I’m swimming-with-mermaids delighted to reveal the cover of my next solarpunk mystery novel, Missing Mermaid. Right now I’m deciding how best to arrange the text on the cover. Do you recommend option one (author name on her tail) or option two (author name and title both up in the sky)?

The illustration is by Nell Fallcard. You can order the ebook, internationally, on the indie site Smashwords after its release on May 24th. You can preorder the book on Amazon. The paperback will come later on Barnes and Noble.

  • Okay well I think your just wrong. Hell, even the law thinks your wrong. Using art as reference can be dangerous if your work is not meaningfully different and you pass it off as your own. Scott Cawthon got into trouble a few years back after one of his hired artists used a fanart model of a version of one or the characters as reference for a promotional piece.