Jane—The Early Years

I recently decided to publish the prequel to Jane that I had written about earlier, under the name Jane—The Early Years.  This should make my one (documented) fan happy!  It is not a sequel, as desired, but still, it tells you a lot about Jane, and how matters came to be.

I had a great old time putting a good cover together; in the end, I used a representation of Scorpia, Jane's alter ego, a personality invented by Jane and Co. who appears at Metal Fetish gatherings, in a mask, and goes about being a wise guy.  (Scorpia reappears in the continuation of Jane, after she meets Lisa Love, who persuades her to make a feature film.  This part has not been written yet; I suspect that it will be two parts, actually.  The first will be a protracted holiday in Canada, and the second part will be Jane acting her part as Scorpia, until Lisa finds out who's behind the mask.)

The cover is at right.  I imagined that the mask would be much more opaque, and cover up most of Jane's face, but that would have looked horrible on the cover of a book, so I used this sort of "wrought iron" filigree mask instead.

Unlike Jane, The Early Years is not free; but it is priced at about $2, and I'm hoping it will sell well.  I have only sold a total of 19 books, which makes me hardly an author at all.  Please go out and buy the book you all; it goes on sale on Saturday.

Kay.

[Added later:  I don't think I will ever succeed in designing a cover more attractive and more appropriate than this one on the right, for Early Years.  It is colorful --perhaps painfully so, to the taste of some-- and unfortunately it depicts one of two possible scenes that would be perfect covers.  I wish there were similar scenes in the other books!  I mean, there are, but I just can't pull them off with the resources I have.]