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This is by far the biggest change. My little family (my husband Chris and our creamsicle cat Paul) started the year with a big cross-country move from my beloved home in Washington State to the dense forests in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. This was hard, for many reasons. Stress of physically moving aside, I left behind my family, friends, and a place I resonate with deeply. 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I cannot even remember when I made this cover. The file properties say 2018, but that could have just been from importing over into a newer computer. I want to say LISHKA had not even been finished when I made this mock up using Microsoft Word (my go-to for all my little cover ideas). At some point, my idea of the cover shifted away from the blade to the mage’s mark, but when I created this cover I had no idea what the mage’s mark even looked like (that came much later when an editor asked me about this symbol and thus pushed me to put some thought into it). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63b8d5b7e1df667db1d7e8db/5754f58a-80d8-46d2-bf60-3f905df125d5/Book+Jacket2.png Updates - Looking Back at Creating Lishka - A little closer… This cover starts to get a little closer to what the final would be. This mockup was actually created by my sister. We had been emailing back and forth while at work talking about LISHKA, and she sent me back this mockup. This made me super excited, because she laid it out like a real book, spine and everything! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63b8d5b7e1df667db1d7e8db/01709cdd-88e1-48a8-8a1b-a8d9969e2db9/The+First+Mage%27s+Mark.JPEG Updates - Looking Back at Creating Lishka - The mage’s mark came to life in a sketch pad. She drew a page full of ideas lying on the floor in our TV den, while our husbands played video games. Mixed in with various circle/line sketches, the mage’s mark emerged. Pictured here is the very first drawing ever of the mage’s mark. As soon as I saw it, I realized that it perfectly matched what I had vaguely imagined when writing the book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63b8d5b7e1df667db1d7e8db/2623d8d0-e7a4-48fd-a220-34ad24c549bd/POYB4528.JPG Updates - Looking Back at Creating Lishka - My sister read the first hard copy on the NYC Subway. I gave the bound book to my sister, who read it on her then-commute on the New York City subway. One of the best praises I’ve received is when she almost missed her subway stop because she was so engrossed in the book. After awhile, half of the binder broke off. 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