment complex.
The barn cover image in the bottom left corner represents the occult commune. The photograph was taken on Cape Cod, Massachusetts where I lived for 19 years.
The child represents the Clarks' kidnapped daughter, Lora.
Because she is a child, I have intentionally masked her identity. I tilted her slightly to emphasize her distress.
The young black man in the bottom right corner can represent either Janisa's gang-banger, brother, Cat; or her husband. I used that photo because the subject looked as though he was going somewhere, and both Cat and Jeremy were looking for Lora.
The photo was taken of a guest musician at a concert. Again I have made his visage intentionally vague.
The cover image of the spider represents international intrigue as well as the twists and turns in both the search for Lora and the search for why she was kidnapped. I reduced the opacity on the spider until it is almost invisible - also representative of the hidden plot.
The silk spider photo was taken on Atsena Otie Island offshore from Cedar Key, Florida. The spider was in a huge web along the path that allows you to explore that uninhabited island.
The flaming image symbols represent the escalating events leading to world catastrophe juxtapositioned with the Clark's tragedy. A huge painting is central to an international conspiracy.
I think I took the flames from a stock photo, but then overlaid at least one more layer, and erased, cut and dodged until I had the effect I was seeking.
After uploading the cover to Kindle, I wasn't satisfied that the various elements were visible enough, so I selectively erased, changed opacity, burned and dodged the flames, the people and buildings and then uploaded again. In my page, Photoshop Layers, I follow up this explanation of the image symbols by presenting step by step illustrations of how I created the cover images.
FUEL FOR THE FIRE may be previewed and purchased at www.fuelforthefire.net or through either Amazon or Barnes & Noble as an e-book or in print.