our assignment over at the mad hatters (where i am filling in for jeff walker) is "book cover".
i had always imagined what my novel would look like when published. i had been working since forever on a story based on my parents' lives but photography got in the way so that's on the shelf right now. a lot of the members of the tribe would probably hate, disown, disinherit, or murder me if they would read what i had written so far, as there are a lot of side stories about them. some are probably somewhat perhaps distorted or mangled as my stories had been handed from relative to relative. and then of course there is the maternal and paternal camps. believe me, they both have different sides to any particular stories.
my father's cousin has written a biographical book about his american father and a lot of the truth are not accurate. but that book would be useful for when i finally sit down to finish my own novel.
when i was young, there was a saying that was taught to us in school: that if you throw a stone in the air, someone's bound to get hit. believe you me, there will be a lot of people getting hit by my big stones.
after my mother died, my father found a box underneath my bed one day i was at work. it contained snippets of stories about everyone in the clan that my mother told me when she was still alive, or things i had overheard from relatives about other relatives. he burned them. but, i remember most of what was in there and have re-written them. this novel, it will not be very pretty for anyone once i'm done writing it.
but the cover is pretty, no?
see my mad hatters' post here: almost similar but different colour -
http://365project.org/madhatters/365/2015-04-08
i etsooi'd this to death and back, both in photoshop and ribbet; started out as gray, then green, then blue then black and white and then for this one, i inverted it and this was the image that came out.
thank you for your kind views and comments; know that they are truly appreciated. i admit that i am way behind in commenting yet again. but it's a busy time at the office it being tax time and all, plus i am slowly working on my own income tax return.
