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The text on the back cover is the "All the World's a Stage" speech from the play "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare. I may not have mentioned it elsewhere, but the monarch butterfly in the "logo" of Chaotic Terrain Press is feeding on zinnias in our garden, our vegetable garden of the fall of 2016. I grow three types of milkweed on our modest gentleman's farm we call Windfall, and raise monarchs in our house. The photo captures the butterfly in motion.
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The final version of the cover, in black and white. There's a lot of meaning to this cover image. You'll have to read the book and study the interior photographs to discover what and why. All the photos in the novel are actual location shots, or at least of places that served as models for the writing. Those are real places, transposed into the story's geography.
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This is the final cover of Universal Man 1/Graceful Runner. For a long time I had it in color and then later it just seemed to create a better mood and unify the three volumes in my black & white experiments. Note how the background image shows through on the back cover, and there it is still in color. I thought this a nice touch.
In the electronic Kindle version, which includes color photographs of location shots or of places that guided me in the writing. Order it HERE. The print version should be available in a week from now. If you order the paperback, the Kindle version comes with it for free.
The link to the novel's Amazon page is HERE.
My novel Universal Man will SOON be back in print. I plan to have the first volume, Graceful Runner available no later than January 22nd. Then, The Chinook Assembly will be available by Ash Wednesday. Lastly, Then a Soldier, will be available by Easter. One feature in this new, second edition will be a number of original black & white photographs of story locations. See the new cover!
