Christa Charter's Be Your Own Publisher Christa Charter published her first Lexy Cooper mystery, Schooled, in 2012, and the world of game development has never been the same, as gaming insiders speculated about the origins of Christa's good guys, bad guys, and murder victims. She followed it over the next 15 months with Pwned and Griefed, all published by Missing Spoon Publishing, Christa's publishing imprint.
In addition to “Videogames, Sex, and Murder” the Lexy Cooper mysteries offer up enough authenticity about the games industry to make the books special favorites of readers who work in the world of games. You can find out more about Lexy and her world at LexyCooper.com.
Recently Christa talked to Zone 1 about a cover for her new nonfiction book, B.Y.O.P. - Be Your Own Publisher She provided a sketch of a concept, and I started work.
In addition to “Videogames, Sex, and Murder” the Lexy Cooper mysteries offer up enough authenticity about the games industry to make the books special favorites of readers who work in the world of games. You can find out more about Lexy and her world at LexyCooper.com.
Recently Christa talked to Zone 1 about a cover for her new nonfiction book, B.Y.O.P. - Be Your Own Publisher She provided a sketch of a concept, and I started work.
The Lexy books feature really fabulous covers by Brett Parson. I wanted to echo the appeal of those covers while staying true to the simplicity of Christa’s original concept.
I started with the warm, exciting colors from Brett’s covers; they're spicy and appealing, really stand out on a retailer’s page, and they would help tie in this book’s cover with the fiction covers. I used a background red from Griefed and the gold of the lettering on Pwned as my basic colors. I chose Komika, a comics-inspired typeface, and paired it with Allura, a lovely, readable modern script. I liked Christa’s paper scraps idea—possibly because it looks a lot like the top of my desk—so with a lot of fussing and fiddling over the details (the angle of the large paper scrap precisely matches the angle of the title frames on the Lexy covers, for instance), I combined the paper scraps, colors, and typefaces into a final cover.
B.Y.O.P. is available today on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.com.au, and all Amazon stores for $1.49 or the local equivalent. While you're at it, remember to check out the Lexy Cooper mysteries, Schooled, Pwned , and Griefed.
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