Sadie's War Cover art

As an independent author I have to take on all of the costs that the big boy publishers do for their authors.  Now, I'm not a rich woman.  I'm hardly middle class.  So, with a tight budget, it sometimes seems like I won't be able to afford to self-publish.  Especially after my last post about overhead.

So, I've decided to try and do as much as I can myself.  This isn't unusual.  However, I felt convinced that I needed to hire someone to edit and for cover art.  Well, I have a friend helping with editing for the price of a tattoo drawing and another friend who I am giving reiki to for editing as well.  But, when it came to the art I had to do it myself.

I've learned some things about photoshop over the years, but I never learned enough to be considered 'good' at photo manipulation.  Most covers these days are done with the use of several stock photos blended together in photoshop to create amazing artwork.  For a while now I've been teaching myself a lot of the same techniques used by the professionals.

Now, while I don't consider myself skilled or knowlegeable enough to be considered an expert in this field, I do think I did pretty well for Sadie's War.  Feel free to tell me what you think.  :)



In case you're wondering this took about 3 hours to do, not counting the amount of time looking for the right stock photos to use.

EDIT: Here's an updated version...