My First Short Novel

Hello all.
Well, so to day, I´ve been busy with printing and binding some of the books that I´ve written. It´s a hundred pages novel about a girl who finds a phoenix in her garden and decides to raise it. here. I´ll show you some pictures.

 

So... initially I started with a whole different cover, but it just wasn´t right for me. that´s what I thougt at least. 

 

It´s got only Carol, the girl who finds the Phoenix, and the Phoenix in it, but she is not the only main character, and so I decided to make something else. In which the three birds, the Phoenix, the owl and the raven where the main characters of the painting. the Three birds represent the three main characters: Carol, Jim and Christine. Also, Christine tells the story from her point of view. So I thought, not including her in this, is like discrimination. So I drew this on my computer:

And I started copying it onto watercolour paper. but it seemed still a bit dull, so I thougt I'd include four more characters: the main characters themselves, and the Queen of the Faeries, Florafauna. 

 

And this is what came out. I'm really glad how the colours came out, they look so livid. Someone said to me on DeviantArt that it was like an explosion, and I take that as a compliment. thanks a lot for that. I wanted to make something interesting to watch, and I think this one does the job more than the other does. Stain won't be coming out of his helworld now. I think... *Stain, or Steen in Dutch, is the god of the underworld in the world of Phann*

And that's the full cover. See I've still included Carol and the phoenix on the backside. It kind of did fitted in there, but only as small as that.

The books are for sale from Friday the 20th. Each copy costs €15,- and are currently only in Dutch.


If you want to order one for yourself, feel free to e-mail me at: marije.ddnk@gmail.com