Monday, January 25, 2016

Sunday Update

Life went and took away my entire evening.  I am stressed to the hilt, and need an episode of Mannix.

So without much ado, here are the five covers I did since the previous post.  I am inordinately fond of the ruby ring.  The texture for the jewel came of a certain amount of kismet and experimentation, and now I want to do more jewel-themed covers. Maybe a jewel heist cover?


And here are three more.  I realized that they are three quite different pictures of intrigue.  The first fanciful and high adventure (which doesn't do well as a thumbnail, alas), the second could be YA or romantic suspense, the third clearly much more hard-boiled.  I think all of them, though, would benefit from a real title, and not the meaningless "Title Here." 


Now off to watch some of Season 4 of Mannix -- a season with Peggy -- a show created by the famous Levinson and Link (who created Columbo and Murder, She Wrote).  A little heart-pounding theme music by Lalo Shifrin, and hip mid-century modern credit sequence.



Oh, and as usual, here is the Linky with all the other ROW80 participants who updated today.

See you in the funny papers.

4 comments:

Elizabeth Spann Craig said...

Sorry that life hijacked your day. :( Never fun when that happens. I always have a hard time getting back on track afterwards, somehow.

The covers are great, though!

And...wow. I've never heard of Mannix and I thought I knew most of the detective shows. But, looking online, it appears I was 4 when the final episode aired...maybe they haven't been good about reruns and streaming?

The Daring Novelist said...

I don't recall about the reruns, but I do know that Mannix was one of those glaring oversights in DVD release. I met William Link at a drama festival several years ago, and I asked him "When is Mannix coming out on DVD?" He stared at me a second and then said, enthusiastically "GOOD QUESTION!" I think even he had kinda forgotten about the series, and I like to think I gave a little shove toward getting it released for video.

Hmmm, maybe I'll do Mannix for a friday favorite...

Beth Camp said...

Just saying hello from A Round of Words for 80 Days. Glad you are participating -- even if Sunday night was snatched away. Who can complain about inspirational tv shows, though? And I love the creativity in your book covers -- and irrepressible spirit. May the coming week give you lots of writing time!

The Daring Novelist said...

Thanks Beth!