If you've downloaded a Kindle Edition of the book and see that the cover has changed, worry not! The book has not changed.

My original intention for the cover was to leverage black and white Chinese-style watercolor and keep things stark and minimalist, and that's still the vision for the paperback, but unfortunately that minimalist vision does not show up well on the Kindle app at all. One of my readers let me know it was hard to see the title and that it looked "out of place" among other...

Tomorrow my first put-in-the-public-eye brainchild will finally be available for sale on Amazon, and let me tell you—I'm feeling almost as expectant as I did when my children were due. Unlike with them, of course, the book release will actually happen on the date expected, not two weeks later. The process for a book to come into the world is also less strenuous, although not by much (from a certain viewpoint, anyway). Endless editing, proofing, cutting scenes, adding scenes, second-guessing...